The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-04-18 00:00:00

A-TBT.DTG OF BEAUTY IS A JOY FOR EVER.

EVEN O'CLOCK IN THE EVENING. Do.
ki von know what pour that is? Toat'a the time (precisely) at
trhich THE BUTTER PLACE is locked up.

.NEVER GO TO A THEATRE
at least never go to that one in Williamson-square, without
remembering that you are within a few yards of a certain place--
THE—BUTTER PLACE.

THE RIGHT MAN IN THE RIGHT PLACE
ma. KJILLT—to remain ior the prvent In " The Butter
Place," and think no mole of Parliament until the mixt Election.

TWENrY-SIX SHILLINGS PE R DOZEN.

PURE AND VERY PALE

C AN A RYWINE
A BEAUTIFUL AND DELICATE WHITS WINE,
superior to the 3ronte and lower class of Sherries now sold.

D. ANDERSON,
WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANT,
5, CASTLE STREET, LIVERPOOL.

D. AN DE MON has secnrel a qoanti,y of this-Nine, and can with
confidPnep recommend it_

SCOTCH AND IRISH WHISKY. OLD COGNAC BRANDY

MERCHANTS' NEW DINING ROO4S.

D. ANDERSON
IS NOW SHOWING HIS
FIRST STOCK OF NEW GOODS
Fall THE SPRING SEASON,
Comprising the Latest Novelties in Gentlemen's Cravats, Ties
Collars, Plain, Paley, and Dress Shirts, Spring and Summer
Hosiery, Waterproof Overcoats, in Silk and Cloth (Light Textures),
Uumbrellas, and other Fancy Articles.

SHIRTS MADE TO MEASURE.
FIT WARRANTED.
An early insoecrion will much oblige.
s,:Castle-street, let April, 1857.

BOYS' CLOTIIING MADE WITH GREAT TASPE,
At LEWIS & COMPANY'S R inelagh street.

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SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 1857.

• THE DAY'S NEWS.

There is very little domestic news this morning
of much interest or importance. In our own
immediate locality the battle of the church is still
being fought. The poll for the election of an
Overseer and five Select Vestrymen is continued,
and the results at the adjournment last night
showed a clear majority of 777 votes in favour
of the Churchwardens list, which is proof
positive that the parishioners are much averse
to this uncalled for attempt at disturbing the
peace of the parish. We at all times deprecate
bigotry, and are certain that the great majority
of the people of Liverpool will join with us in con-
demning the movement of Mr. Satchells friends.
Independent of the ill feeling which the voting On
the present occasion has fomented, it has caused
a most useless waste of the parish rates.
Business at the parish ofii:e tin-,y be said
to be virtually suspended; and if ever there
was a " vexatious and frivolous excuse" for a
party contest, it is the present. We hope
to morrow wall close the poll, and that the final
result will teach these Orange disturbers that their
day of power and influence in Liverpool is gone,
and that all classes of the ratepayers must have a
du3 representation on the Select Vestry. With
this view we recommend all the ratepayers who
are opposed to these factious proceedings, to at
once proceed to the poll, and vote in favour of. the
Churchwardens' list, .and thus mark their disap-
probation of conduct as disreputable as it is inju-
rious to the public interest.

It is gratifying to learn that our Most Gracious
Queen, with the royal stranger, are both " doing
well " The addition of the young princess to the
Queen's family, has induced some of our metro.
politan cotemporaries to allude to the enormous
expense which that family will cost the country,
and already there are symptoms of strong opposi-
tion to the rumoured dowry to the Princess Royal,
on her marriage with the Prince of Pliissia, Should
anything like X70,00Q per annum le proposed,
there will be a fierce struggle in the new Paths
ment, and ministers will either be obliged to
succumb, or suffer a defeat upon the question
There is no point on which the House of Commons

