The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-01-08 00:00:00

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At twelve o'clock, at 1, Oldhall-street, 100 bales and
1200 bundles Piassava.—How and Barclay.
At twelve o'clock, at the brokers' saleroom, 7, Exchange-
chambers, 2 tons fine Selected American Bees' Wax.
- - and 18 casks Tallow Oil.—Francis J, Eaton.

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ANIUSENIENTS, PUBLIC MEETINGS, &c.

THIS DAT.

Theatre Royal—Piece and Pantomime-7 p.m.'
Royal Amphitheatre—Equestrian Company-7 p.m.
Royal Colosseum—General Entertainment-6 30 p.m.
Liverpool:Academy's Exhibition-10 a.m. to 10 p.m.j
St. George's Hall—Organ Performances-8 p.m.
Freemason's Hall—Gallery of Anatomy-11 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Queen's Hall—Organophonic Band-8 p.m.
Clayton Hall—Miss Julia St. George-8 p.m.
Allsop's New Crystal Palace-10 a.m. to 10 p ro.l
Hope Hall—Lecture on " Temptation"-7.30 p.m.

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 107.

THE DAY'S NEWS.

The Montmorency arrived in the Channel on
Monday, and was off Dublin on Tee3day, and will
doubtless reach the Mersey ere this days paper is
in the hands of the majority of our readers. She
sailed from Melbourne on the 18th October, and
has fully X 400,000 worth of gold dust, which will
Li very opportune, for although it is not likely that
more than half will be purchased by the Bank of
Eleoland, any addition to the stock of the precious
metals in that establishment is of importance at
the present time. The elections in Victoria and
.IsILW South Wales were still proceeding, but so far
as they had gone, they were in favour of the liberal
candidates. In the latter colony, Mr. Wilson
Parker, the new Premier, had been returned,
avoiding, so far as our knowledge extends, another
ministerial 'crisis. The gold fields were
i?Veil More prolific than heretofore, and.
the escorts to Melbourne showed that the
yield was of an enormous description. Tak
ing everything into consideration, the colony
of Victoria Was in a most flourishing condi-
tion, but readers in England will be at a loss to
fiord a reason for the deprivation of the liberty of
tlie subject, as instanced in the following pant-
e .apla taken from the correspondence of a Mel-
bourne paper, viz. :—" A most intolerable nuisance
prevails at Wodonga, whereby the export of gold
under any circumstances is prohibited, and parties
journeying towards the boundary with gold on
their persons are liable to be treated as criminals,
and to have their gold seized. Wodonga has not
vet been proclaimed a port where duty may be
• received on gold, and many persons have thrust
themselves into the jaws of the official lion by
marching up to him to pay the duty." The intel
licence from New Zealand and Van Dieman's Land
is of little consequence. With that spirit of gigantic
ideas which so thoroughly pervades the South
Australias, there are two lines of telegraph between
tilt port and the city of Adelaide (which are some
seveti Miles apart), so that telegraphic messages
iai.a transmitted at a very moderate sum. For in
stance, a message of ten words or thereabouts,
including porterage, is transmitted for Gd.
In our paper of to day will be found a digest of
the despatches respecting the bombardment of
Canton, published in the Gazette of Tuesday night.
The despatches are very long, but we have endea
voured to give the more important points of these
official documents. Admiral Seymour says that
the principal merchants and gentry of Canton
told Mr. Consul Parkes that our demands
were not unreasonable. Nothing, however, ep
pears in the voluminous documents which the
Admiral has sent to confirm such a statement ;
Altogether, the more these _official papers are
perused, the more clear does it become that the
affair of the lorcha was only a pretext for opening
up larger questions with the Chinese, and for
re'selaing to extremities with that end in view. Sir
;Tan Bowling, in one of his later communications,
''.,enned a few words which show how very soon he
was prepared to forget all about the lorcha, and to
6eal only with a quarrel of the most extended pro-
-. . portions.. There is:t point on which the publication
of these additional despatches throws a totally
different light on the conduct of the
Irnoerial Commissioners from that which
Hight have been derived from the first garbled
he6ounts. Throughout the whole of the earlier
part-of the correepondeuce—in fact until deeds
•... • •

