Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-10-26 00:00:00

THE NORTHERN TIMES. -LIVERPOOL, MONDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1857.

opinions on the insurrection in India, at the annual
meeting of the CoHingham Farmers' Club. He
evidently takes the side of humanity and justice ;
and at the Cherteey agricultural dinner, Mr.
Drummond delivered a political speech. The hon.
aentlernac deprecated the vengeance cry, attacked
Cardinal Wiseman and Archbishop Cullen, ex-
pressed his distrust of the French Emperor, and
warned the country against neglecting home
defences.

away with the bulk and anticipate the balance o
this doomed 1,500,0001. Should these delicate
operations take so long a time, we %hall have no
rate until 1860 ; but if they can be accomplished
in one-half that period, then we shall have local
taxation in its worst and most dreaded farm. If,
in the meantime, we can get the return of the
Corporation's Estates,moved for by Mr. ROBERTSON
GLADSTONE many months ago, the Burgesses
may be spared the infliction of a rate. But when
we shall really get this precious document
remains for the independent electors of the
Corporate Wards to decide at the coming election.
To redeem the Dock Estate, and put the
Burgesses in possession of their municipal
property, are the very reasonable objects of those
who oppose the return of gentlemen who
sat in the Council while the former was being
plunged into irredeemable indebtedness, and the
other was slyly kept as a nest egg, and as far out
of sight of their constituents as possible. For
this work, we repeat, new and vigourous hands
must be found. If the Corruptionists will go on
dock jobbing, and will not wait until the Birken-
head Docks are finished before they commence
jobbing on the. North Shore dock extension, we
want men in the Council who will go before
Parliament and oppose the jobbers in their
corporate capacity. Again, if the Immoveables
will not supply the Burgesses with a rental of
their estate within a reasonable time, we want
men in the Council who will seek some legal
means of compelling them to supply that
which common honesty demands. And if an
attempt should be made to levy a rate on the
Borough before the Burgesses are allowed to
know the extent and value of their estate, we
shall want men who will apply for an injunction
to stop them until they give the information the
inhabitants have so long sought in vain.

There has just been issued a parliamentary pa-
per, giving the detailed military and naval expen-
diture for the year ending in March, 1856. The
total amount expended in the naval, commissariat,
militia, and army departments was, in round num-
bers, 40,800,0001. In many items there is an excess
of expenditure over the votes of the House of
Commons.

There will be a Winter Assizes this year for
general gaol delivery in the larger counties, and
where the greatest number of prisoners are to be
found. These assizes will be held for criminal
trials only, as they have been for two or three years
past. The plan of the commissioners for a general
winter assizes must receive the sanction of Parlia-
ment before it is permanently adopted.
The new Court for Divorce and probate will not
be constituted until there is an order of the 'Queen
in Council, which will enable her Majesty to fix'
the opening of the court for business at any time
after the Ist of January next.. The rules to be
framed for the conduct of the judicial business of
the court will be of the greatest importance, and
will be looked for with much anxiety.
Vice-Admiral Sir Maurice Berkeley bas resigned
his post of first naval Lord of the Admiralty and
will, it is currently reported, be raised to the
peerage prior to the meeting of Parliament. In
anticipation of this vacancy the seat at the
Admiralty Boaa d was some time since offered to
Sir G. Brooke Pechell, Bart., M.P., for Brighton,
but he declined the honour, preferring to remain
an independent member of the House of Commons.
There is now a rumour that Sir Maurice Berkeley
will be succeeded by Admiral Sir Barrington
Reynolds, who is at present stationed at Ply-
mouth.

The Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol is earning
golden opinions by d scarding red-tapeism in his
diocese. At his re,-.ent " visitation," he dispensed
with the USUAL services, substituting for it " free
discussion with the clergy." Above all, instead of
sending his reverend brethren '' away fasting," he
provided them with a good dinner. A bishop
should be " given to hospitality ; and, unless in.s
are wrongly informed, this Gloucestershire
hint is not unnecessary. In administering
the right of confirmation, he also proposes some
salutary changes. Instead of gathering the young
people in crowds from -distant parishes, he will
meet them on Sundays, in their own nei,gtfbour-
hoods. With a faint touch of apostolic simplicity.
the Bishop says: "The only objection. to this
plan is that I should have to tax the hospitality of
the clergyman or one of his neighbours, by be-
coming their guest from the `'aturtley evening to
the Monday morning. But I trust that the ob-
jection will •be lessened when I assure them that
the pleasure of my visit will be increased, and
that I shall be relieved from the feeling that my
presence is a burden to them, if they will but
vceive M 3 in the same homely way in which they
would entertain any brother clergymen."
The telegraph brings a brief statement of a fatal
shipwreck on the sands off Great Yarmouth. In
the gale early on Friday morning, the Ontario, a
vessel belonging to Shields, went on the sands,
and all on board, save one man, were drowned.
twenty-three lives have been lost by this catas-
trophe. It is also reported that another vesse
went down during the gale which prevailed on
Thursday night, with all hands lost.
The Foreign news this morning is rot of much
importance. Respecting the dispute beween
Denmark and the Duchies, communications from
Copenhagen hold out hopes of its settlement, by
Denmark giving her German subjects an equal
representation in the common representative body.
We learn by telegraph from Berlin, that the King
of Prussia was sufficiently recovered on Saturday,
to consent to the appoint next of the Prince of
Prussia as Regent of the Kingdom, with full powers
for three months.