as now constituted, is likely to' be more sensitive
than the national purse. Public pensions, ever
since the days of Mr. Whittle Harvey's economic
crusade against them, have been iu much disre-
pute. Hence, the late Colonel Sibthorp, althouuh
commanding but little influence or sympathy in
the House of Commons, compelled the Melbourne
Ministry to reduce Prince Albert's annuity to the
extent of 40,000 per annum. We may be certain

that some financial economist will act the part of
the departed Sibthorp, and compel the Premier to
observe moderation in his generosity to the
eldest daughter of Queen Victoria.
Already there are symptoms that the seeds of
political progress sown at the recent general elec.
tion have taken root, and promise well as to the
future growth and yield. A public meeting has
been held at Hawick, for the purpose of promoting
Parliamentary Reform, and if we calculate upon
what took place as a fair indication of the state of
the public mind thereon, there is not any danger
of a long delay in obtaining an extended franchise.
The men of Hawick proposed and carried an
amendment, embodying the principles of manhood
suffrage, in preference to a resolution in favour of
£5 household' suffrage. Wo Should like to .see
every city and town in the United Kingdom follow
the example of the people of Hawick. Now is the
time to keep the question moving. A long pull, a
strong pull, and a pull altogether, will effect the
good required.

A virtual admission of the incompetency and
ignorance charged against the staff officers of the
army in the Crimean campaign will be found in a
veneral order just issued by the Commander in
Chief. This order enumerates the qualifications
which officers must possess before getting staff
appointments. The requirements do not seem of
a high character, or to be extraordinarily difficult of
attainment. Besides military and scientific know.
ledge, it will be necessary that future staff officers
should " write a distinct and legible hand, and
compose = English correctly." The order has a
merciful limitation ; it does not apply to officers
now on the staff.

A case very vividly illustrating the necessity of
the ballot was laid before the Court of Queen's
Bench on Thursday. The circumstances occurred
at the late election for the Donbigh boroughs, and
we regret to say that it is a "clergyman-=the Rev.
Lowry Barnwell-,-who has played the discreditable,
and indeed -criminal part, of endeavouring to in-
timidate a voter who was his tradesmen. " The
Court granted a rule to show cause why a criminal
information should not issue against the rev. gen"
tleman for a violation of the Elections Act.
From the Continent this morning, we have
advices stating that the Ministerial crisis continues
in Denmark.

The Swiss Government and people seem quite
determined not to be snubbed and put down either
by the King of Prussia or by the Conference ; and
the conditions reported as those on which the
Mediating Powers have agreed, certainly seem of a
character to justify the Helvetic Confederation in
resisting them to the last.

The draft of a treaty of commerce between
Austria and Persia has been agreed upon. It is
said to contain the same provisions as that con-
cluded between Persia and the United States.
Accounts 'from Portugal explain the motives of
the expedition which is about to leave Lisbon for
Macao, consisting of three small vessels of war and
a transport with 400 troops. It appears that the
authority of the Portuguese in that colony, which
was guaranteed by the treaty of 1796, concluded
between the Portuguese government and Kia
King, Emperor of China, is now merely nominal,
and that the Chinese have usurped that authority
to the prejudice of Europeans Portugal, sup-
ported if necessary by the other Powers; intends to
enforce the strict execution of the above treaty,
and to sweep away the mandarins, who have
tyrannised over Macao for the last quarter of 'a
century.

From- Constantinople,we learn that a kind of
Zotiverein is projected by the Government as a
means of conciliating pa_blic opinion in the
Principalities.

Towards the end of March, the Circassians at..
tacked and repulsed two strong Russian columns.
The loss of the Circassians amounted to 300; the
Russians 700.

We have two day's later news from America by
the arrival of the Arago at Southampton. It does
not possess features of the least interest or
importance.

The West' Inlia and Pacific Mails arrived at
Southampton yesterday, in the steamer Atrato.
The dates from Jamaica are to• the 27th March.
There was nothing stiring there. The cholera had
eebsed its ravages, and the island was compara-
tively healthy. At I3arbadoes the financial
condition was of a most favourable description.
Some very heavy rains had fallen in St. Luci()
which retarded agricultural operations, and injured
the young canes.

