Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-06-19 00:00:00

THE NORTHERN TIMES. LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY, JUNE 19. 1857

of opinion that Mr. Mondell's remarks were any-
thing but practical, or to the purpose.
Yesterday, eighteen gentlemen were proposed
guardians of the parish of Toxteth-park, on the
occasion of the separation from the West Derby
Union. A list of the names will be found in
another column.

We had two arrivals here yesterday, the Colum-
bia, from New York, and the Anglo-Saxon, from
Quebec. Both left their respective ports on the
6th inst. The news is not of an important
character. The United States advices are to
the effect that 2,500 troops had been ordered
to Kansas. The governor of that territory,
Walker, had issued his inaugural address to
the people. It is very conciliatory, and an
abstract of it will be found in another column. It
was stated that the English Minister, Lord Napier,
had denied that the New Grenadian Government
had ceded au island to Great Britain. There is no
question about the American executive being
" raw" upon the matter, for, without doubt, such
territory has been handed over to the tender mer-
cies of England. The inquiry into the murder
of Dr. Burdell continued. We are sorry
to say that the screw steamer Canadian
remained ashore on the 6th inst. It was expected,
however, that she would be got off, as a large de-
tachment of carpenters and others had been sent
to her. The Canadian Government would be pro-
rouged about the middle of the present month,
immediately after which the Governor-General
would make a visit to England.
Our advices from France this morning inform us
that the state of the elections remain the same ;
the only difference being that a larger number of
non -official candidates have come forward, some
of whom have only their personal ambition in
view, whilst others are actuated by the desire of
reforming the existing institutions of the Em-
pire. The Emperor will leave for Plombieres
on the 28th. He will, on his return, visit the Qtven
at Osborne. Feran Khan, the bearer of the Per-
sian treaty, has returned to Paris. The aide-de-
camp of Prince Jerome presented himself for
election. The Emperor ordered him to desist, in
consequ3nce of his peculiar position. He has
obeyed the order, but resigned his place. The
Moniteur of yesterday announces that the Siecle
had received a third warning for an article on the
elections. It is added that, on account of the elec-
tions. the government will not use the power it
possesses to suspend the publication.
Athens advices to the 9th inst. are to hand.
The Queen Amelia was to visit Germany. This is
decided.

Respecting the Neufchatel difficulty, we have
Berne advices of the 16th inst., which inform us
that a great number of Royalists are profiting of
the permission accordel to them by the Grand
Council to return to their homes.
A Madrid letter of the 16th, states that the
official announcement of the Queen being enciente

ould be made that evening.
Letters from Dresden state that the Sardinian
matrimonial alliance will endeavour to effect a
reconciliation between the courts of Vienna and
Turin. The Diet which assembed to-day at
Frankfort, would discuss the difficulties which
have just arisen between Prussia and Austria.

THE large majority of the 140 in the division
on Monday evening leaves little doubt of the
fate of the Bill for admitting the Jews into
Parliament. And thus will be removed from