The Water and Gas Supply are also questions
which will never be settled to the satisfaction of
the Ratepayers, if they neglect to strengthen the
ranks of the few independent men who -have
opposed the jobbers on these subjects. Cockney
engineering may possibly inundate the flats of
Laneashire, and so save us from any further dan-
ger of being poisoned by the Pike filth; but,
unless the failure of strong hallucinations in
hydraulics, arid a sufficient supply of cheap light
be obtained from the moon and stars, we must
send men into the Council who will hear of no
compromise until the town is plentifully supplied
with the pure water we have at hand, and the in-
dustrious poor are supplied with good gas at as
cheap a rate as it can be bad in other large towns.
And what, we would ask, have any of these

vitally important subjects to do with politics ?

While Corruptionists dub themselves ‘• Tories,"
we are constrained to call those candidates who
come forward to oppose their habitual jobbery,
"Liberals." The Corporate "rose by any other
name would smell as sweet." Give us, par
excellence, Mr. So-and-so_ with f"
" upright man"—" a shipowner"—" merchant"
respectable and independent tradesman"—
" Dock ratepayer," with' the simple addition of
"an enlightened and liberal-minded man."
Where gentlemen possessing any of these recom-
mendations have been tried, and found wanting,
as their votes will prove, they can scarcely expect
to receive the support of the municipal electors.
No tinge of politics or sectarianism can give them
a claim to that which good common sense
and unflinching honesty of purpose alone can
entitle them to ask. Let us, then, once more,
hope that the Burgesses will- ponder well
over the magnitude of the Corporate business
at present on hand, and that they will use the
approaching election, as a means of giving the
jobbing majority in the Council a practical proof
of their disapproval of the past management of
the funds, and public business of the Borough
generally.
In St. Peter's, and some of the other Wards,
the Liberal voters are making unceasing' exertions
to secure the return of the popular candidates,
and sanguine hopes of success are entertained;
but much faith must not be placed on appear-
ances. The canvasses must be kept up with the
utmost activity and determination 'not to be van-
quished. The stake the Burgesses have in the
future good government of-. the Borough is
immense. There are great wrongs to be re-
paired, and future burdens of injustice to be
resisted. Back-sliders, and mere wordy partisans
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are not the men to be intrusted with such 4. task.
A wag was heard to ask a few days since—" why
the Liverpool Corporation were all cousins," To
which a bystander replied—‘` because- they have.
Uncles' in the Council." What these
" Uncles" really are, matters but little. The
cousin-ship, whatever it may be, is what the
enlightened pcirtion of the inhabitants wish to
see broken up, and new and unbiassed men
sent into the Council—men who will show more
regard for their relatives outside the Council
Chamber than for those they may find within its
walls. Finally, then, we again urge the friends of
Corporate economy and good local self-govern-
ment to renewed exertion in the good and great
cause, remembering that all the sins of prodi-
gality must fall on that commerce without which
Liverpocil would be reduced to the level of third
or foarth-class town. .•

A Lyonsjournal, in announcing the arrival in that
states th,lt, the object of his mission there is to
announce.to the Pope, in the name of the Burmese
P.lnaperor, that the Catholic missions will not only
be toterated,but even encouraged and aided througl3-
..,nt the dominions of the Burman empire. -General
d'Orgoni's adopted sovereign has, it appears,
not only built public schools, but. has allotted
funds for the endowment of European profeSsors.
He also proposes to found a Catholic hospital, to
be managed by sisters of charity, and has promised
to build ohurshes wherever a congregation may be
found desirous to have them. With such a pro-
gramme General d'Ory,oni may \yell ask any favour
of the Popc, and preface. his demands with the
wards Ego et Rex 2i39.t5.
letter frsnt Constantinople stales that the
Porte considers that treaties have been violated by
the recent appearance o, a Russian ship,of-war,
near itusehuelf, and itlias accordingly demanded
explanations from the RasSian ambassador at
Constantinople.
The British and -North American Royal Mail
Steam-ship Canada, Captain Cling, sailed on Satur-
day for Boston, via .Al3lifax, • .carrying out 161
passengers, including lien.. Carl Form is, and the
usual United States and 'British North American
mails. She also took out specie to the amount of
:2211,000 sterling.

