Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-08-20 00:00:00

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THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1857.

THE DAY'S NEWS

The new Mersey Conservancy Biil, brought in
by Sir James Graham on Monday, has been read a
tkierd time and passed. This has been the result
el the Dock Trustees not presenting any petition
uzainst the bill, although they were by no means
satisfied with its several clauses. However, as we
dye shown in our leading columns, they adopted
the only course which they considered would
bUnes the town and trade of Liverpool. This day
it is expected that a motion will be made to sus-
pend the standing orders of the House of Lords, so
/that the measure may pass into law on ft-morrow,
and thus set at rest a long and most expensive
seateat between the promoters of the bill and the
municipal and dock authorities of Liverpool.
in the House of Commons, yesterday, the Matri-
isoizial causes Bill passed through committee, and
*he preamble of the bill was agreed to after some
sreaenssion. Mr. Roebuck is determined to poise-
wain his endeavours to deprive Ireland of its
sfice-royalty. He gave notice that on an early day
watt session, be weuld move a resolution as to the
expediency of abolishing the office of Lord-Lieu-
.tuant, and also that he would call the attention
Ser the House to the charter of the Hudson's Bay
Company. Several other bills were advanced a
%lege, and the House adjourned.
The shares of the Atlantic Telegraph continua
Ze Tall. They were heavy yesterday at 350 dis.,
at even at that rate there were no dealers. It is
sail that as soon as the remaining 1001. is paid
upon the 1,0001. shares, they will be converted into
stock, a change manifestly of advantage to the
wadertifking; whereas a share of 1,0001. fully paid
arp must consilerably restrict operations either on
ire market, and render the whole concern a kind
tat monopoly, open to many objections, not the
Beast of which is that it might beget the supposi-
tion that such, an exclusive construction of the
capital is not without an object, such as giving an
czaclue ietluence and priority of use to the share-
kidders a reflection not calculated to obtain for
ttre undertaking general approval and support.
The East India Company it appears does not
asdertain much fear respecting the state of affairs
In their territory, for they are lending money
stead of borrowing. On Tuesday half-a-million
stealing - was offered for temporary employ ment.
Taken in conjunction with the recent Ministerial
announcement that there is no intention at pre-
cept of propoSing a loan, this circumstance is of
importance as indicating that the East India
Company are as yet wen provided witii money.
it may be assumed that the work of connecting
Andia with England by telegraph wires will be
cemmenced immediately ; the patronage of the
Government has been promised, but the neces-
wiities of the case, even thee, will only have been
-inlet half-way. When we are enabled to learn on
Thursday evening, what takes pace at Delhi on
Thursday morning, says a London cotemporary,
we shall begin to ask how soon may a thousand
teerenadiersfrom Aldershot be transplanted to can
gate ants in Cawnpore ? It will never .do to
:answer that with favourable winds they may reach
Bombay in five months, and be in the upper
country within three weeks of that time. If news
arrives at the end of July that matters went wrong
the day before yesterday in the Punjaub, what con-
solation will it be to re fleet that before the close
al January the Die-Hards will be at them in
Lahore, especially when we know that our letters
a encouragement or condolence to friends will
le delivered the second week in September ?
We may cautious and economical if we will; but
ns remind the public that there is no human
reason why, upon Monday evening, a traveller
should not leave London• bridge, and, crossing the
Channel, step into a railway carriage at Calais,
whirl through Europe, pass the Orontes, follow the
nplarateF, trace the coast line of Beloochistan,
at ad,in fifteen days, dine within hear of the murmurs
c the Indus. The plan has actually been selected,
the ground surveyed, the acquiescence of the
several governments secured, and all but the neces-
sary energy supplied.
The final decision of the Home Secretary, in
respect to the condemned culprit at Maidstone,
las been forwarded to the authorities, and they
will be executed at the gaol tc-:lay ; the removal of
'ox for execution at Canterbury, orrthe representa-
tion of the Recorder and Sheriff of Canterbury,
kavibg been stopped by Sir George Grey. Edwards
still maintains his innocence.

Spollen; the accused murderer of Mr. Little,
seems to be taking a singular ccurse for the
purpose of earning for himself additional notoriety,
:end replenishing his now exhausted exchequer.
Failing to obtain pecuniary aid from the Midland
and Great Western Railway authorities, and Mr.
'Ke.nais, the crown solicitor, he has resorted to the
4ripeclient of exhibiting himself at. one of the
Dublin theatres, and delivering a personal narative
vi his trial. His object, in doing so, he
a"tes in en Acirerthiement, to be to obtain
kinds to enable him to leave the country Our
-temporary, the Freeman's Journal, waxes wroth
et; the i lea, and reads the unfortunate man a
tec4ure couched in the severest langiage, telling
him that the people of Dublin have nenera desire
nor the taste to patronise an exhibi ion such as
Spollen propos:s. We are no sympathisers with
cc e whose innocence of a crime s 9 desperate and
too brutal is: so questionable, nevixtheless, it is
inpossible to gainsay the fact that the man
is liter-
a starving, and without a singletrienni in the world
e aid him in this, his hour of extreme poverty,
anguish and.. They who discounte-
Ttance this cffurt of Spollen to rid himself 'of-
Ireland, would wit, surely, wish to goad him on to
ether deeds of desperatior, in order to obtain_
what would barely keep him in life. We should say
not. If Spollen is in' earnest, the government
mold not do better than-pay his passage. A case
such as his is an exceptioh to all general rules, and
the paltry sum which would be required for his
alpitxiation the veriest enemy he ever had could
DOS object to.

The proceedings in the Crown Court at the