the laws of England one of the last remnants of
bigotry—a paltry and pitiable mark of degrada-
tion, accidentally left on a portion of her Majesty's
subjects ; being the fag end of an oath that was
never intended to apply to them. The oft-
quoted words of the oath, " On the true faith of
a Christian," were to exclude the Roman
Catholic, not the Jew. They were a supposed
security of the true Protestant believer as against
the untrue faith of the Romanist. Bigotry,
exclusiveness, and a zeal which is not according
to knowledge, were thus accidentally enabled to
turn them against the professors of the Jewish
faith. Now, we trust all this is about to cease.
It is little to our credit that this should have
endured so long. On the Continent, the Pro-
testant kingdoms of Holland and Prussia have
admitted the Jew to equal privileges. Roman
Catholic France and Belgium have done the
same. Protestant, constitutional, Free-trade
England held out the longest, and Mr. WHITE-
SIDE, if he had his way, would still continue to
flutter this sorry rag of persecution in the face of
Baron ROTHSCHILD. Seldom have we read a
speech in Parliament more fraught with narrow
bigotry and unchristian feeling than this
elaborate deliverance of Mr. WHITESIDE. It
was meant to be the great telling speech from
that side of the house, and the amount of it is,
that the Jew is not a Christian ; that he does
not believe in the miracles which attested
Christianity ; that he is an obstinate disbeliever,
and, if admitted into Parliament, he would
unchristianise the Legislature. All these stale
fallacies we have heard over and over again, long
ago. The nation is tired of hearing them
repeated every year. Besides, Parliament ought
not to be made an arena of theological debate ;
or, if honourable members, like Mr. WHITESIDE
and Mr, WARREN, will lug in theology, let them
first know something about it. Their theology
is on a par with their politics—both somewhat
out of date.
The theory of the British Constitution is, that
all citizens should be equal in the eye of law,
whatever political or theological opinions they
may privately hold. Parliament is not a court
of inquisition into men's religious beliefs, but a
high senate of impartial wisdom to enact the
same equal and just laws for all. How can the
admission of a few Jews into the House of
Commons unchristianise the Parliament or the
people ? Two or three swallows don't make a
summer, and a few Hebrews in the House won't
Judaize the nation. How feeble would be our
Christianity if we had any reason to apprehend
such a result. On the contrary, doing this act
of justice to the Jew more establishes Christianity
among us, for it is doing as we would be done
by. But if the argument of these gentlemen
were good for anything, it would carry them
much further. Thousands of Jews reside in this
country, hold property, exercise the franchise,
worship in their synagogues, and are Sheriffs and
Lord Mayors—and does not all this tend to
unchristianise the country ? To be consistent, we
cannot stop at mere exclusion from Parliament.
The same argument, or rather sophistry, has been
used to exclude Dissenters and Roman Catholics
from political equality ; the poor Jews are
bigotry's last scape goat ; and they will soon be

free. The members of the Jewish communion
are as quiet, and useful, and industrious, as any
of her Majesty's subjects ; they are taxed and
tithed, and bear the responsibilities of citizens ;
and the justice and good sense of the English
people says, clearly and unmistakeably, let them
have the priviliges as well as the responsibilities,
the rights as well as the duties of citizens. Let
all stand on the same impartial level, as regards
law, whatever may be their political or religious
opinions. But the insincerity of the argument
for excluding the Jews, is more insulting than
its sophistry. Just as if all could swear
conscientiously on " the true faith of a Christian."
People who have no faith in Christianity at all,
can glibly utter the formal words; but the Jew
is excluded for his truthfulness, while others are
tempted to hypocrisy, because a theological
creed is made a condition of entering the British
Parliament. The nation is sick of all this ;
happily it will cease soon. The speech of Sir
JOHN PAKINGTON is highly honourable to this
enlightened Liberal-Conservative. His is
evidently an honest and progressive mind. He
candidly avowed his conversion to the side of
justice to the Hebrew, and his renunciation of
his former opinions and arguments. " Would
that all the Lord's people were prophets," and
that all Conservatives were like Sir JOHN ; how
much more smoothly would the course of legis-
lation flow ! We would then see a House
conservative of what is good, and reformative of
what is evil. Sir JOHN does not fear unchris.-
tianising the House—he seems to think that is
done already; for, says he, " already there are
Unitarians in the House." The implication that
Unitarians are not Christians, is Parliamentary
theology on which we shall not permit ourselves
to remark.

Our Prime Minister seems master of the
situation. He will carry this Bill without
making it a Cabinet question. His Lordship,
we believe, was right in declining to make any
change in the Bill, at the request of the Roman
Catholic deputation, headed by the Duke of
NORFOLK. It might have perilled the Bill in the
Upper House. The relief of the Roman
Catholics from an invidious form of oath will
follow another time—at present it is relief for
the Jew. Let them ;help to get justice for the
Jew, and they will be so much nearer justice for
themselves. Fair play will go all round the
ring. The House of Lords, we believe, will
have the grace to pass a Bill which is evidently
in harmony with the wishes of the nation,
and is backed by so large a number of our
representatives. And if, as we believe, our
present powerful Premier is destined success-
fully to carry his measure, it is not to be
forgotten that other men have laboured, and he
has entered into their labours; and the nation has
grown by discussion and enlightenment up to
that state in which it is safe and possible to
carry this Bill. Lord JOHN RUSSELL and others
prepared the ground and sowed the seed ; and
now Lord PAL4ERSTON, backed by his
powerful majority, comes in to reap the harvest
and gather the fruit,