THE Burgesses of Liverpool are beginning to
open their eyes. They find that their senses
have deceived them for many years. Every
spef.,ie-s of clap-trap has Wen resorted to, to keep
them .herded together in litt!e groups of confiding
and generous believers.' There is a euliniaating
point, however, in a career of error, which
cannot be escaped. It must be encountered,
and the 1:4000,000/. of Dock and Corporation
debts, present and prospective, is .our great
municipal' difficulty, Special apologists say
that, " the great bulk of this debt has been very
cleverly thrown on the commerce of the port of
Liverpool, and not on the town. Manchester .
will have ;o pay the ii•m's share of the old and
new charges her Towo Dues abolitionist.. have
caused to be created and thrown on the trade of
the Mersey." We were the first to make this
very interesting and. important discovery, • and.
we must therefore admit that it is quite true.
But what, we would ask. is to become of Liver-
pool• if we scare away the commerce of our port
lacy encouraging interminable prodigality and
squandering away of money- by the Corruptionist
side of the Corporation ? The advent of a
municipal election is a fit time for those who are
responsible for their votes, to weigh these matters
carefully: The object of all who seek to send
new' men into the Council, is to alter the prodigal
course which has led to such a monstrous ac-
cumulation of local debts, and they ask the
Burg szes to help them in the necessary work of
Corporate Reform, without reference to politics.
To wipe away all the consequences of past follies
is impossible, but there are dangers leo- ming in
the future which may be guarded agdiu.st: As
long as the Town Dues compensation fund lasts
we shall not, in all probability, hear a whisper of
a Borough rate. It may take two years to make

slow in appreciating. After a remark from Mr.
GRAVES, to the effect that he hoped as much of
the well water as could be pumped into the
mains was being supplied to the inhabitants, and
a reply in the affirmative from the engineer, the
meeting terminated, not a word being said which
could indicate the future policy of the Committee,
or rather of the individual members thereof.
Probably, under the peculiar circumstances in
which they find themselves placed, this was the
most discreet course which could have been
pursued. For our own part, we have no desire
to prolong this most unpleasant, if not unprofit-
able, discussion, but we cannot permit the
ljesuitical resolutions of the Water Committee,
sanctioned as they were at the last Council
meeting, to lull the inhabitants into the belief
that they were ever intended for anything save a
mere blind to serve the purposes of Pikeists. At
the first blush the resolutions in question appear
straightforward and above board. If the Com-
mittee order their engineer to supply all the
spring water which is available, it may be asked,
with some show of reason, what more can ,they
do ? or what more would the advocates of the
home supply have them to do under the circum-
stances ? Now we, who happen to be too well
conversant with the mysteries of Pike legerdemain,
are not to be imposed on by this flimsey piece
of jugglery. If the Water Committee had
ordered an immediate return to the home supply,
and, in the event of that proving inadequate to
the requirements of the town, that means should
instantly be taken to increase the same, we should
then have given the Committee credit for sincerity
of purpose. But we here repeat our conviction,
so often previously expressed, that the well
supply, if honestly given to the inhabitants, is
even at present ample for every purpose. Have
we not the admission of the Water Committee
that the wells in the aggregate yield 4-5,000,000
gallons of water per diem. This of itself is equal
to a supply of sixteen gallons per head per diem
for each inhabitant young and old in the Bo-
rough, allowing the population to number
400,000. This of itself is more, much more,
than ample for every purpose. But what be-
comes of this supply ? We will give one instance
of the manner in which this extraordinary
quantity of water, said to be necessary for the
supply of the town, is disposed of—and as the
facts are known to more than one member of the
Water Committee, if our statement is in any
way exaggerated, it will be an easy matter to
put the public right. In one establishment, not
I a hundred miles from Riehmond Row, we were
shown receptacles for the supply of water.
These consists of casks containing upwards of