of violenc.?; had actually been resorted to by
the British Admiral, the tone of the Canton
Governor is business like and courteous, and his
replies to Mr. Parkes prompt and straightforward.
He communicates the evidence on which the alleged

pirtcy ret,:s; he eommunieates the evidence -oh
he his opinion as to the ownerstip of
11,- he will not admit—what he entirely
the believes, and has no earthly reason to belicv3--
Villa the British flag was flying on the lorclu when
the seizure was made; he cannot, and will not
apologise for an insult which has not been
offered in intant, or, as he believes, in fact. He at
once sends back all the men, except the three who
are accused of piracy and murder; he afterwards
returns even these, and when required to apologise,
he writes, in his letter of the 21st of October,
" Hereafter, if any lawless characters conceal them
selves on board foreign lorchas. you, the said Consul,
shall, of course, be informed of the same by decla-
ration (of the Imperial Commissioner), in order that
you may act in conjunction (with the Chinese
. ..thorities) in the management of such affairs."
Our Continental news this morning is important.
The difn;iulties which have delayed the execution
of the treaty between the Western Powers and
Russia is at an end. The Paris Conference have

signed a protocol, the particulars of which will be
found in another column, the most important
points of which are that the Isle of Serpents is to
ha considered as part of the mouths of the Danube,
and that by the 30th of March the Austrian troops
and the British fleet shall have evacuated the
Danubian Principalities and the interior waters of
Turkey.
The Neuchatel question seems to make little
progress, but it is evident that the opinion of
Europe leans more than ever to the side of peace.
Austria insists on a special Conference, to be
eon voked on the affairs of Switzerland and
Prussia. It is stated that Frankfort or Brussels is
to be the place of meeting. Prussia is said to
approve the suggestion, but to insist upon being
represented•
The enthusiasm at Beene if possible increases.
An honourable peace, and full recognition of the
integrity of Switzerland and the rights of Neuchatel
as a Federal Canton are insisted on. Great
patriotic contributions have been offered to the
public cause, and various districts have offered
large numbers of volunteers.
It is confidently rumoured in Paris that Switzer
land has conceded a general political amnesty, in
the interest of peace, as a means of compromise
without diminution of her independence and
dignity. Banishment will be recorded against the
Royalist insurgents.
From Madrid we learn that a general disarming,
is ordered, and immense quantities of arms have
been seized in that city and in the provinces.
A letter from Milan states that many political
arrests have- lately been made there, and that a
member of one Of the learned bodies had been ar-
rested in his house. The state of feeling is such
that the coming Carnival is expected to be one of
the s iddest ever known in. Milan.

A Town Council meeting was held yesterday. It
mill be •seen that the anticipated income of the
Qorrnration for the current year is set down by
the:Finance CommUteest £204,380 and the obliga-
tory expenditure at £179,357, being a gross
surplus of £25,038. The discretionary expen-
diture is down at X 5147, which reduces

the surplus to £19,891. The annual report of
the Head Constable was presented by the
Watch Committee. A. long debate followed
the reading of this document, during which Mr.
Hodson took occasion to stigmatise, in no-measur4
terms, the conduct of Maia. Greig 'towards late'
police-officer- Stewart ; hut- the -.majority of---the.
Council being of a different opinion from that
expressed by Mr. Hodson, refused to pass his
amendment to refer back the Watch. Committee'S
report for not alluding to the Major's flagrant
outrage upon, a member of the force over which
he presides.' Several other matters of interest
were brought oa the carpet, one of which was the
reco'rnmendation that a -portrait of Mr. William
Brown be hung up in the new Library, and a
statue placed in one of the unoccupied niches in
St. George's Hall, which was unanimously agreed
to,:and we, would ,direct our readers attention to a
full report on the several matters, inserted else
where.

