Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-01-15 00:00:00

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THE NORTHERN TIMES SATURDAY, JANUARY 15, 1859.

and a protest had been numerously signed, and
was to be forwarded to Madrid for presentation
to the Queen of Spain. We learn from Centiral
America that the British fleet at. San Juaix del
Norte had been 1-inforced by two vessels _ of

war, one a ship 'of the line. Sir W. Gore Ouseley,
the British minister, who was in ill health, had
arrived. at Aspinwall and crossed the Panama, and
on the Bth December embarked on board ship,
bound for Costa Ricaand Nicaragua. The Nica-
ragua Congress was to meet on New Year's day,,
and again consider the Cass-Yrisarri treaty, the
Belly convention, and all the other official papers,
deeds and sealed covenants,, the conditions of
which remained unfullfilled by the government.
It was said that Senor Yrisarri's removal from his
mission to Washington had been ordered. Some
apprehension of a filibuster invasion from Cali-
fornia was felt in Nicaragua, and the Costa Rica
Minister of War, at a public dinner, urged the
annexation of that country to the United States.

Most of the republics has concluded an arrange-
ment with the Panama Railroad company for the
running of steamers between the prinCipal ports
and Panama. From New 'Grenada we learn that
the state of Bolivia had voted a decree enforcing the
payment of tithes for all dissenters, in aid of the
Roman Catholic church. This caused much 'excite-
mont.

From Prussia there is one point of intelligence
that is somewhat different to these war rumours.
It is, that the Got erzunent of the Prince Regent
certainly intends to open the museums and public
buildings on Sundays. The working classes. of
Berlin seem very gratified with the result.
The inquest on the body of the man Hunt, who
was killed on Thursday, by the falling of the floor
of a house in Tithebarn-street, was held yesterday.
From the evidence, it would appear that the
" joists" in the house were of a rotten description,
that they had not sufficient " hold," and that in
several instances they only penetrated through the
plaster on the walls. Mr. Rishton, building-sur-
veyor, gave somewhat similar evidence, but he was
of opinion that the flooring ought to have been
minutely examined prior to any alterations being
made. This, it was stated, did not take place.
The jury first returned a verdict of " Accidental
death," and on being interrogated by the Coroner
as to whether they thought there was any culpable
neglegance on the part of the contractor, they con-
sidered. for some time and returned a fresh verdict
of "Accidental Death, with negligence on the part
of the contractor," this was demurred to by one
of the jurors, and on the Coroner saying that he
would have to lock them up, they returned a
verdict of " Accidental. Death, and that some blame
was attachable to the contractor, but not culpable
blame."
Yesterday, the Workhouse Committee, having
resolved themselves into a special committee
for • the purpose, inquired into the charges
made against Miss . Gillow, one of the Roman
Catholic Lady Visitors to the inmates of the
Workhouse. A lengthened inquiry took place,
and the following resolution was unanimously
adopted :—" That, after a long and partial ex-
amination of the girl Catherine Foley, and of
several other inmates of the Workhouse, this
committee find that the material and objectionable
portion of Foley's statement is confirmed and cor-
roborated ; under these circumstances, no course
is open to them but to request Miss Gillow to
discontinue her visits to the Liverpool Work-
house." The material and objectionable portion
alluded to is the words by Miss Gillow, that
Foley would be " damned to all eternity," should
she persist in continuing'a Protestant.
At the Bankruptcy Court yesterday, Mr. Com-
missioner Perry delivered judgment in the ease
of Wilcox, a ship-chandler, of Liverpool. The
accounts were not satisfactory, and payments to
the bankrupt's father were not sufficiently plain,
yet his Honour did not see that there was suffi-
cient evidence to refuse a certificate, and !all
questions would, he said, be discussed on the day
appointed for the allowance of the certificate.
C. H. Wrenshall, a music seller, at Birkenhead,
received a second-class certificate, as did also Cecily
Eccles, a draper, at St. Helens.
It is announced that the address in answer to
the speech from the throne, will be moved; in the
House of Commons, by the Hon. Charles Trefusis,
M.P., for North Devon, and seconded by Mr. Bee-
croft, M.P., for Leeds.
The rumour that Mr. Gladstone is likely to
remain in the lonian Islands, as ordinary High
Commissioner, vice Sir John Young, is so far con-
firmed by the Gazette de Vienne, which says so,
but it puts it in this way, that Sir John Young
will be provisionally replaced by Mr. Gladstone,
who will preside at the promised revision of the
lonian Constitution.
On Thursday two railway collisions occurred,
one at Bolton and the other at Craven Arms, on
the Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway ; but
happily no one was killed, though several persons
sustained more or less serious injuries.
The colliers out on strike in Wigan have been
committing some outrages. On Wednesday night
some two or three hundred of the turn-outs ex-
tinguished some of the street lamps, and waylaid
several regular hands, and severely maltreated
them, so that they had to be conveyed to the
infirmary.
The Bank' Returns, as published in last night's
Gazette, show an increase of 207,815/. in active
circulation ; 46,7011. in the amount of bullion ,•
47,2391. in Rest ; and 16,7401. in Seven Day and
other bills. There is a decease of 4,113,5671. in
Public Deposits, but an increase of ,145,702/. in
other deposits. There is also a decrease of 205,065/.
in the reserve of notes.

