Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-12-24 00:00:00

marry her, and when passing through the wood
together, he troachetously murdered and robbed
her of her money.
One of these social events, so pleasant to record,
a public recognition of took place on Tues-
day, "Mr William Howell," writes a Birmingham
cotempo,ary, " a gentleman hang and favourably
known in Birmingham as a teacher and lecturer,
was invited to meet a large number of his old and
present pupils and friends, and was presented with
a purse containing two hundred pounds, as a testi-
monial of esteem for his character, and gratitude
for past services.
At one of the London Police-courts, on Tuesday,
the Rev. E. J. May, the head master of the Brewer's
Company's Schools, was charged before the Lord
Mnyor with having inflicted excessive corporal
punishment, with a cane, upon one of his scholars.
The Lord Mayor expressed his indignation at the
size and thickness of the weapon used ; and evi-
dence was given to prove that the boy must have
suffered acutely under the punishment. As the
defendant contended that Z.-le had, in flogging his
pupil about the thighs, done no more than his duty,
and therefore entertained a " conscientious" scruple
to making an apology to the boy's father, he was
committed for trial.

issues lying idle in its coffers, is perfectly
monstrous. The folly of resorting to extreme
pressure is shown by the astounding rapidity
with which the desired objects of our money
rulers can be attained. The amount of extra
circulation required, when the Bank Charter was
suspended, was only 2,000,000/., and this
demand was doubled by the public alarm, caused
by advancing the rate of interest first to eight,
and then to nine and ten per cent.
We question if there was more money required
for domestic circulation in November, than there
was in July, August, and September last. Two
or three millions more gold may have been
wanted to. balance our foreign trade accounts,
and because this momentary drain was about to
take place, the rates of interest were advanced to
two per cent. above the famine maximum, and in
less than two months the losses of trade and
commerce amount to 150,000,000/. ! For such
appalling nationll evils as these some- practical
remedy must be found by the mercantile
community. Our merchants and traders must
watch closely the movements of the discount
market day by clay, and when the rate of
interest exceeds five per cent. hasten to supply
themselves with cash for the coming crisis. Our
leading merchants shoul,l, also, invite Messrs.
OVEREND GURNEY and Co., and some others
of the largest discount Houses of London, to
open branch establishments in Liverpool, where
money might be deposited on call, and discounts
obtained at the Lombard-street rates. These
houses would be able to find money for Liverpool
as they do now for London, without going to the
Bank of England. We should then have •a strong
money-power placed between the commerce ef our
port and those banks which must go to Thread-
needle-street, to re-discount their, paper at an
exorbitant " shave." This will not give us the
enlarged basis of commercial accommodation our
expanded, or Free Trade transactions, with all
the world, imperatively demand ; but it will
secure us a due share of the available circulation
of the day, at first cost. This would amount to
half per cent. on an annual export and impor
trade of 80,000,0001. Add to this 20,000,000
for the domestic or local transactions of Liverpoo'
and Lancashire for each year, and the saving of
one half per cent, will be extended to a total

industrial condition of the country before it

arrives.

Colossal fortunes have been realised by the
national distress. Political immorality and the
besotted selfishness of the moneyocracy have been
satiated. The cravings of their worst passions
have been appeased, and we may now fairly
expect a short interval of prosperity. Smiling
spring will bring with it abundance of employ-
ment for labour, and its concomitant activity in
trade; and a dreary winter will be compensated
by a bustling summer. We must bear, then,
with moral fortitude, the political aggravation of
social wrongs. An allwise Providence still
directs the destiny of nations. The promised
greatness and power of man is but dawning on
the Christian horizon. The stars that are to
lead us to glory arc still afar off. The human
litzhts we so blindly follow are on the wane.
Great luminaries of effete wisdom are dwindling
down to mere glow-worms—ephemeral sparks
whose lustre passes away in a night. It
is impossible that such things can last,
or that the spiritual and material fruits
of the triumphs over tyranny, sin, and
death we are about to celebrate shall be perverted
from . their sacred purposes, and the possibility
of Christian progress abandoned even for
the impossibility of moral retrogression. This
season is typical of changes which must come to
pass, and bring with them universal amelioration.
These changes embrace great temporal advance_
ment, as well as eternal rewards, " From Him who
believes nothing shall be hidden," is one of the
promises which carries with it the hope of an inter-
minable race of progress and civilisation. When
all join in the feast of this Season, and nothing shall
be hidden, the political trickster and the usurer
will have passed away with the dust of the
heathen. They will be. despised alike by the
children of NERO, and the enlightened sons o
Israel.