We regret to state that there is almost a certainty
that the mairseamer Violet, plying between Ostend
and Dover was lost in the storm on Monday night.
A Ramsgate correspondent writes—This is sad
news, the loss of the Violet, for there can, I fear,
be not any doubt as to its being her. Three bodies
were picked up lashed to a life buoy, not far from
the wreck, which lies on the sand to the southward
of the beacon. From the position of the vessel's
head I em of opinion that having, as they thought,
run their distance, and catching sight of the Gull
lights through the terrific snow storm, the two
lights were mistaken for those of the South
Foreland. I find this mistake is frequently oceurin g.
The vessel sits upright on the sand. Funnel
gone, decks, bulkheads, and cabin doors, to be
seen floating away. Some luggers, either from
this place or D. al, were seen out at the wreck at
low water."

Notice has been given to dispute adjudication in
the bankruptcy of Humphrey Brown, M P., of
British Bank notoriety.
A Post-office clerk, named Miles, was yesterday.
at the Central Criminal Court, sentenced to six
years penal servitude for stealing letters.

THE Rivington Pike water is in Liverpool !
We reiterate this assertion on authority. It is
mixed with the pure water we have been receiving
hitherto, in the pipes from which we have
obtained our supply from the wells ; but in what
quantity we have been treated to the poisonous
filth our informants cannot tell. Suffice it, how-
ever, to say that the water we have been receiving
in our cisterns since Saturday afternoon has been
carefully analysed, and we have the highest
chemical authority for stating that the iriixed
water contains a large amount of poisonous mat-
ter, and is wholly unfit for cooking and domestic
uses. We make this statement, fully aware of the
consequences, and ready to abide the issue of a
public investigation into its truth ; and we now
demand, in the name of the Ratepayers, whose
health and lives are at stake, an open, full, and
impartial enquiry into this nefarious trifling with
the inhabitants of the Borough. When the
proper time arrives, we are prepared with the
chemical testimony necessary to establish the
correctness of our allegations. Meanwhile, we
would ask the Town Council, individually and
collectively, what is to be done ? and who is,
answerable for the danger in which the public
have been placed ?
Did. the Corporation know what was going on,
or have they been taken by surprise, as the
inhabitants have, by a set of irresponsible
engineers ? Many persons have been heard to
complain of the water within the last few days,
but no one ever thought that they were using
the Rivington filth. The promoters of that
infamous job seem to have dreaded detection,
and they have carefully avoided the challenge
recently given to them, to submit their drainage
abominations to a proper chemical test. If they
have done this, they must have found something
at the bottom of their retorts which was not 'fit
for the public eye, and therefore remained silent ;
and if they have neglected to satisfy themselves
that their water is really fit for household
purposes, they have been guilty of the most
criminal dereliction of duty, The matter must
not, however, be suffered to rest as it is. The
public must demand an immediate explanation of
all that has been dine, and a most solemn assur-
ance that the Rivington water will be kept out of
the town until it has been carefully analysed
by disinterested chemists—men in whom their
fellow-ratepayers will have the most perfect con-
fidence. The descriptions we have given of the
Pike ditch and its precious contents, were by no
means overdrawn. We could have no interest
whatever in misrepresenting the samples of water
placed before us, nor can we for a moment sup-
pose that those who brought them to us -could
have been so fiendish as to manufacture the vile
compounds we received. No ! The water must be
essentially bad, or why mix it ? Why not let us
-have that which is equally good, if not better,
without any adulteration from the wells of smoky
Liverpool ? Liquid manure must, as we have
before observed, be diluted, and that is what the
promoters of this base' Pike scheme have been
about. They could not venture to give us pure
Rivington water, nor dare they bring it into the
town openly, and above board. But we must
now look to the Corporation for immediate
redress and safety. The Water Committee are
responsible to the Council for their acts, and the
Corporation, as a body, are answerable ,to the
public for the safety of the community, and to
them the Ratepayers must appeal, and without
delay.

FOREIGN INTELLIG ENCE

FRANCE.