THE scene at the Toxteth Board of Guardians,
as reported in our impression of yesterday, was
only another illustration, and certainly a. very

amusing one, of the great practical importance of
that inestimable gift of being able to " see our-
selves as others see us ;" and the grievous disad-
vantage they labour under who do not possess it.
Certain choice spirits of this parochial parliament
appear to be quite unaware that they are making
themselves ridiculous ; and when they come to
have even an indistinct idea of it, as they read a
correct report of their doings and their demeanour
in the newspapers of the next morning, they stare
with astonishment to find that they have been

making such an exhibition of themselves, and
become vexed and mortified that the Press, even
in the ordinary routine of its duty, has had the
audacity to pourtray it ! They quite forget,
apparently, that theirs is a public Board—that
the public, therefore, desires, and has a right to
know, what is done there. The credit of the
Union, and of the whole town, indeed, is more or
less concerned, as to the manner in which their
duties as Poor-law Guardians are discharged. If
they, or any of them, make the Board a laughing-
stock, it reflects anything but respectably upon
the entire community, but more particularly upon
that numerous body of our townspeople whose
representatives they unfortunately are. They who
do us this discredit, by having made themselves
ridiculous, are irritated beyond measure, it would
seem, that anything whatever should be said about
it. They begin to feel that what they have said
and done will not bear the light which it is the
province of the Press to cast upon all such public
proceedings ; and instead of being out of humour
with themselves for their own folly, they
become wrathful and furious against the
Press for having, in the performance of
its duty;

exposed their pranks and peccadillos.
One wincing Guardian gets up, and in lugubrious
tones proela;ms to the gaping Board his woe, thit
crew the truthful account of what they had doh

should have covered hirr, and hialcompatriots'Nirith
so much confusion. "He felt greatly grieved," -so
ran our yesterday's report, "at some severe
remarks which had appeared in the NORTHERN
TIMES newspaper last week with regard to the
proceedings of the Board." We have no doubt of
it whatever,—his grief, or rather, perhaps, his
vexation, was one of the most natural things in
the world, under the circumstances. 'No man can
be pleased with himself when he, finds that net
only has he been making himself highly ridiculous,
but that the public has been made aware of it.
But its very exposure does great good,—it is the
antidote, indeed, to the bane ; and its administra-
tion ought to have a wholesome effect upon the
sufferers themselves, from their own indiscretion,
by teaching them a useful lesson of life, would
they but learn it and profit by it. The worst of it
is, that there are some men who never will benefit
by any teaching of experience whatever. It has
been well observed, that "he who has no inclina-
tion to learn more, will be very apt to think that
he knows enough." And such, it may be feared,
is precisely the case with certain of theSe Toxteth
Guardians., There is, therefore, but one effectual
remedy for such a state of things—and that is to
return the incurable gentlemen in question, on the
very first opportunity, to that obscurity of private
life where they can " blush unseen," and from
which it was cruel of the ratepayers ever to have
called theta forth to play tliose " fantastic tricks
before high heaven," which from time to time, of
late, we have had the unenviable, task of
chronicling. We shall return to this subject on
Monday, in a more lengthened notice of the
matter. -

