Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-03-12 00:00:00

Rome,

The Piedmontese Gazette publishes a royal decree
prohibiting the exportation of forage and oats by the
frontier of Loinbardy.
The Piedmontese Gazette announces that Baron
Carlo Poeiro and the Sixty-six Neapolitans, who
have landed at Queenstown, have invoked the
protection of the Sardinian Ambassador in London.

The idea of treating the Reform Bill in the same
way as the India Bill of last session is ridiculed by
the Globe, which says, we are now led to accept
proved disqualifications, as reasons why this trying
reform task should not be transferred to other
hands.

The Lebanon arrived here yesterday afternoon.
She brought New York papers of the 27th ult., and
upwards of 300,000 dollars in specie, The news is
unimportant. The House of Representatives had
refused to revive the tariff of 1846. The thirty
millions Cuba bill is not again to be brought up this
session, but Mr. Sliddell said that he should re-
introduce it in the Senate next session. The markets
were steady, money abundant, and the stock market

improving.

An important meeting of manufacturers was held
in the Clarendon Rooms, yesterday, to consider the
resolution of the Water Committee to supply water
to manufacturers only by metre. The meeting
appointed a deputation to remonstrate with the
Committee upon this subject, especially as to the
alleged fact, that the waters are patented by the
Water Engineer ; and also to urge the necessity of a
reduction of the charge to manufacturers, to ls. 2d.
per ton.
At the Police Court, yesterday, the second mate of
the ship Samaritan was brought up on a charge of
committing a murderous assault on a black man
named Campbell. From the evidence, as reported
in another column, it appeared that the prisoner had
ordered Campbell to grease a portion of the mast,
which he refused to do, statingthat he had just done
so previously. On Campbell going aloft, the
prisoner followed him and beat him so severely with
a rope,' that he .fell to the rdeck, from a height of
145 feet, and he now lies at the Northern Hospital
in a precarious state. Another extraordinary cross
case of assault was leard, in which a man named
Smith, and a woman named Mrs. M'Parlin, were
plaintiffs and defendants. The swearing on both
sides was most extraordinary ; so much so that
the magistrates said they had never heard or read
anything to equal it. If there were but one case of
assault gross perjury must have been committed,
though the witnesses on both sides were respectable.
The magistrates were unable to decide which was
the worst, and justly fined both parties.
The Bank returns, as published in last night's
Gazette, are of a favourable nature. There is an
increase of £73,390 in the amount of bullion, and
of £300,770 in the reserve of notes. The decrease in
active circulation is £173,245.

THE REPRESENTATION OF SOUTH
LANCASHIRE.

IT is highly creditable to Liverpool, and must at
the same time, one would think, be satisfactory to all
the other towns in the Southern Division of
Lancashire, as :well as to the County at large, that
it is about to furnish so worthy a successor to our
much respected retiring member, Mr. WILLIAM
BROWN, as Mr. J. P. HEYWOOD would seem so
admirably qualified to be; and it is only to be hoped,
that there will no petty jealousies arise, in any
quarter, to mar the unanimity which at present
prevails, as to that gentleman's return. Party
feeling there is so far apparently none ; and we trust
there will not be any, - for it is not an affair of
political party, but of public utility. At the same
time, Mr. HEYWOOD is most undoubtedly of the
party of progress, as who must not be, that could
think of such a position as that of the representation
of a constituency like South Lancashire ? His
political opinions, we believe, are closely in harmony
with the spirit of the age, and although they may
be tempered by the influences of practical experience,
of cool reflection, and of an enlightening business
knowledge, they are only, on that account, all the
more desirable for the circumstances of the present

occasion

MR. HEYWOOD has himself a becoming diffidence
of his own suitableness for the difficult and respon-
sible post which he has been so honourably
solicited to aspire to fill; and the fact that he has
much occupation which he cannot at once relinquish,
but which he is not unwilling to lay aside, at the call
of public duty, must serve to strenghten his claims,
in no slight degree, to sympathy and support. It
was well known, of course, to those who have
pointed him out to the constitutiency, that he has
not been accustomed to take part in public life ; and
it can readily be believed that, under such circum-
stances, and for his own sake, he has no ambition to
enter Parliament. We ought to receive, there-
fore, all the more confidingly, and the more
cordially, his assurance to those who pre-
sented to him the requisition to offer him-
self for election to so important a public position,
that, as he so well expresses it, " encouraged by
your good opinion, and understanding that my firm,
although moderate opinions, in favour of steady
progress, may prove acceptable to a majority of the
electors of South Lancashire, I place my services at
your disposal, and shall hold myself in readiness to
become a candidate for our county whenever a disso-
lution takes place."

That such a choice of a repiesentative as this will
be most judicious, must be apparent, we think, to
everyone, when it is considered how important are
the business affairs in the House of Commons con-
tinually of such a constituency—matters constantly
requiring the most careful attention there ; and