TUESDAY EVENING •
.The Conferene.os_rnet to day., at_ two o'clock
There is every reason to believe, unless totally
unexpected difficulties should have arisen, that all
is settled, or at least that the provisional settle-
ment, which alone was to be rationally expected so
long as•the,Bessarabian frontier remains untraced,
has been COlll3 to. The telegraph has been
hard at.whrk for several days past'between Paris.
London, St.. Peters,burg, and Vienna. The
protocol was' all ready for signature soine time
since, and, in all probability, it' hss been signed
to-day.
The Bourse opcsied-
.to Ilay• Tith- a. reaction
caused by the realisation of profits upon yester-
day's rise. It was not, he;veNee, very impertant,
and the payment of dilLrences on the last settle-
ment having been satis'factorily made, and the
meeting of the Conference this afternoon being
considered a symptom that the difficulties which
caused the adjournment are removed, quwatiouS
improved in the latter part of the day, and the
Route closed very firm, at a fall of only se. for cash,
and at yesterday's price for account. Mebilier
fell 20fr. The railway market was quiet. The
Grand Central. was the favourite, and rose °fr. 30e.
Most of the other lines were from 2fr. 50c. to sfr.
lower. .. " _ • _

The body of the late Archbishop of Paris was
exposed to public view this morning with the
ceremonies and decorations which I described
yesterday. Although the streets,were exceedingly
dirty, a considerable number of persois assembled
early in the morning at the door of the Palace
in the 1111() Grenelle, and the crowd increased
greatly as the day wore on. The visitors were for
the most part of the humbler elssses ; but very few
people came in carriages. Before reaching the
Chapelle Ardente, the public traversed several
rooms hungwith black and dimly lighted. The body,
clothed in full pontifibial robes, with a white mitre
on the head, was placed in a satin bed resting
on an inclined plane, so ' that the face was as
plainly seen as if the figure were in an upright
position. The countenance seemed but little
changed_ by _death. The two hands were_ crossed
on the breast, and so placed as to touch a cross
suspended from the neck. On one of the fingers
of the right.hand the pastoral ring might be eb-
served. The severe decorations of the dais, the
dim glow of the Wax tapers, the chanting of the
priests, and the low muttered prayers of the Sisters
of Charity produced: a great effect upon the spec-
tators Of the pompouS:death chamber. One woman
went into hysterics while .I .was passiug. through
and was carried out screaming. The lying in state
will continue for some days. "

FINAL SETTLEMENT OF
11HE DISPUTED TREATY.

PARIS, WEDNESDAY MORNING

The Moniteur of this day contains the following :
" The Conference has signed a protocol which
puts an end to the difficulties which have delayed
the execution of the treaty of the 30th of March
The Conference,with unaninous accord, has decided
that the frontier shall follow the valley of Trojan up
the river Yalpuch, leaving Tiglorad and Toback to
Moldavia, and that' Russia shall retain: upon the
right bank Komrat, with 330 versts of territory.
The Isle of Serpents is to be considered as part of
the mouths of the Danube. The Conference
recognises that it was the intention of the Congress
to re establish by Article 21 the territories west of
the new boundaries in their former situation ; and
to conform to the intentions of the negotiators of
peace, it has decided that these territories shall be
annexea. to Moldavia, with the exception of- Dolk,
on the Danube, which will revert to Turkey. The
Conference has decided, moreever, that the
boundaries shall be settled and take effect
by the 30th of March at • the latest, and
that at the same date the Austrian troops
and the British fleet shall have evacuated the
Danubian Principalities and the interior waters of
Turkey. The Commission of the Principalities
will then be able to enter those provinc2s, and
proceed to the execution of its mission. At the
conclusion of its labours the Commission will
report to the Conference, which will ye-assemble
according to the, terms of Article 24, in order to
settle by a convention the final agreement between
the contracting par ties as to the organisation of the
Principalities."