WE trust that. all our Liverpool readers have
perused, with the attention it- merited, the report
we ,gave in our impression of: yesterday, of the
discussion in the Town Conncir on the Water
question. No one, we think,' can -have done so,
without having been convinced of the import-
ance of the course that has been pursued by Mr.
JEFFERY, if only by its having had the effect of
ventilating a matter in which the whole town
and neighbourhood are so deeply interested,
and which the proceedings referred to
show so forcibly was in great need of being
ventilated. The people of Liverpool are deeply
interested in the subject in two most important
particulars,—first, as respects the quality
water supplied to them ; and, secondly, as regards
the cost at which it is' supplied. And when it
had to be acknowledged, as it would be seen by our
report that it had, " that while the impure water
is being supplied to the Liverpool people,' and
the pure water to the district beyond Liverpool,
the deficit will have to be made up exclusively by
the ratepayers who have the impure water, and
those who are supplied with the pure water
are not called upon to contribute :one penny

of the

towards the deficit, which will amount:to24d in
the pound upon every building rateable, within
the power of their levying a rate,"—where such,
we say, is the-case—wheie factS-sucli as these hcive
been brought out—surely there was only too much
reason for the agitation of the subject, in order
that what is so seriously amiss might', 'with all
convenient despatch, be effectually remedied.

Then, again, observe the frank and manly con-

fessions of error, as to the past, upon this most
important water question. "If a man has been
deceived," honestly and honourably, said Mr.
JAMES—HOLME, " it, is his honest duty at once to
avow it ; and I candidly confess that I am de-
ceived, both as to the cost of these works and
the quality of the water." So, likewise, in a
similarly honest and honourable manner, did
Mr. SAMUEL HOLME acknowledge his error.
"He did not hesitate to make the con-
fession, as well as his brother, that • the

quantity of water which they were receiving from
itivington had not been so great as they were led
to expect." Well,- then, such being the base, is it

not evident that something was wrong, and that

the whole matter must need thoroughly sifting ?
These confessions of error, we say, are highly
creditable to the parties making them ; but would
they have been made, if the defects of the

scheme to which they relate had not been
exposed ? Mr. HODSON may froth and fume, and

take God's holy name in vain, as he likes ; but
what does his wrath and his fury prove, but that
the exposures which have been made, and the
confessions they have extorted, are, from their
very truth, too galling with certain minds to be
endured with composure. " Mr. JEFFERY," quotes
that mild. and gentle Councillor, " from day to day,
in that Council was doing a systematic,,injury by

prejudicing the question in the eyes of the public."
And how ? Why, by exposing the evils of a

system which was doing an injustice • and an

injury to the town; and, by thus exposing,
striving to get it remedied, and the town

thereby benefited in a most important degree
It is not a question of expenditure merely—not
simply a matter of economy, or one of convenience,
or both : it is an affair of health and life,—it is a
subject, therefore, of vital interest to the town at
large, but more especially to the masses of its
dense population. It is a great sanitary question'
and one which is not-to be trifled with, if there is
to be any regard in our Municipal Corporation for
the interests of the public health. It may be all
true
.enough, perhaps, as Mr. HODSON boasted;
" that they had as good water now: as was ever
supplied to a community,"—though we must
question both the correctness and the good taste
of the additional remark, " that any man who said
the water was unhealthy, did not not know what
he was talking about, or what he was stating to the
public." The water has been "unhealthy." And that
it is not so now, is mainly owing to the persevering
efforts of those who, according to the asseverations,
more gratuitous than gentlemanly, of Mr. HODSON,
"know nothing what they are talking about!"

We refrain at present, from going more particu-
larly into the details of the case. Our object, on
the instant, is simply to point out, by directing

attention. to the more prominent features of the late
discussion, how much the town is being benefited
by'thal ventilation of the question which has with
.$o much 4ifficuit.Y been effected.

