Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-10-14 00:00:00

'of the competitive system in the
Tv important fact evolved'hy these

hat although t

Sir Stafford

to watt

The Rev. J. P. smith, Mr. T. D. Aeland; and Mr
Bernard Blake, followed in the discussion:
The resolution was then passed and carried nem. con,

.fter which the meeting ;vas adjourned until the I'ol

ceeded with

.E LICENSING SYSTEM WITH REFERENCE TO

BEERHOUSER

'system, so far as beerhouses were concerned

ate of charade

those of publicans. The control of magistrates over
beerhOuses was so small as hardly to be worth having:
The 'penalty. was inflicted on the keeper, and not in
the house ;' and if a man. were .driven from the house
by repeated fines, he could. start afresh though a

adjoining house. At some length 11—r. Cropper
pointed out the evils arising from the beerhouse system.
'The remedy which he suggested was, that the magis-
should have the licensing of beerhouses.. As the

influential reputation urged upon Mr. 'Walpole' that the
Government should take up the question, and since
then • a deputation had seen' Sir 'G. C. Lewis on the
same subject. Re (Mr. Cropper) looked forward with
being done in. the next session of

hope to something,

Parliament

ilpilt

MOON'S CHANGES: LAST QUA

LIVERPOOL TIDE TAMA

DAY.
14... Friday ..
15... Saturday

0 34 17 .!
1 13 16 6

5 10 11 8

.osterid [ Athenia

,Marseilles, i Gipsey

Coral Island .Demerara
Port Natal Alexandria Buenos Ayres
Nant• a James Grey Boston
.Barcelona Conqueror • Bombay
..Demerara Douglas Castle Bombay
.Rio Pone° Ilendrika Gesina
..Louyaine Jeune Baptiste ...Sierra Leone
....Bombay Alma Trieste
....Jamaica
FOREIGN PORTS.

following vessels in the African
Tagus, Esperanza, and Arno (ss), henc
Catherine, hence at Flensburg.
Nautilus, hence at Madeira. •
Grand Bonny, off Madeira Oct. 4, for Africa
TDhoeu
Athenian
Douro ( s
Julius Caesar, hence at Toulon.
e(nrmcesa),t
lOepftotr:e.
Ebba Brahc, from Cardiff at Aden'.
'h
rivers :---

at Lisbon,

BONNY, Sept. 8: Paragon, Mississippi, Thornhill, Osprey,
Valleyfield, Fanny, Royal Arch, Livingstone, Ferozepore, Al-
borough, and Ellen Grant The Charles Horsfall and Mermaid
were towed over the bar by the Athenian Sept. 8.
OLD CALABAR, Sept. 4: Moselle, and Invincible.
FERNANDO Po, Aug. 29: H.M.S. Falcon, and brig Susan.
The Mary Hamilton sailed for Queenstown Aug. 15..
SIERRA LEONE, Sept. 21 : Tiverton, Allerton, and Prome-

LAGOS, Sept. 10: Barbara, Busk, Deslandes, and steamer
Fidelater.

in lat. 39 5, lon. 47 1
•
BENIN, Sept. 5 : Araminta, Cherokee, and Seatlower.
Eio BENTO, Sept. 10: Arabian.
Singapore, ,
Aug. G,
CAPE COAST CASTLE, Sept. 14: . Alligator.
Curagoa, hence for Kurrachee, Aug. 8, in lat. 25 S., lon. 59 1
Julia, Akyab for Falmouth, July 14, in lat 43 .
S., ton. 36 E.
Edendale, Oct. 8.
Bengal, Aug
British Quo(
General Havelocl____, ~,, „„ s. us 4
Alston, Cardiff for Singa
Polina, Sept. 5, in lat. 15 N., 17n. 26 W