BOMBARDMENT of CANTON

Tuesday night's Gazette contains the despatches of
Admiral Sir Michael Seymour relative to the bombard-
, ment of Canton, together with the correspondence of Mr.
Parkes, the consul, with the Governor General Yeh, and
also the letters and instructions of Sir John Bowling, her
Majesty's Plenipotentiary, Hong Kong, list of killed and
wounded, &c., the whole occupying more than forty
columns of the Gaztte. The despatches of Admiral
Seymour give in detail an account of the -circumstances
and negociations which took place previous
.to the bom-
bardment. These details do not essentially differ from
the accounts we have already -published. The Admiral,
however, admits that the twelve men seized by the
Chinese authorities on board the lorcha were" eventually
sent -back ;" but states, that "it was not in the public
manner in which they were sent away, and all appearances
of an apOlogy was carefully • avoided." The Admiral,
throughout all these transactioio acted in conjunction
with her Majesty's plenipotentiary, Sir John Bowring,
several of whose despatches are given, containing very
strongly expressed opinions as to the character of the
outrage, and the necessity of demanding reparation. In
concluding his despatch, Admiral Seymour says :
"I have endeavoured, as briefly as its high importance
will permit, to lay before their lordships every particular
connected with my proceedings. The original cause of
dispute, though comparatively trifling, has now, from the
injurious policy pursued by the Imperial High Commis-
sioner, assumed so very grave an aspect as to threaten
the existence of amicable relations as regards Canton.
Though I shall continne to take steps, in conjunction with
her Majesty's Plenipotentiary, in the hope of bails; able
to bring matters to a satisfactory termination, I shall be
most anxious to receive the instructious of her Majesty's
Government on this important question "
The correspondence embraces a series of letters
addressed to the Admiral by the Consul and Sir 11,
Bowring relative to the dispute, and detailint, the char.
acter of the-operations. The following is the letter of
Consul Parkes demanding an. apology from Governor-
General Yeh:— . .
. " British Consulate, Canton, Oct. 12,1855.
" Sir,,•--I have the honour to state to your 'Excellency
that'on receipt, at noon on the 10th, of your ExCellency's
declaration relative to the seizure by Chinese naval
officers of twelve of the crew of the British lorchit Arrow,
I at once forwarded it to his Excellency her Majesty's
Plenipotentiary, and requested his . instructions in the
case. These instructions of her Majesty's- PlenipOtentiary,
which I have now' received, are to this effect :--That as it
is clear that the Chinese authorities have violated the 9th
Article of the Supplementary Treaty, which requires that
all Chinese malfaisants in British ships shall be claimed
through British authorities, I am to inform your Excel-
lency that her Majesty's Plenipotentiary requires you to
furnish me with an apology for what has taken place,
and an assurance that the British flag, shall in future be
respected; and I am to intimate to your Excellency that
if forty eight hours are allowed to pass without a com-
pliance on your Excellency's) part with this demand, I
am then to concert with the naval authorities the
measures necessary for infforeing redress). lam also to
add that, on any sufficient evidence being given that
British 'ships or British subjects' have been engaged in
piratical practices, they will be proceeded against without
hesitation, and that, on application to the proper
authority, Chinese offenders will not be harboured on
board British vessels, but that all proceedings must take
place according-to the conditions of the treaty."
To which the following reply was returned by the Gover-
tior General :- -

"At the hour of Wei (from one to three p.m.) on the
14th day" of the ninth month (12th October) I received the
statement addressed me by the Consul, which I have well
considered. I find in reference to the twelve men, Le
Mingtae and others, who were seized on board the lorcha,
that by my directions the Prefect of Canton examined
them clearly and thoroughly, and duly submitted to me
in his report copies of the truthful depositinns h. bad
taken. Whereupon the three men, Woo-Asin, Le Mingtae,
and leang Keen-foto are reserved for further and more
strict examination, and the assistant magistrate lien was
directed to take the remaining nine, Lean 'a. PAM, and
others, and return them to their own vessel., These
particulars were also distinctly communicated (to the
Consul) in the declaration which, as the records show,
the❑ addressed to him. But as he has now forwarded to
me another ' statement' on this subject, on which I have
to remark, that it is stated in the deposition of Woo-Assin
' that, this lorcha belongs to Loo-Aching, who began to
build her on the 14th day of the 7th month of the 4tlryear
of Heinrfung (•7th August, 1854), and on the day on which