Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-10-22 00:00:00

year taken from them for which they got no benefit
whatever, and, therefore—though some years ago he was
Opposed to the idea of rating the docks—believing that if
t hey t enovrd from commerce everything that impeded its
action, they would ultimately reap the benefit of
it, yet he considered that the question was, now
so much altered by the passing of the Mersey Conservance
Bill, that it would be for the serious consideration of the
Council to say, whether the docks should not now be
made to bear a portion of the expense which was thrown
on the town. (Hear. hear.) He would not commit him-
self to any certain opinion upon the point, but he thoug'it
it was one deserving of serious consideration. (Rear,
hear.) In conclusion Mr. Hutchison declared that they
wanted an extension of docks on this sido of the water,
vessels having frequently to lay in the river for ten days
before they could obtain a berth, and that as the coal
trade was largely increasing in the port, and as they had
already secured a large proportion of the whole trade of
the kingdom, they might yet secure more,of it by dealing
with the question in no niggard spirit..
On the motion of Mr. Richard Holmes, seconded by Mr.
Elias Arnlud, a resolution, approving of Mr. Hutchison
as a candidate for the ward, and pledging the meeting to
his return, was carried by acclamation.
On the motion of Mr. R. Griffiths, seconded by Mr. J.
L Holmes, a committee was appointed for the purpose of
securing Mr. Hutchison's elecAon, in the event of any
opposition.
Mr. Ald. Dover then addressed the meeting in support
of Mr. Hutchison, and in the course of his remarks,
endeavoured to prove that the Rivington water was not
so bad as it was described. His views, 4owever, did not
seem to correspond with those of the meeting:on that
question.
Mr. Hugh Neill begged to dissent in Coto from Mr.
Dover's views on the water question. He (lTr. Neill)
had visited a great deal throughout the ward, and
everywhere he heard grievous complaints against the
quality of the water, and also the manner of its distri-
bution. (Hear, hear.) Over and over again they were
told that the water would not be given to the town
without due warning, and yet that promise had been
scandalously violated ; and now after they had been made
to swallow the water for weeks, experiments were about
to be made to see if it could be made palatable and fit for
domestic use. He repeated, such nasty filthy stuff should
not have been transferred into their cisterns without
warning. (Cheers.)
Thanks were then voted to the Chairman, after which
the meeting separated. _ .

The Provincial Bank of Ireland has r iced the rate of
interest on Depo its to 3 prer cent. from the 17th inst.
IRISH REPRESENTATIVE BISHOPS FOR 1858.—The Lord
Archbishop of Dublir, the Lord Bishop of Cashel, the
.Lord Bishop of Derry, and the Lord Bishop of Limerick.
The Portuguese authorities at Lisbon placed the Penh-
slier and Oriental Com?t.ny's mail packet Tagus in
quarantine on ter last voyap, because the hose of the
water• tank ashore was laid over the ship, the yellow
fever being at the time prey lent ashore at Lisbon.
Law:tic Arrnas.—Mr. A kins, of the Rnyal Marine,
barracks, lately picked from his garden, at the Paint, two
apples of the fol:owing extraordinary dimensions : one
measured 134 in hes in circumference, and weighed 131
fai ; the other measured 13 inches, and weighed 13 eze.-
Plymouth Journal.
On di4 that a gallant Militia Major who represents a
neighhouritg county is about to lead to the hymenial altar
a beautiful metropolitan young lady, with a fortune of
£2l,ooo.—Ltmeriele Chron'cle. The officer alluded to is
The O'Danoghtfe. M.P , for the county of Tipperary,
and M,j ;r in the Kerry Wig ia.
ONE OF TH t BEsq LIVINGS IN THE CHURCH OF ENG-
LAND.—The rectory of Stoke-upon-Treat, Staff prdshire,
has btcome.vac;nt by the death of !hi Rey. J. W. Tom-
linson. It is worth upwards r f:3,0001. a year. `l here ate
Only two liviegs in the Church which exceed this in
annual value—riamely, the rectory of Stanhop., Durham,
worth 5,0001. a-year, end the rectory of Doddington,
Cambridgeshire, which is worth nearly 8 0001. a-year.
GUERIN'S SELF-ACTING RAILWAY BLEAK.—Tuts in-
valuable apparatus is already in daily use on nearly the
whole of the French railways, as will be seen from the
following list of the lin s which Lave a loptel it :—Orleans,
Northern, Westerr, Lyons, Bomb ,nnais, Southern, and St.
Rampert to Grenoble. the Eastern (.r S rasb.)urg)
Company are now basing it fitted to their carriages.—
Mining Journal.
RESIGNATION OP ITICE• ADMIRAL SIR MAURICE BEEXELEY.
—The death of Earl Fozhardinge, the elder brother of
Vice-Admi al Sir Maurice Berk.ley, K.C.8., and Senior
Naval Lord of Admiralty, having devolved new duties upon
the admiral, and placed him in a different position, the
gadant officer haa sent in his resign ition as a Lord of
the Admiralty. The arrangements consequent upon this
event, which has long been in contemplation, have not
vet transpired ; bat we understand that no ffic'r senior
to Sir Richard Dunchs will be appointed.—United Service
Gazette. _ _ _