From Nicaragua the news is to the effect, that
Walker had taken St. Georges, and had encom-
passed the Costa Ricans, and committed great
slaughter among them. It was said that Walker
had over 800 fighting men; capable of any move-
ment necessary, and over 300 more efficient for
garrison fighting. A correspondent of an Aspin-
wall paper had furnished an account of the recent
losses by the Costa Ricans. Ile says that the loss
of Casey includes the result of both his expeditions
between San Juan and Rivas, in the first of which
he fought six hundred men with forty, and in the
second considerably more with one hundred men.
We also learn that the body of the enemy which
attacked Rivas, comprised the entire allied force
in the field on the Pacific side of Nicaragua, with
the exception of some five hundred men, and is
supposed to have numbered at least 8,000 men.
The Queen has been pleased to grant the dignity
of a baronet unto Charles Locock, first physician
accoucheur to her Majesty. Such is the purport of
Letters Patent, dated " Whitehall, April 14."
Colonel Tulloch, unattached, is gazetted an
ordinary member of the civil division of K.C.B.
The Duchess of Gloucester, who will complete
her 81st year next week, is dangerously ill,
The death of General Clar&-.!es, Colonel of the
12th Regiment of Foot, is announced.

The Bank of England returns of last night show
a decrease in bulliost of £279,108, a decrease in
rest of £604,553, a decrease in public deposits of
£4,103,183, and an increase in other deposits of
£1,064,035.

IN this age of progress, when the countries of
the old and new world are striving for the
mastery, and when the extension of trade and
commerce is to Great Britain a matter of the
utmost importance, it becomes our rulers, in all
their measures, to s,►nction no plan or national
undertaking antagonistic to this view. It is,
furthermore, most desirable to be placed .
within the shortest distance from our several
colonies and dependencies", so that we may aid
them as far as practicable in the development of
their resources, be in a ready position to import
their spare produce, and as3ist in the general
government of these new countries.

The more frequent and rapid our commercial
intercourse is with any popular country, the
more quickly will it increase in population,
and augment both its imports and exports. If
corroborative examples of this kind were wanted,
we have only to point to Canada and the United
States, and to the more distant regions of India
and China, and Australia. In the development
of our commercial intercourse with the people of
all these places steam has been applied, and as
it were almost, comparatively speaking, an-
nihilated distances. Our letters and papers
from New York and Montreal are brought in
almost as many days as it formerly occupied weeks.
These are gratifying and cheering evidences of
what the skill and enterprise of the mercantile
community can do. With regard to the postal
arrangements between England and the " Western
world," they have long been on a satisfactory
footing. It is true that, by a still more power-
ful class of ocean-going steamers, we might
they are now
receive letters '„,a day sooner than

A.HI NORTP Er7T
TIMES.--LIVERPOOLI •_.s.Al UR DAY.

delivered; but, as matters are managed, it is
questionable if the increased speed would
warrant the additional cost which would be
incurred. The Overland route to India is about
the best which could be selected. As regards
Australia, we are sorry to say that our postal
arrangements are not yet in the most perfect state.

The public requirements are speed, as far as
is consistent with safety to human life, and the
proper discharge of the postal service. Until the
late efforts of the Simla and the European, which
carried the mails to and from Melbourne under
Sixty days, both European and Australian mer-
chants were constantly and justly complaining
against the Australian mail service. The
extraordinary trips of the Marco Polo, the James
Baines, and the Lightning, the Royal Charter and
the Red Jacket, although excellent, were not up
to the wants of the mother country or the
people of the Antipodes. They required
certainty in the despatch and delivery of their
correspondence, arid could not put faith in any
line whose ships were as uncertain as the winds
which drive them along the billows of the
mighty and the trackless deep. Even yet it
has not been demonstrated that entire reliance
can be placed upon the present Austra-
lian mail line. The Oneida has to' be
accounted for, and when that is done we can
then determine whether the contract is made to
advantage, as its advocates allege, to the com-
mercial interests not only of England, but all
the Australian Colonies.

