Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-08-05 00:00:00

Knight, the object of whicL was that the Burial
Boards, instead of the Secretary of State, should
have the power to make arrangements respecting
burials, but it was negatived without a division
The commitiee of the House to consider the Oaths'
Bill was then struck. The committee conssts of
Lord Palmerston, Sir George Grey, Mr. Disraeli,
Mr. Walpole, Sir John Pakington, Lori John
Russell, Sir James Graham, Mr. Gladstone, the
Attorney-General, the Solicitor-General, Sir F.
Kelly, Lord Stanley, Mr. Horsman, Mr. Henley,
Mr. Roebuck, Mr. Malins, Mr. Headlam, the
Attorney-General for Ireland, the Lord Advocate,
Mr. Dillwyn, Mr. Napier, Lord Robert Grosvenor,
Mr. Whiteside, and Mr. Cobbett. The quorum of
the committee was fixed at nine ; Lord John
Russell had proposed.three, but this was received
with derision. The Divorce Bill then went into
committee.

The report of the committee to inquire into the
allegations made by Mr. Bertolacci has been issued.
It is decidedly against Mr. Bertolacci. The com-
mittee, think, however, that that gentleman has
throughout the whole of his connection with the
Duchy, acted in error. The wind-up of the report
is as follows :—" In conclusion, your committee
are opinion, that the presentation of this petition
should not prejudice the present position or future
prospects of Mr. Bert olacci, still less ought it to
derogate from former claims; for your committee
are clearly of opinion that, throughout, even when
he was most clearly in error, Mr. Bertolacci acted
bona
.fide according to the sincere conviction which
was deeply seated in his mind, that in his person
the privileges of the office of auditor of the Duchy
of Lancaster had been infringed."
At the Cheater Assizds, yesterday, Mr. Lewis,
solicitor and clerk to the magistrates at Wrexham
and part proprietor of the Wrexham Telegraph,
of the TVrexham and DenbighshireWeekly Advertiser,
brought an action against Mr. Bayley, proprietor
for libel. Damages were laid at £lOO. After a
long hearing the jury returned a verdict of £lO
damages.
Locally, there is but little of importance. Mr.
Keogh, in the Police Court yesterday, made an
attack upon the crimps and touters of certain
attorneys practising in that court.
To-day the Quarterly meeting of the Town
Council will be held. At this meeting the question
respecting the Pike water is to be discussed, but
we suppose it will be adjourned, and a separate
day set apart for its especial benefit.

Our acivices from the Continent continue in-
teresting. The Ministerial crisis at Constantinople
is a serious affair, which will not merely influence
the fate of the Principalities, but perhaps also that
of the Suez Canal scheme. As far as the Princi-
palities are concerned, a communication from
Vienna seems to indicate that Austria is already
falling off from England. It would be deplorable
enough should the clumsy operations of Lord
de Bedcliffe and Baron Prokesch, which consisted
in deceiving the Sultan on one hand and disregard-
ing the wishes of the Principalties on the other,
and in establishing the very thing they are strug-
gling to prevent—the mischievous influence of
Russia and France on the Lower Danube. There
is sore hope, however, in a communication from
Berlin, which says that Prince Gortschakoff has
not succeeded in bringing the Prussian Government
altogether over to the views of Russia and France,
and that Baron Manteuffel has recommended that
the Moldavian elections be not immediately an-
nulled, but that the matter as it stands should be
referred to another meeting of the Paris conference.
The Emperor and Empress of the French are
to embark at Havre this evening, and will arrive
at Osborne early on Thursday morning.
Intelligence from Portugal, of the 30th ult.,
states that an important manufactory of bad coin
has been discovered in Oporto, with branch estab
lishments over the country. Several members of
the Portuguese clergy of high position are impli-
cated in this affair.

An article by M Guizot, in the Revue des Deux
Blondes, is attracting much attention. It is en-
titled "Belgium and King Leopold in 1857," and
comments on the recent disturbances in Belgium,
provoked by the aggressive policy of the Catholic
clergy. M. Guizot considers that the tendency of
this policy has been vastly exaggerated, and he
warmly advises the liberal party in Belgium to
forbear breaking with the clerical party.
We have later news from the Brazils by the
arrival of the Petropolis at Southampton. The
news is of no great importance. H. B. M.'s
Vice-Consul, Mr. Thomas. Gpattn c 4,“
L.beieuti
China, sixteen in number, had arrived at Rio
Janeiro, and would leave on the 3rd July for Java.
The heavy portion of the Indian mails arrived at
Southampton yesterday in the C)lumbo. Among
her rassengers were Sir William Read, governor
of Malta.

The screw-steamer City of Washington, which
was to sail• from New York on the 23rd ult., was off
Queenstown yesterday morning. She will in all
likelihood arrive here in the course of this fore-
noon. She will bring one day's Jater news.

THE admission of the Baron RonrscuiLD into-
the House of Commons, as representative for the
City of London, has assumed a new phase.
Lord Jour; RUSSELL has had recourse to another
move, which, if successful, must upset his new
Oaths Bill." We confess we cannot understand
the manoeuvres of his lordship on this great and
important question. We believe that it was all
but settled that Baron ROTHSCHILD should have
presented himself at the early sitting of the
House on Monday, and claim to be sworn, and
take his seat—the oath to be administered in a
manner which he should deem most binding
on his conscience—and in the event of his being
ordered to withdraw, Elen Mr. DILLWYN was to
move that he should take his seat by virtue of a
special resolution. But the Baron was dissuaded
from the adoption of this course lest it should in
any way interfere with Lord JOHN'S movements..
Now, it is matter of regret that there should be
such hesitancy and doubt manifested by the
advocates of Jewish Emancipation. Not only
are the electors of the city of London enthusias-
tic and earnest iu the matter, but the nation at
large would hail with delight the removal of
this last remnant of political intolerance and
ecclesiastical tyranny. Can there be any hope
of this being brought about by the steps which
Lord JOHN RUSSELL is taking ? There seems to
be a want of true courage in pushing the matter
to a final issue. His proposal of appointing a
Select Corrimittee of the House of Commons to
inquire into the objects and interpretation of the
several clauses of the Act of 5 & 6 WILLIAM IV.,
cap. 62, is a novel mode of legislating upon
what is universally admitted to be a political
grie'vance of magnitude. It has all the appear-
ance of an excuse for delay, and a desire to
provoke gratuitous and uncalled-for discussion.

We do not wish to put a bad construction
upon the public acts of senators, nor attribute to
them a desire to do anything that will tadr the
progress of civil and religious liberty, At the
same time, we confess that the cause of which
Baron ROTHSCHILD is the champion cannot be
expected to make much progress, if left to Lord
Jost/ RUSSELL, or the solons of Westminster
He. On Monday night, there was a somewhat