AMERICA.
ARRIVAL OF THE KANGAROO.
The screw steamer Kangaroo arrived here
shortly after noon yesterday. She brings 176
passengers, and $151,919 in specie, also New
York advices to the Ist January.

The steam-ship Fulton, from Southampton,
arrived at Halifax on the 31st ult., short of coal.

The political news is not of the least importance.
In commercial affairs there is but little change

to notice. Cotton was steady at t 1 cto 12c for
middling. Breadstuffs and Provisions unchanged.
Freights were dull and inactive. ' .
Our Washington intelligence states that Mr.
Nugent, special agent of America to the Fraser
River region, had arrived at Washington. He
says that the American's in British Columbia and

Vancouver's Island are very much annoyed by the
continual exactions practised upon them by the
colonial government and Hudson Bay Company.
Before leaving Mr. Nugent published an address
to the American citizens resident in the two
colonies, admitting the existence of many abuses,
but proinising the intervention of the United States
government for the redress of those grievances,
and exhorting the people to strict obedience to
the _laws of the colony and of Great Britain.

Before his departure, Mr. Nugent was entertained
at a public dinner, by the American residents. A
number of British subjects attended, and the affair
passed off pleasantly. There were about three
thousand people on Fraser 'river. At the time of
Mr. Nugent's departure they were constantly
leaving, but a number had expressed their deter-
mination to winter in the mines. Some four or
five bars were paying well ; the rest of the country
was not productive. Governor Douglas had been
appointed Governor of British Columbia and had
published a proclamation organising the colony of,
-British - Columbia and legalizing all previous acts
of himself and his subordinates in the local
government.
The War Department had received additional
advices from General Harney, detailing in full his
movements among the Indians. The General had

-
gone to work in good earnest to subdue the Indians.
He had apprehended and hung the five Indians
who murdered Indian Agent Bowlin some time
since, and established various military posts in the
Indian country, with the view of suppressing.
Indian depredations. Father Dismute, the Indian
missionary who went out withilim, had com-
menced his services among the red men, and was
accomplishing much among the upper tribes.
The General thinks that the Utah troops can be
amply supplied with provisions from the Walla-
Walla country.

✓
The New York Herald, under the head of
" What prospect in Congress ?" says :
The holiday recess taken by the two houses till the 4th
of January, is significant of a controlling determination
to do nothing, and avoid everything, except the annual
appropriations, and the floating jobs of the lobby. Thus,
upon the tariff, the finances, the increase of the steamers
of the navy, the Pacific Railroad, Cuba, Mexico, and
Central America, we take it for granted that nothing
will be done. We shall, doubtless, have some gassy
debates upon Kansas, Arizona, the African slave trade,
the Walker filibusters, specific duties and ad valorems,
the upshot of all of which will probably be a hurried
passage of the regular appropriations at the fag end of
the session, a general scramble of the lobby, a large
bateh'of spurious .lobby items, and the necessities of the
government, at. home and abroad left in the most pro-
mising state for an extra session. In short,. the lobby
,and Presidential, jobbers have taken possession of Con-
gress, and are actively undermining the .treasury, the
'government, and the Union. When will' the country