OUR readers will have perceived that the ,
Select Committee of the House of Commons, over
which Sir JAMES GRAHAM presides, are still con- 'Pr'
ducting their inquiry, and endeavouring to
answer the question which the House has put to
them, viz.—" Is it for the benefit of the country
at large that we should grant the prayer of the
men of Manchester, and say that their lengthened
preamble to the Mersey Conservancy Bill is true
and legitimate r' We never had the least
objection to have the title of the Liverpool
Corporation sifted, with the view of testing
whether it was legal—aye, and just, too—to
levy the Town Dues. But certainly we had,
and still have, a strong impression that the
appointment of a chairman, whose entire
political career has been like that of the poor
schoolmaster, who once wrote a book on the
question of Education upon the principle of
expediency. Sir JAMES GRAHAM, like the
present Premier, has resembled the Apostle
PAUL—been everything to every man, in order
that he may gain something. We know, from
his past history, the vanity and the mountebank
propensities of the Netherby baronet. On the
Mersey Conservancy Bill he has out-Heroded
himself ; and the plausibility with which he
defended his truly iniquitous practice of opening
letters, when Postmaster-General, has been
cast into the shade, when he, as a judge,
undertook to decide between the usurping ideas
of the men of Manchester and the legitimate
claims of the people of Liverpool, as regards the
Town Dues. On looking at his bias, and the
close identity of opinion between himself and the
Right Hon. Mr. Lows, we cannot help thinking
that there is a sort of conspiracy between the two
to rob Liverpool of her just and equitable claims
—the Town Dues.

The cloven foot of the Right Hon. Chairman,
to which we have previously alluded, showed
itself at the earliest period of the inquiry. From
first to last he has, like the Right Hon. ROBERT
LOWE, as Chairman of a Committee last session,
been more the advocate of Manchester than
anything else. Law and equity have been
disregarded, in order that he could advance a
political theorem, which is as absurd as it
is unjust.
If anything that has transpired in this Com-
mittee more than another could prove our posi-

tion, it is the offensive and undignified attitude
assumed by Sir JAMES GRAHAM on uesday,
when the subject of warehouses was under

consideration. He sought to extort from the
witnesses examined, that the owners of ware-
house'property influenced our Municipal electioii!,
and, as a matter of course, could control the
proper regulation and conservancy of the Mersey.
Now, this is nothing more nor less than a gross
libel on the Town and Corporation of Liverpool.
It would be easy to refer to the statistics of the
borough. to show that the owners of warehouse
property are an insignificant minority of our
Town Council ; and, moreover, that they never
attempt to dictate what shall be done in regard
to the regulation and working of the Docks.
But we might go a step further, and show that
the drift of Sir JAMES GRAHAM'S cross and
re-cross examination of Mr. RALPH BROCKLEBANK,
on Tuesday, was quite fallacious, by noticing the
attempt of the warehouse owners to saddle the
owners of cottage property with certain Munici-
pal and other rates and dues. When that
struggle took place, the warehouse owners were
the challengers. The cottage owners took up
the gauntlet, and defeated their opponents in a
manner which will not be forgotten ; and if Sir
JAMES GRAHAM had not read his Manchester
brief, he would have been perfectly conversant
with all the facts appertaining thereto, and less
disposed to attempt to elicit from one of Liver-
pool's most popular merchants an idea or
inference which would indirectly stigmatise the
conduct of the Liverpool Dock Trustees.
The case for the Corporation and Dock Trus-
tees is about to be concluded. Sir JAs. GRAHAM
is evidently getting wearied of their strong
and determined defence, for day after day has
he made onsets, peculiar to himself, to cut short
the telling facts which Mr, SHUTTLEWORTH, and
the other witnesses for the defence, have placed
on record ; and nothing could more incontrover-
tibly prove that such is his feeling than the
manner in which he treated Mr. HOPE SCOTT on
Wednesday, when that learned gentleman
referred to the "scene" which took place in the
committee-room on Tuesday. Waiting until
the whole case—that of the promoters and
opponents—is closed, we shall defer further
comment. At the same time, we cannot refrain
from stating that a more partial Chairman never
ozcupied a chair in a committee-room of the
House of Commons ; and be the decision what
it may, never was the preamble of a bill less
worthy of credit, or of being sanctioned by
Parliament.

