The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-04-01 00:00:00

points that need explanation. Is it not a fact
that a certain limited area was assigned for the
interment of bodies ? Surely the trustees or
directors could not believe that this area was
expansible like a piece of India rubber. They
could hardly suppose that an unlimited number
of bodies could be contained in a limited area.

To those gentlemen who were receiving fifteen
per cent. on the capital invested, with occasional
bonuses in addition, did it never occur to ask
whether that money could have been fairly and
honestly acquired. They were bound to ask
themselves some such question. As trustees for
the public, it was their duty to see that the
engagement which they undertook was faithfully
observed. Has this been done ? On the con-
trary, has there not been manifested a most cen-
surable negligence of all this ? And to aggravate
the whole case, it was given in evidence that a
great part of the burial-ground was still
untouched. Graves were crowded with coffins,
sometimes four or five were massed together in a
single grave, creating a public nuisance, in direct
contravention of the order in council, that
required one interment in one grave, thus most
cruelly and hypocritically sporting with the grief
of sorrowing mourners, endangering the public
health, and then breaking faith with that public.
We can find no language sufficiently strong
to express our abhorrence and indignation
against such proceedings.
No feelings of lenity or partiality- for
duals should prevent the amplest exposure.
Tendeiness to individuals, in a case like this, is
treachery to the community. The public press
of the country exists, in part, for the castigation
of such offenders. Let those fear who do evil.
On the contrary, "he that doeth the truth
cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made
manifest." We nurture no private vengeance
against private individuals, and we should desire
that any explanation offered may make things
look less black, and less revolting; but, standing
on the facts already brought to light, we do feel,
in common with the whole town, that some
parties, at present un-named, are much to blame,
rind have much to account fir ; and we desire that
the forthcoming examination may be as complete
and searching as the importance of the case de-
mands, that the right saddle may be placed on
the right horse, that the strongest reprobation
may be attached to such foul delinquency. If
the committee and the public will back us up in
our endeavour to obtain the justice of publicity,
we shall have some guarantee that scenes and
transactions so unhallowed and revolting, may
not disgrace and outrage this great community.

OUR newly-fledged cotemporary, ycleped the
Daily Mail, in its publication of yesterday, con-
tains a leading article on the subject of the " Bale
and Truss" disputation, which, to make use of a
vulgarism, " smells very strong of the shop."
The writer would have been more consistent if he
had spoken out in his real character, and adopted
the singular instead of the plural pronoun ; there
being no occasion for further mystification in
the matter by assuming the editorial distinction,
to which he is not professionally, as we incline to
believe, entitled. Perambulating, as yet, only by
.the assistance of leading strings, we are inform-
ed, in the first paragraph of the article, that
" according:to the principles of English law, a
man who has been once tried and acquitted is
to be accounted innocent for all time, and to be
free alike from accusation and molestation."

Now, without venturing for a moment
to question the propriety and wisdom of such a
law, we take the liberty of stating, for the.benefit
of this guileless adventurer, that no conclusion
can be sound where the premises are rotten. The
enquiry instituted by the Town Council, and
subsequently travestied by an out-door commit-
tee of merchants and shipowners, are not to be
recognised as entitled to the name of a trial. In
the one case the evidence was, in the mangled
report, de facto ignored; in the other, no evi-
dence was taken but that of the party or parties
implicated. The " principles of English law"
demand, before the trial is complete, that all the
facts of the case shall be submitted to the con-
sideration of the jury; a most material feature,
and one which, beyond all doubt, was, for what
reason we know not, entirely excluded from the
deliberations of the Coniuiittee in question. It
is for this very reason—because the trial by the
Special Committee of the Town Council was not
decided according to the evidence—and because
the Committee of Merchants omitted to hear the
evidence in confirmation of the charge—that this
matter is again brought before the bar of public
opinion, and, in point of fact, remains to this
time as it were virtually nnenquired into, and
without a full and satisfactory settlement.
We do not agree in the opinion expressed by
this amateur editor, that if Mr. TURNER had
taken his stand, on what is laughably enough
termed the "verdicts" of 1843, and had refused
to re-open the question on the Hustings, that
public opinion would have been satisfied ; on the
contrary, the investigation in both instances, in
effect, was little better than a burlesque, and the
necessity for further enquiry was strengthened,
not by what we are told by this writer, as to Mr.
TURNER being "conscious of his own integrity,"
but by the unparalelled state of excitement pro-
duced on the subject being mentioned—thus,
harmonizing but indifferently with the mews
conscia recti, and that huge profession of reli-
gious principle, of which we have heard and
read, until we are sick to repletion.