wake up ?
According to the Washington correspondent of
the New York Journal of Commerce—
The New Pension Bill which the House has just passed,
is more objectionable than any previous one of the sort.
Pensions are granted by it to men who have before had
full pay, and bounties in money, and in land. Pensions
are granted by it, not for long service, as in the case of
revolutionary soldiers, but of merely nominal service for
six months. Pensions are granted by it to all who were
accidentally in or near a place where powder was burnt,
even for one day or hour. By construction of the Pension
Office, heretofore, all who were called out in expectation
of a battle, are to be considered as having been in battle.
But, even without any. forced construction, the new
Pension Bill will require an expenditure from the
Treasury of, as some estimate, from fifteen to twenty
millions a-year.
The correspondence between Commodore
Paulding and the authorities of Nicaragua had
been made public. Commodore Paulding, on the
Bth day of May last, addressed a letter to the
Secretary of the Navy, covering documents from
General Jerez and the President of Nicaragua,
relieving hini " from all Maine or responsibility
in landing at Punta Arenas for the arrest of
William Walker and his lawless followers." The
first is dated at Leon, March 29th, 1858, saying
that Commodore Paulding's conduct was received
by the Government of that Republic and by
the people of Nicaragua with much satis
faction, " because it expressed a single rebuke
of an aggression so bold and unjust on the
rights and territory of Nicaragua." Jerez says
that thanks - are due, and are tendered, for
the motives by which Com. Paulding was actuated.
The second letter is dated at Managua, March 31,
1858, written by direction of the President of
Nicaragua, in which it is said that " William
Walker, with a mob of highwaymen invaded
Nicaragua, for the purpose of trampling under foot
the principles of humanity and justice, on which
public law reposes." The Government had com-
missioned Jerez to express to Com. Paulding " the
most profound gratitude for an act so illustrious."
" Humanity and civilisation have already approved
the judgment most honourable to you, and
posterity will repeat • this judgment more
eloquently and more admiringly. It is history
alone that judges of the actions of men, with a
full appreciation of their value."
A couple of shocking 'railroad catastrophes hap-
pened on the 31st December, on the road from
Columbus to Macon, Ga. The most disastrous
was caused by the train running off the track in
consequence of a culvert having been washed
away by heavy rains. The accounts we have re-
ceived of the accidents are somewhat confused,
but it is ascertained beyond doubt that between
twenty and thirty lives have been sacrificed.
Late intelligence from Havannah reiterates that
much excitement prevailS there concerning the
President's Message, butNaffords no basis for the
belief that a revolutionary movement is contem-
plated.
The general tone of the advices from Mexico is
such as to warrant the assertion that the interven-

tion of the French government has not been
requested for any purpose, while it is repeated that
the authorities of Tampico have, through the
efforts of the Captain General of Cuba, satisfied
the claims of certain Spanish subjects, this being
an isolated case ; the additional statement is made
that the difficulties between the government of
Spain and that of Mexico are in a fair way of an
early adjustment.
A despatch from St. Louis,.dated 31st December,
says :

The Overland mail, with San Francisco dates of the
3rd instant, arrived here last night. Five passengers left
San Francisco with the mail, three of whom stopped at
Fort Smith. The. roads from San Francisco to Red
River were good, and from thence to Tipton very bad.
The accounts from Gila River Mines continue favourable.
One of the mail stations had been robbed of its entire
stock of mules by the Indians. The snow and ice on the
route had nearly disappeared under the influence of the
late warm weather.

INDIA AND CHINA.

MARSEILLES, Friday Morning.
The ...Linares arrived at Suez on the 6th, with
the ;Bombay mails, dated Dec. 24.
CALCUTTA, Dec. B.—The produce market was
unfavourable ; indigo not so brisk at the com-
mencement of the season ; raw silk was drooping
in value, rice a dead letter, and oil seeds quiet.
The import market was active. No change in the
money market. Exchange, 2s. old. to 2s. Oil,d.
MADRAS, Dec. 14.—Exchange, is. 1114. to Oad.
HONG KONG, Nov. 29.—Exchange on London,
at six months, 4s. 83d. Tonnage abundant.
SHANGHAI, Nov. 22.—Exchange, at six months,
6s. 9d. per tad.

FRANCE AND AUSTRIA

PARIS, Friday, Jan. 14th.

The Constitutional of this morning contains an
article on the present state of affairs under the
signature of the political Director Renee. The
article refers to serious difficulties, which have
arisen between France and Austria, concerning
the Danube and Servia. The article goes on to
say :—" The speech of the King of Sardinia could
not 'be more -Moderate. *The. marriage- of the
Prince Napoleon with the Princess of Savoy will
cement the alliance between the two nations.
Italy is agitated, but war is only possible in the
event of the violation of Treaties taking, place or
being threatened."

PIEDMONT AND AUSTRIA.
TURIN, Thursday, Jan. 13.
The official Piedmontese Gazette, publishes the
following note :
The official Gazette of Vienna having announced the
despatch of reinforcements to Italy, the Piedmonthse
government has thought it its duty to bring the distant
garrisons nearer to the frontiers of Lombardy, without,
however, calling out the contingents.