In looking at the postal requirements for
Australia and this country, we conceive that it
should be conducted upon three grand prin-
ciples, viz.: Speed, certainty, and a due regard
to public economy. As to speed, we have
already demonstrated in these columns that
Panama is the route. We have shown that
by taking that route the mails can be carried
between Liverpool and Melbourne in forty
days ; and that there will be less uncertainty in
running the mails by that track. It is well
known that the passage across the Isthmus of
Panama can at all times be accomplished in a few
hours ; and the performances of the West India
Steam-ship Company's vessels on this side the
Panama station are guarantees that, with first-
class steamers, the run from Panama could be
made to Liverpool in fifteen days.
But certainty and speed will be of little avail
if the public convenience is not consulted. At
present this is notoriously not the case. Liver-
pool, which is the great centre of commerce with
Australia, has been passed over, and Southamp-
ton—a great port of the Admiralty--has been
selected as the depot for the Australian mails. If
we compare the London merchants with those of
Liverpool, it will soon be found that more than
one half of the commerce of Australia is with
this district; for, where is Manchestei, where
is Birmingham, Sheffield, Leeds, Bradford,
Huddersfield, Halifax, Bolton, Blackburn, Pres-
ton, Glasgow, Paisley, Cork, Dublin, Belfast,
&c., &e. ? all of which are deeply interested
and engaged in trade with New South Wales,
Victoria, Tasmania, or South 'Australia. Are
they to be sacrificed to greedy London ? Is not
a Liverpool, a Manchester, a Glasgow or Dublin
merchant's letter as important, and requires
delivery equally as early as that of a London one ?
Any system which gives undue preference is un-
just and must work unsatisfactorily. By having
the Australian mails received and despatched at
Liverpool, all unseemly metropolitan monopoly
would be done away with. The man in Glasgow,
in Dublin, or the midland districts of England,
would receive his letters abJut the same time
as they would be delivered in London. This is
fair play, and a system of treatment which the
country has a right to demand and exact.

Another advantage arising from making Liver-
pool the depot of the Australian mail service exists;
the steamers could get cargo6and passengers,
which would enable them to carry the mails at a
cheaper rate. At present this Cannot be done ;
and no matter what the Southampton Dock Com-
mittee may do; they cannot induce the mer-
chants of the manufacturing districts of England
or Scotland to send their goods over two hun-
dred miles out of the way, when they can put
them on a railway waggon, and carry them
thereon to the ship's side at Liverpool.
On the foregoing grounds, speed, certainty,
public economy, and convenience, we advocate
the Panama route, and that Liverpool should be
the port of departure. We have now plenty of
steamers belonging to the port which could per-
form the service. Six vessels like the
Etna, Simla, and Jura would do it
admirably, and place us within reach of
Melbourne fifteen or sixteen days sooner than
our present system admits. We trust that the
merchants of Liverpool will take up the matter.