Some schoolmaster should take this would-be
editor in hand (we recommend the Corporation
schools for various pecuniary: reasons) judging
from the comparison he attempts to institute
between the charge as to the non-payment of
Town Dues, and a shipper of goods and a ship
broker; as to the terms of freight inserted in a
bill of lading, not being those actually agreed
upon. The attempted analogy is absurd—in the
one case, a colour is indubitably given to an un-
truth (highly culpable in itself); but it is con-
fined to a transaction between two individuals,

each for themselves ; in the other, the matter at
issue is public property, the moneys of the
people ; funds to which, with the exception of the
freemen, the whole mercantile community alike
were bound to contribute. But supposing the
analogy to hold good, we have yet to learn that
two wrongs make one right, or that one
fraud •justifies another. Mr. THOMAS BOL-
TON, in few words, on the Hustings, put the
matter in its real light, and we wish we could say
we were satisfisd with the reply.
Mr. BOLTON enquired— _ _

As you, are a candidate for the representation of Liver-
pool, I exercise the privilege of asking you a question or
two. It has been publicly stated that you entered bales in
the Custom House as trusses. ,It has,been publicly stated
that you have entered boxes as cases, and that you paid 1 d
on those goods instead of 23. What is your answer to
these questions ? (Uproar.)
Mr. Tamer : To the best of my knowledge and belief,
every local due was paid to the council of the borough. It
was paid by my house to the collector of the borough, and
whatever we paid was the sum charged to the parties for
whom wo acted. If anything else than that occurred either
in my office or anywhere else,it was without my knowledgt,
and would have met with my severe condemnation. (" Oh,
oh," and " Why didn't you pay it up ?") ,
Mr. Bolton : It has been publicly stated that you charged
the owners of those goods 23, while youonly paid ld ?

Mr. Turner : I am not aware that I ever did, and I would
havo dismissed the clerk that did it. I never charged more
than I paid in any case, and as a man of honour and a gen-
tleman of conscience—(a voice : " Turner can't afford to
keep a conscience")—l have never charged one farthing
more than I paid.

Here is the rub : What was the sum paid—what
was the sum charged ? Nothing short of a fresh
investigatiou of the whole of the facts, by an
impartial committee, can remove the unfavour_
able impression on the minds of the public, in
regard to this most painful of all subjects.

The cruel allusion to Mr. AIKIN at the close
of this article—unjust as it is untrue—we pass
over in silence, fearful of awakening those strong
feelings which beat in such perfect unison with
the conduct and character of the true practical
Christian.

THE WHOLESALE RESURRECTIONISTS.—The ne-
farious doings of the Liverpool wholesale resur-
rectionists are attacting great attention, not
only in this town, but in the metropolis. The
London inquirer of Saturday last contains the
following :—" GOD'S ACRE : It is no wonder that
the poet Longfellow has sung so lovingly of

' That ancient Saxon phrase, which calls
The burial ground God's Acre.'