9, in lat. 21 S., lon.'l E.
Oct. 3, in lat. 47 N., lon. 15 NV

OUTPORTS.
DEAL, Oct. 13.--Arrived and passed : Allan, and.Rochum-
Sydney

koa arams ruintyra, ICIT Mattras;
Hall, Landon to Genoa; Hercules, London to Newport.
GRAVESEND, Oct. 13.--Arrived : Maria Minna, from Berdian-
ski ; Emperor, Madras; Nos, Laurvig ; Anna, Petersburg ;
Anne, Dominica; Jovina, Havana ; Dolphin, Bruges. Sailed
Quelly Shell, Terceira ; Ciementa, Cadii Hercules, Memel ;

Arnoldina Catherina, Genoa.
QUEENSTOWN, Oct. 13.--Arrired : Nameless, from Galatz ;
Shamrock, Limerick to Glasgow, windbound;
iinigde Jacobi,
Gustav Frederic, Tagonreg ; Three Brothers, Bristol
Edith Pepper, San Philßß;
_;Sardinian, Akyab.

Sulina ;
to Cork

—Arrived : Glen
Spes, Savannah

Sailed : N

ganrog; Rebecca, and
forplitmeLwifNo,unodetla.
/*Roy Anne, Amst
Newfoundland. Caroline, from Cull ; Pro-
Curlew, ,Ra no tdt
rGeorgeda and Adolphe, Ta
Dunkirk
erdam •; Mary Jones,

STO7I, Oct.ali3l.o_d_A:rrionvdined :e A(
si,dif,ofrrron
MARITIME EXTRACTS. 7
Malaga

rity, Marianof

Th 3 Kangaroo (ss), hence at Q
. and sailed for New York at

iers and latest telegraph news on board. -
The barque Mars, of Liverpool, was destroyed by f
Bonny Aug. 10. Crew saved.
The Wolfsville, for Ardrossan at Queenstown, 54 day'
lost mizenmast, bulwarks, &c., and is making Water.
rentl FAYAL, Sept. 26 : The Caleb Chaunterland (late Mali),
siorr.
:n here with master and four

from Can

The Tut

.ons in gov-

ernment offices are necessarily small, the number willing

to enter into competition for them is always wry great.
cortheote, 31. P., not being present, his
er (also on this subject) was read by the secretary,

Mr. FdwinYbaTvickthen moved the following reso-
lution:—" That it be recomniended to the council or
this association to request the. Committee of• Education

i the application of the principle of competitive
examinations, as a test of fitness for the civil-service,

expediency of further extending that application_"
The resolution was seconded by the Rev. J.'' SS. How-

son, who took the opportunity of objecting to the.present
very limited range of competition as tending to introduce
into the service men of very second-rate ability. Mr.
Howson also expressed his strong sense of the desirability
• .

of transferring the power of presentation from Membeia
of parliament to maf.,fisttates.and other local authorities.

wing day:
The business of the various sections was then pro-
. . .

Mr..Jaineg Cropper read a paper on this subject. Ile
;lanced at the origin of the Beer Bill of 1830. -By this

only qualification required being that the . house
should be rated at a certain - amount, .and • that the

signed by six householders. Experience, however;
had shown that houses -of the lowest character were
sometimes accepted by the Excise. The object of the
bill tts I.avc:tm: t^ cAvo nublic the 'men
of competition in respect to malt liquors. The original
intention was to create licenses to sell liquors that
should not be drunk on the premi?es, and the drinking
license was an addition to Jim first idea. The latter had
now beome almost the universal -rule. The system of
competition had not worked advantageously to the
public. A committee of the )louse oeCommims, ap-

pointed in 1854 to consider the subject, reported
that the beershop system had proved a failure. The

let them be responsible for the nurseries of crime,
(Hear, hear.) Mr. Cropper, in conclusion, referred to
the introduction, by Mr. Hardy, of a bill to repeal the
law of 183 Q, so far as the excise license was concerned,
and to place the licensing, power in the hands of thg
magistrates. This measure was opposed by the Goren):
mend and-licfertted by a small -majotity::-In -1858 an
t 1 .1. . • •