The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-01-13 00:00:00

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ROBERT MULLINER,
(Successor to Goss & CO.),
(Late with Wm. Horne, London),
CARRIAGE AND HARNESS MANUFACTURER,
5g and 61, GREAT CHARLOTTE-STREET, LIVERPOOL,

town, if Mr. Jeffery's offer had been accepted
--:namely. that for an additional expenditure of
100,000/—he would have produced en additional
45,000,000 gallons, making a total supply of
90,000,000 gallons per week. " Surely, indeed," as
MY. Jeffery remarked, "some evil genius did preside
. at the introduction of such a scheme." We are sure
that our readers will find deep interest in perusing
the able. argumentative, and masterly speech of
Mr. Jeffery. He put the water committee
hors de combat, tore to pietas their flimsy and
fallacious reasoning, and gave the ratepayers of
his ward an evidence of his ability as a debater
and a man of business. We would allude to an
'admission made by Mr. Alderman Holme, namely,
that if Mr. Jeffery's proposal had been accepted,
he had no doubt the quantity of water
named, 90,000,000 gallons per week could be
produced. The motion of Mr. Bennett was nega-
tived by a vote of 32 to 10. After this, Mr. Picton
moved that the Town should not be supplied with
the Rivington water for a month, in order to afford
time to obtain further and complete analysis of the
character and component parts of the water.
Another discussion ensued, which was only a
continuation of the former arguments pro et con
The debate was enlivened by a passage of arms
between Mr. Jeffery and Mr. William Earle, and
from what took place we fancy that the hon.
member for Abereromby Ward will be slow in again
attacking Mr. Jeffrey, or attempting to interrupt
or pu t him down when in the midst of an argument.
To the report of the debate, and our remarks
respecting the analysis of the water we now refer
our readers.
The intelligence from the Continent this morning
is but of little moment. The funeral of the late
Archbishop of Paris took place on Saturday. His
assassin has been
_transferred from Mazas to th-
Conciergerie, to await his trial. He is au secret, and
watched night and day, to prevent him from corn
mating suicide. On being asked whether he had
chosen an advocate to defend him, he replied that
he did not want one, and was prepared to defend
himself, It is even reported that he threatened to
make disclosures that would necessarily lead to
his pardon. The French law does not allow a man
to be tried for his life without the aid of counsel,
and, when a prisoner refuses to name one, the court
appoints ex officio an advocate to defend him. In
the present case the president has selected M.
Nogent-Saint Laurens. It is confirmed that the
trial will take place on Saturday, the 17th, and that
M. le Premier President Delaugle will preside.
The intelligence concerning the arrangement of
the Neufchatel difficulty is confirmed by our
French advices. The assent of the Swiss Federal
Assembly is only wanting to render the adjustment
complete, and it is fully anticipated that this
representative body will supply the want in its
sitting fixed for to-morrow, the 14th, that is to say,
one day before the Prussian menace was to be
executed. It is true that, according to telegraphic
information, the official Prussian paper contains
a flat denial that mediation has taken place,
but we hope to be justified in assuming
that this means nothing but the self-evident
fact that, with the peculiar character which the
mediation bore, official cognizance of it has been
purposely withheld from the Prussian Government..
It, the meantime we are assured, in letters from
Berlin, that so strong is the confidence which the
King entertains in the preservation of peace, that
orders have been already issued to stop all further
preparations for war.