200 gallons, ample for a. week's supply ; since,
however, the Pike bog-wash has been supplied,
it has been.neeessary to-empty these every morn-
ing; not only so, but the taps are kept running for
hours together, in the vain hope of getting rid of
thf! In Cant 0... bc, doubt, LILAC In
this one establishment some thousands of gallons
of water are daily wasted. We instance this
only as an illustration of what is daily occurring
in scores—aye, we May safely say in hundreds—
of places throughout the Borough. Small won-
der, then, that eighty millions of gallons of water
were got rid of weekly during the past
summer. Why, it follows that had that been
doubled, or even quadrupled, the supply would
still have proved inadequate to the demand.
With some hundreds of taps in the lower levels
running constantly into the sewers, it would only
be an act of madness to attempt to assign any
limit to the quantity of water which could thus
be got rid of. But we would ask, is this an
honest mode of supplying water ? assuredly not
—it only proves, if proving were necessary, the
total absence of all proper surveillance in regard
to the water distribution. BY; there can be no
good reason, why this state of things should be
suffered to endure—let the well water be once
restored to the inhabitants in its original purity,
and let all be appealed to, to guard against waste
such as we have described, and we venture to
predict, that the present supply would prove
ample for ;dl purposes. •
But, in the interim, why should not the Water
authorities apply themselves to the extension of
the home supply ? One and all admit that the
Rivington bog-wash is totally unfit for human
use. The most unscrupulous partisans of the
scheme acknowledge such, but in order to escape
as far as possible from public odium, they cling
to the fallacy that some magical system of filtra-
tion may yet be discovered to make it pass mus-
,
ter. But while these emperical experiments are
being made, we would fain hope that the oppo-
nents of the scheme will not relax in their efforts
to augment the supply from the wells. To Mr.
Alderman .BENNETf perseverance, the town are
mainly indebted for the supplementary engine at
Green-lane, which added so largely to the supply
from the wells during the summer of 1856. Let
it be borne in mind that, by a trifling outlay at
the Green-lane Station alone, the yield has been
raised from its. original of one-and-a-quartek.mil-
lions to three-and-a-quarter millions of gallons
per diem ; and that the actual cost of boring for
this largely augmented supply did not exceed one
hundred pounds. With the experience of the
past to guide us, who can doubt that, by a very
small expenditure in the judicious extension of

AT the meeting of the Water CComittee, on the existing works, that a very great increase
Saturday last, the business transacted wus purely could be procured from these Works before the
of a routine character. The usual compNrnents end of next spring. But so long as the Water
of the season being duly passed to the Chairman Committee and the Council suffer themselves to
and Deputy-Chairman for, their very valuahle be deluded by a parcel of visionaries, who, in the
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services during their year of office—services ' plenitude of their ignorance, pretend that the y
which, we fear, the general public will be rather can perform impossibilities, so long will the pub-

lic be baulked of their just rights, and made the
sport of those interested persons who flourish by
their misfortunes .

1 TIE LAST OVERLAND MAIL:-It will be recollected
that the last Bombay mail arrived at Suez on the 2nd inst.,
three days before the Calcutta mail. Great efforts were
made to convey this mail rapidly through Egypt, but
owing to the obstacles thrown in the way by the Egyptian
authorities, a considerable delay took place. In conse-
quence of this delay there was only just time to put the
mail on board her Majesty's ship Caradoc, waiting at
Alexandria for the Siamese Princes. The conduct of the
Egyptian authorities is to be brought to the notice of the
English Government. The Pacha of Egypt happened to
be at Suez when the Bombay mail arrived there. As it
happened the Calcutta news arrived in England via
Trieste almost as soon as the Bombay news arrived via
Cagliari, and the Calcutta and Bombay mails reached
Marseilles nearly together. A considerable saving of
time might have been effected if a steamer had been
ready at Alexandria on the 3rd inst., to start far Malta
and Cagliari, and the Bombay mail had not been delayed
in Egypt.

LIVERPIOL DOCK TRUST.—We adverted a few days
since to the formation of the new Mersey Conservancy
Board, and the importance of the subject is a sufficient
apology to our reacbra for again bringing it before
them. After the successful efforts of our citizens, in the
reform of the control of the Liverpool decks, it would
not do, at the moment when the result of those efforts is
about to be accomplished, to watch silently the election
of members for the new constituted board, who will have
under their care so extended a property, in which are
interested not only the bondholders in the vast debt, and
the inhabitants of Liverpool, but also the commercial
interests of this city. It is understood to be the intention
of the dock ratepayers is Liverpool to endeavour to elect
into the new trust all the members of the present dock
committee. To this course we would offer no opposition,
as the committee is composed of gentlemen eminently
qualified, both by their experience and commercial
standing, to superintend the dock estate ; but as the new
board will require more members to compose it than are
required under the present arrangement, let us hope that
in the selection of the new members some attention will
be given to the export trade, a trade the largest of all
others in the port, one that is entirely unprecedented
at present ; and we trust that this state of things will
last no longer, but that we shall see at the new board
some members connected with this branch of commerce,
who will, in a measure, be the representatives of the
manufacturing districts that use Liverpool as their ship-
ping port, and which ought ere this to have had a voice
in a trust that may be almost called a national one, to
which they are the largest contributors. Manchester
Examiner.