It is a name so full of holy thought and high
suggestion. God's Acre ! The field which God
himself has sown, where corruption shall spring
up in incorruption, and where mortal shall
blossom into immortality. God's Acre ! How
quiet it sounds ! God's fresh air must play. around
it, and the bird's will sing above it. Who would
not feel a fresh solemnity and awe in treading
the grass of—God's Acre. It is often said there is
nothing in a name. We know there is very much
in a name—in some names, everything. Think of
God's Acre, and then think of the name of that
loathsome cemetery in Liverpool, of which such
horrible revelations have been made. Necropolis--
city of the dead— is its name. It was founded by
a joint stock company, and a minister of repute
was appointed the resident chaplain. We will not
enter into the revolting particulars, which are
already known to many of our readers,
and on which, we learn, criminal proceed-
ings will be taken. The City of the Dead
became a city more ghastly and more
cruel than any City of the Living. What feeling
of sanctity could attach to a Necropolis of a clique
of money making sectarians? The company has
paid well ; and for the rest, as old Sir Thomas
Browne asks, 'Who knoweth the fate of his bones,
or how often he is to be buried ? Who bath the
oracle of his ashes, or whither they are to be
scattered ?' Meanwhile we would urge our co-
religionists in the larger towns to follow the
example of the noble and energetic Unitarian
Church at Bury, who have made for themselves a
burial ground, and built their little chapel upon it.
It is not that we would be isolated from those
who differ from us—but that we would be with
those who loved us best, and knelt with us it
common worship. The Churchman thinks us
unworthy to lie side by side with him, and fences
us away with a"party wall, or, at best, a sufficient
paling. Nor, after our experience of this
Necropolis. can we have any faith in those—
not Churchmen—who feel for us no greater
love, and for the idead a less sacred reverence.
At any rate, let us, members of one spiritual
household, rest together, in the same hope of that
life eternal' which is the knowledge of the one
Father GOD, and the one Lord CHRIST. To us
such a burial place would he a GOD'S Acre
indeed. The thought of it would hallow life,
and sweeten death. It would be made beautiful
with the memories of departed friends. It would
link us to the living by new and very tender
ties."

THE AUSTRALIAN MAlLS.—By`telegraph we learn
that the Jura, which sailed from Southampton,
12th March, with the mails for Australia, arrived
at Malta 21st March. The Cambria, from Mar•
seilles, with the mails for Ceylon and Australia,
arrived at Malta from MNrseilles same day as the
Jura, and transferred the despatches to that vessel.
Up to the present time there is no intelligence of
the Oneida, which was due at Suez about the
beginning of the month. The mails were appointed
to leave Sydney on the 27th January, and as the
contract time for its delivery in London is 4f days,
it follows that it is now 18 days overdue. The
extent of the inconvenience likely to arise from
this interruption in the due transit of the mails, is
hardly as yet appreciated by the general public,
who no doubt look only for the overdue homeward
mails, forgetting that the mails despatched from
Southampton on the 24th February, and 12th inst.,
are both probably lying at Suez, waiting for a
conveyance to Australia,.

THE GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY OF CANADA —A cor-
respondent writes—" It begins now to flash upon
the public mind that the traffic department of the
Grand Trunk Railway is being shockingly worked.
Much complaint is perpetually being raised at the
gross delays of freights at the several stations, and
of course very much loss and inconvenience to
merchants is the inevitable result. This mis-
management we are inclined to attribute, not only
in part, but to a very great extent, to the immense
number of raw and inexperienced hands filling ap-
pointments along the line: Green Englishmen and
senseless nincompoops, who never do anything at
home, but whom influence and patronage and
friends in office, and not merit or ability, have
pitch-forked OR to the Grand Trunk line. If our
first class English railway,' goes on in this style,
and does not take measures for very materially
altering its present very upopular arrangements,
it is very evident it can never hope to become a
paying concern, as every week much of the freights
which might have been secured to it, had its tariff
been not quite so preposterous and the delays on
the road less frequent, finds its way through
speedier and in every way more suitable channels."

CANADIAN PROGRESs.—Verhaps it would be im-
possible to have hit-upon a more vivid illustration
of the progress which, within tho last few years,
Canada has made in her means of locomotion than
that afforded by the Postmaster General's • report,
and from which documnet, in order that our
readers may see the length of time taken in winter
to transmit the mails between the two ends of the
province, we make no apology for the following

extract, which shows how letters went in 1853,
and how they go in 1857—two pictures well worth
looking at :-
1853 1857
Quebec to Windsor

" to London .... , ... 9 "- 45 "
" to Hamilton ....
" to Niagara .
" to Owen Sound. . lO " QI CC
.2
" to Guelph
" to Toronto .... .
" to Coburg
" to Be'villa '
" to Kingston
" to Brockville ... .
" to Ottowa..