Pike ; and the result, as is well known, ended in
the utter discomfiture of the entire Pike faction
men, who had long held unlimited influence in
the town. The oldest; most esteemed, and
wealthiest members of the community were
expelled the Council, and unceremoniously cast
aside by overwhelming majorities, and their
places filled by men totally unknown to " for-
tune or to fame ;" men whose only claim to the
suffrages- of the Ratepayers consisted in their
avowed determination to oppose the hated Pike.
The Press thus proved its influence on the public
mind, and the public on their part vindicated their
,
right to self-government. The Pikeists of that
day were in the habit of railing against the Press,
accusing it of offering a factious opposition to the
scheme, and of having no other object in view
than a mercenary one. Their constant and'confi-
dent assertion was that the great bulk of the people
were in favour of their pet project, and that the
opposition out of doors, as it was then termed,
arose solely from a parcel of unprincipled
agitators.
When the public:voice had, however, so unmis-
takeably given the lie to these reiterated asser-
tions—when the result of the elections of 1849 be-
came known, the jobbers had recourse to a course
of policy as flagitious and dishonest as any ever
recorded in the annals of Corporation corruption.
Conscious that they had prodigally squandered
from 10,0001. to 40,0001. of the monies of the
Ratepayers in obtaining an Act, and dreading
exposure if called to account while smarting
under defeat, they resolved on a signal act of
vengeance—one which must, for all future
generations, stamp the actual perpetrators
with infamy and disgrace. When
they saw that the power which they had
so much abused was about to be
wrenched, from , them by the unanimous
voice of an indignant and injured people, they
determined to commit the Corporation so com-
pletely to the gigantic job, that they would
have no chance of escap :; and, at the
eleventh hour of their municipal existence, they
concluded contracts binding on the Council
which involved amounts exceeding 100,0001.
The jobbers were well aware that the public
would have cheerfully submitted to the loss of
all the money which had been lavished by the
Pikeists in procuring their bill, even although
the bulk of that money had been squandered in
profligacy ; but they calculated, and but too
truly, that many would stand aghast at the mere
contemplation of making an entire sacrifice of
the larger amount of 150,000/. The press, how-
ever, did not participate in these fears. It
stigmatised, in unmeasured terms, the despotic
and iniquitous conduct of such of our local
rulers as gloried in having riveted the chains
around the necks of those who had in an evil
hour lent them their confidence. The journals
named above called on the town at large to
resent and resist the infliction of the scheme, at
whatever sacrifice, they pointed out the certainty
of its involving a cost frightful to contemplate,
that its advantages never could compensate its
defects, or justify the risk incurred in carrying
it out.

WHEN the true character of the Rivington
Pike Water Scheme became apparent, the Press
of Liverpool were, with one exception, loud in
their denunciation alike of the job and its
authors, the exception yielding to the force of
circumstances, lent its feeble advocacy to the
fraud. The truly free and independent
journals, however, stood by the honour of their
order; and, to their credit be it spoken, on this
great question they RICA all differences of a poli_
tical:or religious character, and joined heart and
hand to neutralise the fallacies of the mistaken
advocates of the scheme, and expose the rotten-
ness and treachery of those who were its
interested concoctors and promoters. Thus we
found the Tory Mail, Standard, and Courier
making common cause with the Radical Mercury,
Journal, and Chronicle—each vieing with his
neighbour who would be loudest in condem-
nation of one of the vilest projects ever saddled
on an unfortunate community. Nor were their
efforts unavailing. Such was the influence
exercised on the public mind by the writers of
the Anti-Pike press that ,a social revolution was
•
effected as complete as any on record.
At the Municipal Elections of 1849 and 1850,
the cry was not Whig or Tory, but Pike or no

The people at large responded to these views.
Public meetings were held ; petitions were got up,
and numerously signed and presented, not only
to the Town Council, but to the Imperial [Aegis-
lature, setting forth the wishes of the Ratepayers,
and praying that they might be freed from the
infliction of the scheme at whatever loss. The
despots of the Town Hall, however, spurned
these petitions, and not only did so, but employed
the ample funds of the Corporation, which unfor-
tunately were placed at their disposal, to stultify
the efforts of the inhabitants; in short, the Rate •
payers were basely betrayed, and sold by their own
servants. Neither the press nor the people are,
however, to blame for this state of things ; both
opposed the scheme so long as opposition
held out any hope of success, and they only
desisted to a certain extent from more active and
energetic hostility in order that the charge of fac-
tion could not be maintained against them, and
not from any altered feelings as to the character
of the job; every prediction which the honest
and consistent antagonists of this most iniquitous
scheme made through the press has been verified
to the letter.

It was to have cost only 400,0001.
It has cost upwards of 1,2.50,000/. already.
It was to be finished in five years.
Ten have elapsed, and it is not nearly com-
pleted.

