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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-01-10 00:00:00

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SATORDAY, JALVUARY 10, 1857.

THE DAY'S NEWS

The weather has been very unsettled for more
than a week, and our accounts both from sea and
on land, are, we regret to say, full of disasters. In
addition to the reports which we have already
published, it is our painful duty to record the
wreck of the Boadicea, with the loss of nine lives.
The account of this disaster comes from Guernsey,
under date of January 6. We give the particulars
in another column. Accounts from Malta mention
that there had been a terrific storm at that place
on the Ist inst. The shipping in the harbour had
suffered severely from being knocked about the
piers

- Death has again been busy with the House of
Commons. Sir Edmund Filmer, who has repro
rented West Kent on Conservative principles since
1838, has paid the great debt of nature. With regard
to the other vacant seats, Southampton and Green-
wich. the canvass for each is keenly kept up, but Gen.
Sir William Codrington does not appear to improve
his position at the latter place. His antipathy
to the ballot is sadly against his chances of success.
One of our London cotemporaries, alluding to the
matter, remarks :—" General Codrington has been
quite as unfortunate at Woolwich as he has been
at Greenwich. Woolwich is a military town.
and the General, it might have been expected,
would have become a great favourite with
the electors, all the more so as he happens
to be a candidate whom the Government

wish to succeed. But after hearing his speech,
and asking him some questions, the good people of
Woolwich carried a motion against him, and this
was followed by another in favour of the Vote by
Ballot. The General, we have only to add, once
more retreated—in fact, he seems to have fled from
his enemies in the most ungallant way." The
contest will, no doubt, be a severe one, for it is
said that the General is the favourite candidate of

the Government At Southampton, the split in the
Liberal camp continues, and it is expected that the
Conservative candidate, Sir Edward Butler, will
slip in.
There seems to be no end to the law proceedings
of the Paula, the Robsons. and the Redpaths.
Long examinations and discussions continue, as

muck so as if their frauds had only been committed
in order to afford employment for the lawyers. The
Central Criminal Court will be very much occupied
nest week in the final work of judging some of our
first-class scoundrels. A special session has been
appointed for the purpose. We perceive that the
affairs of the Royal British Bank have again been
before the B Inkruptcy Court, when the fiat issued
against Mr. H Brown was annulled, on the ground
that the petitioner failed to prove his debt.
We understand that the Attorney General has

given his fiat for bringing a writ of error against
the judgment and sentence of death passed upon
the convict Mansell, for the murder of his superior
officer. The prisoner will be bronght up by a writ
of habeas corpus, which has still to be applied for,
and the keeper of Maidstone gaol will seek to
place his prisoner in Newgate, where he can be
only received as a " lodger," although the court
could, if necessary, send him to the Queen's Bench
prison, and detain him in the custody of their own
marshal.

The agitation against the continuation of the

income tax has not abated. Indeed, the nearer we
approach to the meeting of Parliament, the stronger
is the determination of the public to have the
obnoxious impost abolished. The citizens of Cork
and the people of Belfast and Leicester, have held
large and influential meetings, and agreed to peti-
tion Parliament against the " war ninepence." At
Cork the Mayor presided ; and Mr. Fagan, one of
the city members, in a lengthened speech, moved
the following resolution !—" That, though the Irish
nation had scarcely recovered in 1853 from the
previous years of famine and from accumulated
local taxation wheu the income tax was extended to

Ireland, yet it has not only acquiesced in its impo-
sition, but it has most readily submitted to this
inquisitorial and inequitable tax being more than
doubled during the prosecution of a
,just and
necessary war, on the final result of which were
staked the honour of the empire and the liberties
of Western Europe.".
The intelligence from the Continent is of an
interesting character. Some discussion is said to
have taken place in the Paris Conference respect-
ing the protocols. England and Austria have
protested against any protocols being made or
published, exe,ep,-. a general one of the result, anct
it is said that their protest will prevail.
Respecting the dispute between Prussia and
Switzerland, the statements are somewhat con-
flictii:4. The mission of the American ambassador
at Berne, to Berlin, has had no decisive effect ;
and the statement of a Swiss paper of the success
. of the mission of Dr. Kern, an old friend of Louis
Napoleon, to Paris, has led to a severe rebuke of
that paper by the Swiss authorities. On the
other hand, a telegraphic despatch of yesterday
from Berne asserts that the French Em-
peror's proposals have been adopted by the
Swiss Government, and a leading French
newspaper is informed from St. Petersburg of a
letter written by the King of Prussia to the Empe-
rorr of Russia, expressing great personal anxiety
about the preservation of the peace of Europe. It
is certain, too, that the difficulties thrown in the
way of a Prussian march towards the Alps, by the
jealousy of Austria and the feeling in the south of
• Germany, are constantly iticreasing.
Vienna advices of the sth inst. state that the
mission of the Prussian Special Envoy, Colonel
Manteuffel, who hal left to see the Emperor of
Austria himself, has entirely failed as far as the
Government is concerned. The language of the
Vienna press leaves no doubt that Austria
will persist in attempting to make the passage
of Prussian troops through South Germany a
Federal question, in which the Diet, and not
the individual state, must decide. It is said
that recently the representatives of Austria
and the symptoms of public feeling in Wurtem-
burg and Baden have been felt by the governments
of these States, and that although they should have
already engaged themselves to permit the passage
of Prussian troops, they would now eagerly seize
any opportunity to get rid of their obligation . The
Emperor and Empress left Venice on the 4th, and
have first gone to Padua.
Persia is said to have called upon Russia to act
as mediator between her and England, to which
Russia very naturally replied that France was, a
much more appropriate mediator. Some time
ago we noticed a Persian State paper, directed
to the courts of Paris, St. Petersburg, and
Constantinople, which may have given rise to this
rumour.