This, then, is what just four years have done for
travelling in •the Canadas. From calculations
given, a result very favourable to the Canadian line
is shown. The present Government seem very
anxious to subsidize these steamers with the
additional £50,000 ; and it is not doubted but
that Messrs Edmonstone, Allan, and Co., will
have it secured to them. Mr. Hugh Allan has
lately been at Toronto, and nothing else on earth
could have brought him but to keep the Ministry
to the point, now that the question is likely to
come to a speedy crisis. The general public seem
very favourable to this firm getting the preference,
as it justly regards them as being the great instru-
ments in opening up the St. Lawrence navigation,
and obtaining for the route so good a name
among Europeans; and think it but just that such
enterprise should receive its reward ; but mer-
chants, more selfish than patriotic, and who stickle
for " clean bills of lading," are not so warm in their
recommendations of Messrs. Edmonstone, Allan,
and Co., as they consider them rather hard cus
tomers upon this score. The opposition, however,
to Messrs. Edmonstone, Allan, and Co., getting
the increased subsidy, is, at all events, an utter
absurdity, and will net weigh much, we fancy, in
the opinion of the Canadian Government.

INSURANCE COMPANIES IN CANADA.—Perhaps
about the most important measure which has been
brought before Parliament since its reassembling
is the bill oF the Hon. John Hilyard Cameron,
to amend the Act relating to Insurance Companies
and which new bill has for its object the making
it compulsory on such offices as do business within
the province to deposit in Government securities
£25,000, or at least the half of that sum, as a
guarantee fund for their standing and capa-
bilities to meet losses. Such a measure as
this is one very much wanted, and will prove of
much service in two ways ; for, in the first place it
will to the.public at large, prove a means of protec,
tion against " Bogus" offices, and secondly it will
enable the really sterling companies to contend
more effectually against the low rates of premium
and cutting practices of offices of very questionable
standing. We have too many offices like that
famous one of Mr. Montague Tigg, and which
thrive and flourish well enough so long as the
premiums keep coming over the counter, but
which are very likely, on some unlucky day, when,
policies fall in heavily, to go to immortal smash,
and leave the burnt out public in the lurch. The
Canadians are, therefore, in hopes that this new
bill may become law, as it would certainly be ove
of the most effectual modes of driving these mush-
room concerns out of the field.

SIR CHARLES WOOD. —On his return for Halifax on
Saturday, Sir Charles Wood said that ten times had he
now been returned representative for Halifax, and he wad
proud to feel that the electors had stamped with their
approbation the conduct of that Government of which he
was a member. Glad, indeed, was he to tell them that
he had received intelligence, which held out better
prospects than ever, that our affairs in China might he
arranged without further bloodshed. (Cheers.) He
received on Friday night a telegraphic message from the
Admiral at Malta, that the Emperor of China; as well as
ourselves, disapproved the conduct of Commissioner Yeh
—(loud cheers)—and that orders were sent to him to
use every exertion'to conciliate the English authorities.
NEAPOLITAN PRlSONERS.—According to the corres-
pondence of the Corriere Mercantile, of Genoa, the governor
of the prisoner at Cefalu, in order to deaden the cries of
persons under torture, has imported from Palermo an
instrument for the purpose. It consists of an iron band
round the heat', with a band over the head, and a band of
iron wire passing over the ears and round under the lower
jaw, with another band under the ear round the back of
the neck, keeping the jaw piece in its place. By the
tightening of the wire band the patient is compelled to
keep his jaw firmly closed. A constable who had fetched
a doctor to one of the patients whom he had supposed to
be dying, was severely punished for his humanity, although
the governor of the prison, under the injunctions of the
doctor, permitted the band to be removed from the prisoner
in question.