The water was to have been pure and whole.

some.
It has proved disgusting and poisonous.
In short, the whole scheme has proved a rank and
scandalous deception from first to last, and as such
we, in common with most of our cotemporaries,
continue to denounce it not from factious motives,
but in order that its true character may be fully
developed. By so doing, we consider we are but
serving the interests oof the public, and protect-
ing them from further injury and injustice. In
this course, we are happy to say, we have the
example and support of the most respecta-
ble and independent of our cotemporaries,
who have not become reconciled to a hideous
crime, because it has been pursued to
what one of them calls a successful issue.
He tells his readers to "go and visit the Pike
Works, and judge with their own eyes the value
of the "senseless clamour which has been raised
against works, which are not only a credit to
this town, but to the engineering skill of the
nation." Again, he repeats, "when prejudice
has disappeared, and people can take a calm
review of the subject, these Rivington Works
will excite the admiration of people in our own
time, as they will assuredly those who may
follow us -in the next and succeeding generations.
As we have said before, we opposed these
Rivington Works as long as opposition was use-
ful or practicable ; but we are not so blind or
bigoted as to ignore the skill with which a great
scheme has been carried out, with which, we

freely confess, we had in its infancy no
sympathy."
This fulsome laudation comes with very
bad grace from our cotemporary. If the
Pike has proved the great work he represents it
to be, what value will the world attach to his
previous condemnation of it ?—Surely that must
have been the result of ignorance. And, if so
much of that ingredient entered into his previous
opinions, are those he holds at present free from
the taint ? What does our friend yet know of
the matter ? These works, of which we are told
the town may be proud, consist of four large
lodgments, and a canal, or goit, four miles long.
Of the lodgments, the embankment of one has
already broken down by its own weight, while
that of another leaks to such an extent as to have
already entailed a cost of upwards of 5,0001. on
the Corporation, in their hitherto fruitless efforts
to stop it, while the goit has been converted into
a main sewer for carrying off the filth and che-
mical refuse from a large manufacturing country.
Yet these are the works which our cotemporary
holds up as the perfection of engineering skill,
and an honour to the nation. We have heard
of people eating dirt, to such the filthy Pike wash
will no doubt be a luxurious beverage ; but we
'must protest, on behalf of ourselves and our
fellow-townsmen, against being compelled to
charge our stomachs with either the one or the
other. The people of Liverpool are not to be
befooled out of their senses by jobbing water
engineers or renegade editors ; one and all pro-
nounce the Pike water abominable, and the
whole scheme a disreputable job. Was it for the
purpose of beautifying Horwich Vale, of improv-
ing the scenery of Rivington, or of enhancing
the value of building land at Anglezark, and
Heapy, that the people of this town have been
compelled to expend a million and a half of
money ? If so, the object has been fully accom-
plished. But if that intention was to supply
the town with an abundance of good pure water,
then we say that it has been a total and complete
failure—an unqualified abortion, And let those
who doubt this do as we have done—go, and
judge for themselves.