The Staffordshire Colliers have had another
meeting, and the men appear to have considered
their position and attendant ciriumstances with
calmness, and with soand judgment, and they
therefore vary wisely resolved to return to their
wcrk at once. Two or three suggestions, for im-
proving their position in any future crisis, were
made by an intelligent member of the body ; and
these were unanimously appr,ved, and a good
working committee was formed for the purpose
of carrying into practise the suggestions made to
them

The London Police have commenced a crusade
against the West-end supper-houses, where excise-
able articles can be proved to have been sold after
twelve o'clock at night. Several informations have
been heard before Mr. Beadon, at the Marlboroug'2..
street Police-court, and in most cases the magis-
trate inflicted a -£5O penalty.
Of local news there is not much of importance '
this morning. Yesterday the distribution of prizes
at the Collegiate Institution took place, and we
supply our readers with an ample, report of the
interesting pr.)eeedings.
The weakly meeting of the West Derby Board of
Guardians was held yesterday. Some few remarks
were made upon the recent trial—the " Guardians
of the West Derby Union v James Goodwin"—
and certain rather personal expressions were used
by one member of the B-)ard towards another, but,
harmony having been resored, they proceeded to
discuss the routine business.

These are the pros:int% which are before the
Christian world; and if this day should pass over
many in want and sorrow, let all remember that
each Christmas-day brings us nearer to the
hour of triumph over man's corruption, igno-
rance, and blindness. Thee on whom present
fortune smiles, need not be apprehensive of
danger from a transition so vast, yet certain.
When the furious struggles between popular
virtue and party corruption, between sullen igno-
rance and tutored intellect, between enlarged
knowledge and sickening dimness of natural pre-
ception, shall have ceased, there will be more
real safety for the timid, and no need of
protection for property. The squalid misery
which now sits on so many millions of our
fellow-beings, must follow all the other distortions
and scourges of ages of darkness. Let the rich
then, be merry, and the poor joyful. We
vouchsafe nothing. The season calls upon us to
herald the truth as it appears before us to-day,
and to remind others of that for which vp_ have
pass." If in doing this we make a time of almost
general sadness appear the advent of eternal
sunshine, peace, and plenty, it must not be
ascribed to our ingenuity—but let the "praise
be given where the praise is due." We would
have all make merry, despite the passing frowns
of the hour rolling over our heads. Time has
its inexhaustible store of treasure, upon which
man may draw more largely day after day, with-
out fear of disappointment ; and, although
penury may punish, corruption stultify the
progress of nations, and leave deso!ate the fairest
regions of the earth for a while, each returning.
Christmas-day will witness more men better
fed, clothed, informed, and more strongly wedded
b universal peace and good-will than there were
the year before. We may therefore say to all,
"be merry, be of good cheer." The Christmas
of 1857 may have only brought with it that
darkness which precedes the brightness of a
glorious sunrise.

of 100,000,000/.
Few such fields present themselves to veritable
capatalists to, embark in, as bill brokers, or legiti-
mate commercial discounters. The clamour so
suddenly raised by the London Times, for a re-
duction in the Bank rate of discount really means
nothing. It only represents the wants of JONES
LOYD & Co., of Manchester, and mourning over
the « fix" in which the ten pr cent Cabinet have
placed JONES LOYD and Co., of London. M.
"Pig's" advocate could not stand by and see "Pork"
so wantonly depressed. Some people seem to
think that Lord OvErtsToNE has discovered that,
in order to retain the low fixed price of cold.
overboard, and that the London Times has gone
round on its horns, as in duty bound, to
prepare the way for the change. But, be that
as it may, panics are practical evils, for which
the commercial men of England must find a prac-
tical remedy. We have just seen that indulging
in hopes, and waiting for the rate of discount to
reach seven, eight, and ten per cent, only pro-
duces national desolation, and that when banks
begin to apply the screw, is the moment to lay
in a stock of gold or legal tender. If we
are to. have panics, let us have them at
six per cent, and before fifty per cent, of
the mercantile substance of the country has
been eaten up by usury. Let American and
Continental merchants and traders act simul-
taneously on the same principle, and then
commerce, in the fulness of its prosperity, and
unshaken integrity, will carry forward the great
work of the world's civilisation ; and by its
indomitable powers govern all for the good of all
men. Some such change must be at hand, for
no less a measure of amelioration can follow such
a mass of long-endured evils and universa
desolation as that from which the commerce o
the universe is just now immerging.