Loss OF A CLIPPER SHIP.—We regret to record the loss
of the new iron clipper ship Charlemagne, of 1,017 tons,
William Reid commander, and belonging to Messrs. Cree,
Skinner, and Co., and M`Arthar and Binnie's line of
Australian packets. This magnificent vessel left this port
will a fair wind on Thursday last for 'Melbourne, with a
full and valuable cargo, and upwards bf a dozen first class
passengers. The tug-steamer and pilot left her at Pladda
about 11, p.m., and between 2 and 3, a.m., of Friday she
went on shore, during thick weather, at Feeochan Bay, on
the coast of Cantrie, about. six miles to the south of Camp
beltown, and at the entrance of the Sound of Sanada. The
crew and passengers were landed in the boats, and when
the latter left the vessel she was lying with seven feet of
water in the hold, and her deck towards the sea, being
apparently in a very perilous position. From Vie effects
of the easterly gales, the Charlemagne was breaking up on
Monday, while her cargo was washing out of the hold and
being strewed along the coast. No hopes can, therefore, be
entertained of saving the unfortunate vessel, which, along
with her cargo, is said to be valued at £llO,OOO. Both are
covered by insurance. She had several valuable horses on
board, all of which were drowned.—Greemeels Advertiser.
THE VICTORIA CROSS.—The Medical Times and Gazette,
commenting on the fact that no medical officer has
received this decoration, says. " One surgeon went out
of the advanced trench before the Redan, and carried in
the body of the Colonel of the 3rd Buffs, under a tremen-
dous fire. Another assisted wounded officers of the
Light Cavalry Brigade at Balaklava, far in front of the
advanced picquets of the French Chasseurs, and at the
most imminent personal risk. A third saved the life of
the Duke of Cambridge at Inkerman, in a hand to hand
conflict. A fourth assisted Captain Oust, at the Alma,
when severely wounded in the thickest of the fight. And
these were no isolated examples. No danger kept back
the medical officers from the performance of their duty ;
and surely, to say the very least, there was as much valour
shown in assisting a wounded man under a heavy fire as
in joining in the conflict. One reason we have heard
assigned for not giving the Cross to medical officers is
remarkable, and we may add that it was given us by a
gentleman in a high official position :-=" It is not can.
sidered advisable to encourage medical officers to
distinguish themselves for valour. They are quite ready
enough as it is to volunteer for dangerous duty, and if we
were to reward them as we do others, they would all be
killed, and we should have no doctors left for the troops."
This may be complimentary, but it is not encouraging.
STARTLING TURF DIFCLOSUREL—An extraordinary sen-
sation has been created in racing circles daring the past
week, by the disclosure of many acts of dishonesty on the
part of a jockey, which have been attended with the most
disastrous results to those who, placing the most implicit
confidence in his honesty, employed him. The circum-
stances of the case are as follow, and in order that the
innocent may not he condemned for the guilty, we have no
reserve in laying before our readers the true facts of this
hideous blot on the morality of the turf. The delinquent's
name is John Quinton, and it will be recollected that, on
the second day of Brighton Races, last year, the suspicious
manner in which he rode Theodora, when beaten by
Manganese for the Champagne Stakes, led to an open
expression of opinion that he had " pulled" her ; and so
strong was the current of public opinion upon the subject,
that Mr. Hargreaves, the owner of the mare, thought it
only prudent to publish a statement of the bets he bad on
the race, which appeared in our columns, and to deny, in
the strongest terms, any anticipation in Theodora's defeat.
Quinton's excuse—that the mare " died away to nothing
in his hands"—was accepted with some degree of miss
giving, we admit, by the public ; and the matter appeared
to have dropped until within a short period of the present
time, when Mr. Robinson, his chief employer, having
reason to be dissatisfied with several of his races, made a
strict investigation into his conduct, and extracted trona
him a confession that he hal not only "pulled" Theodora,
but also several horses of his own, and other gentlemen • and
that he was instigated to do so by an individual residing
at Birmingham, who, for some time past, has been obliged
to keep outside the ring: A large London betting man's
name is also freely mixed up with the matter. It is to ba
hoped that the Jockey Club will take up the case, if it is ;
brought before them, and make such an example of the °
delinquents as will effectually check a recurrence of such
infamous practices hereafter.—Bell's Life.