WE are certainly surprised at the tone adopted
by some of our cotemporaries, in their remarks on
the recent convention with the French Govern-
ment, respecting the Newfoundland Fisheries.
One speaks of the valuable nature of the coast
in question to the French, on account of the
facilities the Fisheries on it gives them for man-
nine, their navy, with great solicitude, but not a
word is said of the value of the same coast to
Biitain for the same purpose. Surely if the
shores given up to the French, by the late Con-
vention, is so valuable to the French, it must be
equally so to the British. Extracts from French
reports and despatches are given, but no notice
is taken of the able and important despatches
which have emanated from the Governors of
Newfoundland to the Colonial-office. Another
(the London Times) states broadly that the
Fisheries of Newfoundland have been, from the
first discovery of the island, mainly in the hands
of the French." This, we believe, to be not the
fact—the fisheries have mainly been British.
From the ports of DartmOuth, Teignmouth,
and Poole, in the counties of Devon and Dorset,
a ►leet of vessels usually were fitted out, number-
ing from .200 to 400 sail, for the fishing on the
Banks of Newfoundland; and during the whole of
the eighteehth century, and up to the first quarter
of the nineteenth, this fishery continued in full
operation. The French, at this tinte, had no
fisheries to any thing to the same extent, either on
the Banks or shores of Newfoundland. Since
1815 the fishery on the Banks of New-
foundland, by British vessels, has been gra-
dually given up, partly on account of the
population becoming more resident on the
island, and prosecuting the fisheries along the
shore, but principally in cons,quence of the mul-
titude of French vessels which have frequented
the Banks having rendered the fish so scarce
there, that the quantity taken would not remu-
nerate the unprotected British fisherman.
It must be borne in mind that whilst this was
the case, the enormous bounties granted by the
French Government to their fishermen enabled
them to catch and carry the produce of theirlabour
to the consuming markets, and sell at prices
which were ruinous to their unprotected rivals.
Thus the Bank Fisheries were lost to the British
fisherman, and he was driven to fish along the
shores of the island, which produced a smaller
size, and a less valuable fish, as well as a smaller
quantity -per man; but the fishery along the
shore being carried on with less expense and
outlay in craft and material than the Bank
fishery was, he was able in the former position
to compete, and has competed successfully, with
his rivals.

Thus much for the facts stated by our co-
temporaries. We fear, from the remarks which
this subject has elicited, from what are gene-
rally considered Government organs, that
another attempt will be made to force
this Convention on the colony, and to pro-
cure its ratification by the Imperial Par-
liament ; and we earnestly call the attention
of the public to the facts of the case, so that so
important a matter, affecting not only the rights
and interests of 120,000 of our fellow-subjects in
the colony of Newfoundland, but an important
source of strength to our navy, and a large con-
tributor to our commerce, may not be destroyed
by incompetent negotiators..
The only complaint that the French Govern-
ment can or does make is, that the Treaty of
1783, as ratified at the peace of 1814, gives them
an exclusive right to certain parts of the coast of
the island for fishery purposes, and that in con-
travention of this exclusive right, a few English
settlers have located themselves on the shore
claimed as secured by treaty to the French. This
exclusive right of fishing on the-shore in question
has been disputed by the British authorities, but
it is doubtful if the treaty does not give the
French what they lay claim to. However this
may be, this point can be settled on its own
merits, and if on investigation it is proved that
British settlers have located themselves where
they had no right to locate, they can be removed
by the British Government, with whom rests the
undisputed sovereignty of the whole island—the
share for fishery purposes alone having been
coded to the French.

I !The negotiators on the part of the French,
have, however, in approaching the English
Government, proposed a plan by which the
removal of those persons who have, according to
their views, wrongfully located themselves, may
be prevented, and this plan has been matured
into the Convention which is now causing so
much dissatisfaction amongst the colonists and
those connected with them.
By this Convention the concurrent right 'of

fishing on a portion of 80 to 100 miles of th
Labrador shore, now, and always, exclusively
used as a British fishing ground, by a large
number of fishermen front England and New-
foundland, and the right to enter upon, and take
bait, in all the southern and western part of the
English portion of the island is given to the
French in exchange for their small concession.
Now, why is there all this involvement, and
taking from one to give to another ? The simple
question is—have the French the rights they'
claim ? If they have, give them those rights ;
but do not let such wholesale destruction of
everything valuable be made, as this Convention
contemplates. Grant the French the right to
take bait on the English part of the shore,' where
the English fishermen have too little already,
and the English fishery on those shores is
ruined. Grant a concurrent right on
the coast of Labrador to the French, and
the property of those who have made in-
vestments to a very large amount on that"
shore, along with the fisheries they have for
many years carried on, are destroyed ; for the
French fisherman will come and take the fish
alongside the British fisherman, and will thrive
upon receiving the same price for the produce
of his labour (in consequence of the large,
bounties granted by his Government), which will
be total ruin to the British fisherman. The
result of the ratification of this convention would
be, that very shortly the fisheries on the shore of
Newfoundland would follow the fate of those 011
the Banks, and be totally annihilated.