The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-03-30 00:00:00

LORD PALMERSTOL AT TIVERTON.

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At Tiverton, on Friday, Lord Palm stoic s-ai
impracticable character of the doctrine that offieft 4
distant parts ought not to vindicate our rights vial 6
previously referring home for instructions. Su% leer,
said, that the Chinese had taken a dozen Brit„'soet
chants and threatened to starve them if they da-,,pea„ar
something which they had no right to be called .., lettAT-
do Was our admiral—was our superintendentL jae:
these men in prison until they could write home '","epsvi
to England and ask whether they should take s•aipeo
relieve them? Why, before the orders of the GeleT
reached China these men would have ceased to exis„„ •
the answer of the commissioner to ouragents would1;001
am sorry to inform you, that three months agetithes 1”;
died from their sufferings in prison." (Cheers.)2sir
Palmerston afterwards adverted to the recent e SPee
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motion and debate, and expressed surprise tha4ol
rienced members should have allowed thews?' 00.11
believe that they were only acting the part of Jald'lsl
whose duty it was to decide upon a fact which bapsell4
place at the other end of the globe, and that the ,r-,ja.,4/0"
the vote was not to have any practical eget 50113
domestic affairs. It the House of Commons via'rdeli
as a jury upon Sir John Bowring, who ever h 4 100 A
jury proceeding to try a man 18,000 miles off °defer
having had an opportunity of instructing counsel "I„irterfi
him. Adverse party motions, with the view of Or
ing a GoVernment, were in accordance with oor la° irk
r he
constitutions, but such parties should first see the t
to form themselves an efficient administration, and of 1p
did see their way they should propose a vni`„et
confidence in the Government of the day, but it isjebeh',
to take, as a trial of strength, a question in w.,",,1e-fr,t'id
party is to be arrayed in hostility to the hn'''',4beit
interests, and the dignity of the country, and the "
called upon to maintain that honour, to watch 000 Vi
interests, and to sustain that dignity—such 140 t
nature of the question on which the late diirial)slir
place. His lordship, alluding to the question n„r,ed
mentary Reform, on which some persons exPe,r 010
Government to give distinct pledges, said eyetio
be unbecoming in him to do so, but that, to shut its ,41.1
facts and circumstances, and wish to maintain ti 1701;
all respects as they are, simply because they are' I,ff
be a Government upon which the lessons of e'•r-e4.
and the reasonings of men would be utterly throvra
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Advices from Konigsburg state that Russia has freeris
her customs' tariff. The duty on cotton en'
goods is to be reduced ono half. The dal."
unchanged. Duty on linen is raised.", 44 in
A letter from Constantinople, in the Gazette,';ie ne.,
says :—" M. Pisani, first dragoman of the Englisn,wor
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has resigned his situation n consequence of soar
with Lord Stratford de Redcliffe." foilorot
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IMMIGRANTS AND LIBERATED AFRICANS.--The, 'Arri‘'
are the numbers of inttnigrarits and liberated jsle
introduced into the West India Colonies and talaipara
France from 1847 to the end• of 1856—viz., into
5,195 ; Trinidad, 9,699; Antigua, 1,119 ; .St. 27:0
British Guiana, 27,425 ; St. Lacia, 1,119 ; Toberiotsi
St. Vincent, 895 ; and Grenada, 1,090 ; making otebi
regards the West Indies, of 47,066. The total gig
introduced iato the Mauritius was 97,542 between 1•
1856,
~,,A 621 1
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BRITISH AND FOREIGN VESSELS.—III 1856, "4
tish and 19,678 foreign vessels entered inwards 9V-a0,710(
the United Kingdom, while 181,264 British 119...bef
foreign ships cleared outwards. The total nuu'opiti
entrances and clearances in 1856 was 398,54°851 ass
379,506 in 1856, 389,253 in 1854, 395,759 in '1856[6
383,504 in 1855. The total number of wrecks in 1,;;c1
1
1.153 (916 British and 237 foreign vessels), aga',ll2'3,
987, 832, and 1,113 in the years 1855, 1854, '
1852.
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DISTRESS OF MlND.—Early on Saturday 113.„°o
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young w man living at Mr. Cozens', Oaten hn"ivin°l4
busy, absented herself in a distressed state 0, a /0010
consevence of a letter she had received frart, ding :d
man who had paid his addresses to her. r' ",be
did not retutn, fears were entertained that morel
committed suicide, and on the following
certsiSio
(Sunday) enquiry was made, and it was astbat !elf
from a boy on Mr. Dom brain's farm, ojaVlip
was seen by him on the ~-attirday morning niade,o.
her way towards Stoppington. Search vas geey
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the woods on Sunday, but without success. irplcv,s
man, in whose service she bad formerly eiborelp,
two men on Monday morning to engage in 3 wet
search, which they did, and found her in Iff/ig,lll /30'
nearly perished with cold and hunger ; they brA° with ,ere
to the police station, where she was supPile'es, 101. la
freshmenss and conveyed back to Mr. CeZeirce'recl Invapa
she has been kindly treated, but has since su dos dinj
from the severe cold she caught in being tvitl...-A
two nights exposed to the inclement weather'
Herald,