MR. SPURGRON'S Naw BOOK.—MT. Spurgeon has just
issued his first work from the press. He says in his pre-
face :—" Never was a book written amid more incessant
toi'. Wti ing is to me the work of a slave. It is a
delight, a joy, a rapneee to talk out one's thoughts in
word; that flash upon the mind at the instant when they
are required ; bat it is poor drudgery to sit still and
grcan for thoughts and words without succeeding ie
obtaiui-g them. Nothing but a sense of duty has impel d
me to fini,,h this little bask, which has been more than two
yea-sin hand." •
MALICIOUS OUTIWIE.—On Sunday night last as John V.
Forde, Esq., was rising home to Ratianaveoge from Frenk-
fort Castle, where be had dined, some ruffians pelted him
with stones, one of which s ruck him in the side, bit for-
tunately did not injure him much. He is an excelleet
horseman, and owes his escape from further serious in-
jai ies to ill: fleetness with which his horse carried him
away out of the reach of his cowardly assailants. No
cause can be assigaed for this wanton et ack on Mr. Forde,
who is irc tpable of prov king hestility and hietly esteemed
in the trighbourhood.-21fidland Counties Advertiser.
Tea liomare Ceexoetc Cuuaca.—lt is understcod in
Roman Catholic ci-cles that a sammons has been received
from Rome by Cardinal Wiseman, which, if complied
with, will elevate the Most Rev. Dr. Errington, Archbishop
of Trebizond, and Coadjutor to his Eminence, to the purple.
It may he stated that the Cardinal need not comply with
the command. He is, as a Niece of the Church, rerfectly
independent of the Holy See, E 0 fir as its tett itori al j iris-
die ion extends; but in well-informed Catholic circles it
is stated that the Pope is anxi 'us to abdicate his sove-
reignty, and looks to Cardinal Wiseman as the only person
worthy to succeed him.
TDB CASE OP LORD CECIL.GORDON.—The else of th:s
ioselvent came on for hearing in the Taunton County
Court, on Monday. It will be recolltcted that at a
former pt titian for hearirg, the insolvent was dismissed on
the 7th Se,. t mber on a It gal teeht icality, and his Lord-
'ship had remained in prison and was now heard on an tther
petition filed by Mess s. Lewis an I Lewis. After a 1 tug
investigation the ju age (4lr. C. Saunders) declared
Lord Cecil entitled to the benefi of the Act, and ordered
him to be discharged forthwith. The case did not terminate
uu'il nearly ha'f past eight o'clock, having occupied
upwards of eight hours in the investigation. His lordshie
who had been in prison 80 days, was congratulated by his
Liends, and ordered to bo released from c-nanemeet.
• A PRINCELY MAacntoNEss.—The Marc'iioness of Len
donderry, possessing an independent tonuae of £IOO,OJO
a year, a Peeress:in her own tieA, and ben ficiary of a
great many- other very god and very pleasant things,
seems inclin2d to look upon her estates as principali ies, and
her colliers and peasants as subjec a. At Garron Tower
she arrived " punteual as the Q leen," in a Cleopttre's
barge ,p c:cs of aerie% in which reclined Lady Antrim,
the Ma chioness driving. Lady Londonderry w.s attired
in a cloth of gold mantle, embroidered like an altar cloth ;
Lady Antrim, the youneastedowager in the Peerage, in a
piquant Pa isian c atom., even rn re startlirg and delight-
ful. On a " raised dais" addresses from the tetantry were
received, and a written arswer was read " with a perfec i in
of elocu ion which reminded us of Queen Victoria when

opening Parliamet.t." Truly a " stronz-mindel woman !
We remember the poor Duk, of Backiugham, whose head
got a little weakened by the belief that a homers spathic
globde of the Plantagenet blood runs up and down s m.-
where in his "system," wore his coronet, put on his state
robes and sat upon a sort of throne on a similar occasion at
Stowe. We giva the Marchioness the benefl.. of a hint for
a future occasion.—Dispatch.
HARBOUR (.1, REFUGX AT PORTRUBH. —A very numerous
and influential assemblage of the nobility and galtry of
Antrim, and the northern parts of county Derry, was held
at Pertrush, last week, for the purpose of adopting
measures to have the claims of P,:rtrtish to be made a
harbour of refuge, by the junction of the Skerries with the
mainland, brotglu before the Committee of the House of
Cem-noes during the next session of Parliament. The
meeting had been e mveled by Mr. M cartney, M P., who
entered fully into the subject, and explained a plan which
he had seen in a public-al:a al the G ,veroreent for making
the contemplated harbour. It ca.nsists of a breakwater
from Rarnore Head, east of the quay, to the extremity of
the smaller rocks, which would form a break-water is
conneotion with the mainland of 3,400 feet ; then join the
smaller Skerries to the larger, fill rig' in the interstices,
thus forming a break-water .with an intervening pass ,ge
through of 1,250 1 et, by which a vessel would either have
passage to go in or out, according to the, wind. Tao
anchorage within the Skerries would be from four to twelve
fathom, so that the largest ship in the navy might with
safety fly thither in a gale of wind. The cost was estimated
at about £220,000. Mr. Dargan aud other gentlemen
spoke strongly in favour cf the uneertaking, which was
stated to have received the warm approval of the Lord
Lieutenant. A committee, consisting of William Dargan,
Esq., William Wilson Campbell, Esq., John Boyd, 14'sq.,
M.D., Samuel Lawrence, Esq., and Hugh Belles, Esq.,
wos appointed
_to prepare evidence to he laid befom a
. Committee of the House of Commons.