LEWIS AND COMPANY'S NEW ESTABLISHMENT FOR BOY'S
CLOTdING —Number of boys clothed for the week ending
Saturday, December 19th, 814; corresponding week last
year, 494—increase, 320.
THE HAVANA CIOII2 COMPANY.—Such is the style and
title of a Joint Stock Concern, orgenized under the Limited
Liabilitiy Act, far the purchase and sale of cigars of foreign
(not European) growth aad manufacture, and the purchase
amd sale of foreign tobacco. The company is organizetl
under favourable auspicies, and the direct'jrate is of a
most influential character The head offices are in London,
and business will be commenced in a few days.
CHRISTMAS FESTIVIT LES.—The merryseason of Christmas
must not be interfered with by a temporary money panic.
now passing rapidly into a bygone! The festive board,
surrounded by hundreds of happy faces, and loaded with
such good things as only a Christmas demand can produce,
must of necessity be kept well replenished with over
flowing tankards of good Christmas Ale, brilliant,
sparkling, and of delicious flavour. We strongly recom-
mend our friends and the public to lose no time in ordering
a supply of Aspinall's celebrated Christmas Ale, as
advertised in our columns. Private families can have
either a 9 gallon or an 18 gallon cask, which are very con-
venient sizes. The quality is excellent, and when we say
the ale is brewed at the Anchor Brewery, 4irkenheact, no
further comment of guarantee is necessary.—Liverpool
LECTURE, COLLEGIATE INSTITUIE.—The last of the series
of lectures teat have been given on the part of the Young
Men's Christian Association, was delivered last night, by
the Rev. F. A. West, Through some misunderstanding,
the Meyor did Pot take the chair on the occasion, as was
previously aenounced. In his absence, Mr. Gee occupied
it for the evening. The rev, lecturer adopted as his sebject,
" C mper, as a Christian and a Poet." The lift, the
studies, the abilities, and especially the Christian character
of this great and good man, were reviewed by the rev.
gentleman, who was warmly applauded throughout his
delivery. The attendance was no: so large last night as
usual. This may be eccounted for by the fimily
pr,narations necessary on the near approach of Christmas,
CLOSE OF ALLSOP'S ROYAL WAX WORK EXHIBITION,
LIME•STREET, LIVERPOOL, —The above splendid establish-
ment will positively close on the 25th of January, 1858,
ai bout fail. Mc. Allsop respectfully announc s that he
has just added full-length figures (correct likenesse.) of the
Rev. Mr. Spurgeon and General Ilevelrck, and a uambar
of ether beautiful figures, as an addition for the Christmas
holidays. Mr. A. respectfully begs to inform his friends
and the public that he is going to travel with his Wax-
wc rk Figures; therefore, after the close of his Exhibition,
the proprietor has given instructions to Mr. Branch to sOl
by auction the whole of the splendid Statuary in the
Sculpture Galleries, all the plate looking-glasses, twelve
gas eh indeliers, a number of single brackets, a great
variety of choice baste, and the whole of the timber in the
Sculpture Galleries. Mr. A. would be 'willing to come to
Satisfactory terms with the next incon)ing tenant to let the
galleries stand,

IT would be unpardonable mockery to bid the
English nation a " merry Christmas" at the close
of the memorable year 1857. The terrible ordeal
through which the industry and commerce of the
world are passing will exclude many hundreds of
thousands of the best amongst us from a partici.
pation in this great Christmas feast. Spiritually,
there is no bar to the excess of human enjoyment
for the million. They can revel in the glories of
Scriptural promises, enjoy the feast of revealed
truth, and rise refreshed with the comfort faith
brings to hope; and all this can be secured to the
multitude without any profanation of Divine law,
or vain efforts to remove mortal responsibility
from man's shoulders, and calling the sufferings
of the poor and industrious masses an atonement
for national sins. The want and misery stalking
over the land at this festive season, are of man's

creation. No scarcity or epidemic, no invasion,
fire, or flood, has left the thousands of Briti,h
hearths desolate and comfortless to-day. If any
allusion is to be made to this most painful fact,
let the truth be told. Let the sufferers and their
richer brethren hear that usury and panic have
deprived the working man of his share of this,
day's rejoicing, in the midst of an abundance of
everything the earth can bring forth. We trust,
however, we shall be able to wish all classes of
this great commercial public a " happy new
year." Near as the first day of 1858 really is,
we anticipate a very general improvement in the

THE NORTHERN TIMES.---LIVERPOOL, THURSDA_YI DECEMBER 24, 1857

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