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

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THE NORTHERN TIMES.---LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 185't.

reality it may be quite the reverse; for the
nobleman who makes it " hopes to God that
the £lO householders will never be let in."

Why ? Is the payment of 110 a-year rem
not as good a qualification as the receipt of 150
of income? " The truth is," says a London
cotemporary of last evening, " the class which the
Duke of Cleveland would give votes to he hopes
would be obedient to the wishes of " the landed
interest," and he fears the 110 householder would
not; therefore he would exclude the latter. This is
the real point that will have to be fought, for any
Reform Bill that shall not reduce the present
exorbitant power of the landed interest will
be an utter delusion and mockery. We
care not what enfranchisement or disfran-
chisement, or what re-distribution of con-
stituencies may be proposed—any plan that will
hand over to the unpropertied though toiling
people a portion of the political influence now
wielded by the territorial class so injuriously to
the general interest, will be an acceptable plan ;
whatever fails to do this must be rejected. It is
obvious that to form a judgment of any particular
proviQion, the whole bill should be considered ;
since one set of clauses may entirely neutralise
another. The safe way is never to lose sight of
the real object of Parliamentary Reform, as here
indicated.

A melancholy and instructive incident is the self
destruction of Mr. Henry Salmon, a defaulting.
bank agent, at IFalkirk. An account was given,
some days ago, of the manner in which he had
absconded, and the dishonesty of which he had
been guilty. An Edinburgh paper now publishes.
a statement that he has committed suicide in
North Wales. Poor fellow ! his punishment has
been greater than that which the law officers of
the crown could have inflicted.

Our Foreign intelligence this morning contains
an announcement that popular tumult has entirely
subsided in Belgium, but although the clerical
party have thus received a lesson, no tone-of mo-
deration, but rather increased acrimony is observ-
able in its journals. If its Parliamentary leaders
should prove obstinate, either a desolution of the
Chambers, which must otherwise meet within a
month, or a modification of the Ministry will
become necessary.
Paris ad vices are to the effect that an authentic
history of the establishment of the Empire is
is about to be published. " The intention of
effecting the ' coup d'etat' was comunicated by
General Magnan to the generals of the army of
Paris, twenty in number, on the 26th November.
They were sworn to secrecy." The Paris papers—
or at least some of them—are going through the
farce of mildly discussing the Ministerial circular
on the elections. We call the apparent discussion
a farce, 'as much as the election itself, since it is
perfectly well known that a public writer in France
dare not say anything offensive to the Government,
any more than that freedom of voting is given to
those who nominally exercise it. The Emperor,
it is understood, desires just so much of an appear-
ance of opposition as may give a colour to the
notion that he does not rule despotically.
The expedition to Kabylea, Algeria, succeeded,
after some further success over the tribes of Beni-
Ratten, in making them submit, and accept all the
conditions imposed on them.
Our Spanish intelligence gives an account of
bread riots in that country, which were serious
enough to demand the military to suppress them,
which it did, with loss of life. The discussion on
the address in the Cortes still continued at the
date last received; but that, too, is a farce, for, as
one of the deputies ventured to say, the Cortes is
a mere theatre of which the ministry keeps the
key. It is doubtful whether any progress has been
made to a peaceful settlement of the Spanish
quarrel with Mexico.
The Morning Star has arrived from Melbourne,
at Bristol, with gold, valued at £193,530. The
Sydenham, also from Melbourne, was off Scilly on
the 31st ultimo., with 33,000 oz of gold, valued at
£140,000.