It was rumoured at Constantinople that the
Circassians had defeated a Russian force of 10,000
Jaen, near Beyduk. The Duke of Medina has

ssued a decree, granting a full pardon to several
political prisoners, and reducing the punishments
of others.

A letter from Odessa, of the 22nd, in the Vienna
Gazette, states that the fortifications there,
have beeu completely disarmed, and the
earthworks ' thrown up during the war have
crumbled away in the wet weather ;
and also, that the rumours of the great move
tnents of troops in Podolia and Bessarabia are
unfounded. Several Russian officers have obtained
leave to go to Algeria and join the French expedi
tion against the Kabyles, and some of the Russian
naval officers are going to study the maritime
establishments of France. The ✓Russians deny
that there is any truth in the story of an English
gunboat having been fired at, some time ago, in
passing Yenikale ; they assert that there is no
battery mounted at that place.

THE second diplomatic Conference has ended
just as the first great farce did. Much talk and
writing has been resorted to, and a variety of new
arrangements entered into, which are left to time
to be fulfilled. This has carried us back to
where we stood on the 30th of March last.
Everything was then clearly defined and well under-
stood by the contracting parties, and Russia was
willing, so said her Envoys, to act up to the
letter and spirit of the Paris Treaty. But here
we are, after ten months spent in a state of the
most costly suspense, starting afresh with a paper
promise from Austria to evacuate the SULTAN'S
dominions, and an equally flimsy assurance from
the CZAR that he will comply with the terms
agreed to in his name. All, however, that
remains for them to perform is to be done by the
30th of March next, and if they intend to con-
tinue a perfidious course, they will have but little
time to mature any formidable grounds of
evasion or plans of resistance. Placing a limit
to the existence of uncertainty is something
gained ; and should the present conditions be
carried into effect, there will be no great room
left for complaint. In defence of the delays which
have already taken place, it is alleged that the
nature of the locality did not allow the Boundary
Commission to come to an understanding upon
all the points of the new frontier line between
Turkey and Russia, The silence observed in
the Treaty with regard to the fate of the Isle of
Serpents, and blundering about the disposal of
the Delta of the Danube, were also assigned as
reasons which called for a second Congress.

But all these difficulties have now been re-
moved, and a distinct line has been laid down for
the guidance of all parties. " Inspired with the
" resolutions of the Congress," says the new Pro-
tocol, " and wishing to conciliate all interests'
" the Conference, by unanimous consent, has
" decided that the frontier line shall follow the
" Vale of Trajan as far as the river Yalpuck,
" leaving Bolgrad and Tabak to Moldavia, and
" that Russia shall retain on the right bank Of
" that stream the town of Komrat, with a terri-
" tory of about 300 versts. The Isle of Serpents
" has been considered as belonging to the
" mouths of the Danube, and it has been agreed
" that it goes with their destination. The Con-
" ference has recognised that it was the intention
" of the Congress to re-establish, by Article 21
" of the Treaty of Peace, in their former condi-
" tion the territories situated west of the new
" boundary, and to conform itself to the provi_
" sions of the negociators of the peace ; it has
" decided that those territories shall be annexed
" to Moldavia, with the exception of the Delta of
" the Danube, which returns directly to Turkey."
Nothing, we repeat, can be more distinct than
the meaning of the words employed in these
sentences. They leave no loophole for further
shuffling with respect to the frontier question'
and our readers will be glad to find that the true
meaning of the Protocol is equally transparent as
regards the evacuation of the
.Principalities by
the Austrian troops, and the Black Sea by the
British squadron.

The Conference speak most clearly on these
subjects. They state that "It has been decided
" moreover, that on the 30th of next March, at
" latest, the fixing of the boundary shall be
".effected, and that at that same date the Aus-
" trian troops and the British squadron shall
" have evacuated the Danubian Principalities and
" the internal waters of Turkey." As soon as
these obligations have been complied with, the
Boundary Commissioners are to proceed with
their task ; and when they have terminated
their labours, they are to report to the Confer-
ence, which will meet again, when an agreement
will be come to between the contracting parties
relative to the future organisation of the Princi-
palities. Thus ends Congress No. 2 with a
Protocol. Conference No. 1 terminated with a
Treaty ; and we must now wait patiently to see
which of the two is the most auspicious mode of
dealing with one and the same thing. Ideal
lines may do very well for boundaries between
highly civilised states and peoples wishing to
cultivate a close intimacy with each other.
They may also be consented to as a temporary
convenience, but they can never last and form
the basis of permanent peace between jealous
and half civilised nations. On the Continents of
Asia, Africa, and America, the highest moun-
tains, broadest lakes, and widest rivers are
selected as the natural boundaries of States ;
and we fear that nothing short of the Danube
will keep the Russians back, except for the
moment. They are bending now to the pressure
of woeful necessity ; and when that necessity
shall have passed away, we may expect to have
our frontier disputes in the East as well as the
West. Still, every pretext for prolonging the
public anxiety touching the execution of the
Treaty of Peace has been exploded ; and when
the 30th of March arrives, we shall be able to
judge of the sincerity of those who have signed
the memorable Protocol.

THE PIKE WATER.—The Pike Water question
is not yet settled. The complaints as to its
deleterious qualities are loud and universal.
Under these circumstances, the Water Committee
should pause, ere the health of the public
becomes endangered. Those parties who now
use the Pike water, as supplied from the Edge_
hill Works, are getting more and more disgusted