PRESENTATION.—The Rev. W. H. Denny, of St. Peter's
Church, has been presented, by the mate members of his
confirmation class, with a handsome inkstand, as a token
of their gratitude for the instruction and advice he has
given them during their preparation. An appropriate
address was read upon the occasion.
THE GREAT INDIAN DIORAMA.—There are two days
left vet for such as have not had the satisfaction of wit-
nessing this wonderful and interesting exhibition. Having
on more than one occasion expressed our opinion of this
work of art, and the pleasurable instruction derivable from
a visit to it, we have now only to say that such as allow
it to depart without seeing it will lose an intellectual treat.
CAUTION TO AMATEUR ANGLErsB AT THE LAKES OF THE
BIRKENHEAD PARK.—On Wednesday morning last, one of
the jolly gods of Bacchus, who, having recently received a
legacy, ventured upon purchasing a season ticket to enjoy the
morning air, but unfortunately the rotundity of his person,
with the aid of his rod and line, overbalanced him, and he
was precipitated into the lake, and would, in all probability,
have met with a watery grave, had it not been for the pre-
sence of an eminent Schneader and Hatter, whose peram-
bulations and tight fits are well known. It is presumed
that this will be a caution to the inexperienced, especially
the unfortunate whom we allude to.

Tan AMPHITHEATRE.—Mr. Robert Roxby, stage manager
of Drury Lane, and well known as a comedian to metro-
politan and provincial audiences, has been performing at
the Amphitheatre during the week. It is many years
since Mr. Roxby appeared in Liverpool, but his talents as
a light comedian are too well appreciated to require any
critical notice from us. Although not to be classed in the
firs, rank of the comedians of the day, Mr. Roxby is an
actor of very high comic powers, and in his present
engagement has well sustained his London reputation.
The Spanish minstrels, who have won a well-deserved
success, have also performed some of their favourite
melodies every evening.
HENGLER'S CIRQUE', DALE-STREET.—Ag we anticipated,
the novelties introduced at the Cirque this week have
delighted overflowing and fashionable audiences. The
exciting piece of the " Great Liverpool Steeple Chase" is
ably managed, and most attractive. This is the last week
of the inimitable Wallet, and those who have not seen
him miss a treat indeed. We find also that Saturday will
be the last of the grand day performances, and such as
wish to enjoy a real treat—and fine equestrianism is a treat
to every one—should not miss the present opportunity.
!fir. Hengler and his efficient manager, Mr. Francis, are
indefatigable in catering for public taste in their attractive
line, and they have succeeded.
THZ CANADIAN LAZE STEAMERS.—Mr. D. P. Michel, or
Waterloo-road, Liverpool, has recently received the most
satisfactory testimonials from passengers with regard to the
ccmfort, economy, and speed of the royal mail line of
through steamers on the Canadian lakes, and which vindi-
cate most completely the company who have the management
of this traffic from the aspersions cast upon them by the
Grand Trunk Railway authorities. It appears that the whole
of the passengers in the Ocean Bride, although not booked
and the majority of those in the ships Arran and Florence,
preferred the steamers to the Grand Trunk Railway—the
changes being fewer, the accommodation better and
cheaper, the luggage of passengers being carried free, and
there being only a few hours difference in point of time
between the boats and the railway.

Tbc foundation stone of a new Roman Chatholic chapel
has been laid at Garstang, by Dr. Goss, the Bishop of
Liverpool. It is to hold 600 persons. Mr. Paley of Lan-
caster, is the architect. •
SUPPLY OF GUANO.-A petition from Berwickshire repre-
sents that diminished supplies of guano must be followed
by 'a diminshed production of the food of the people,
therefore in a national as well as in an agricultural point
of view, it is the duty and interest of the government to
endeavour to discover deports of guano, nitrates, or other
fertilising substances which can contribute to the further-
ance of agriculture, and consequently to the national pros-
perity. That every encouragement should be given to
private parties for discoveries of fertilising substances in
any part of the world, but they should not be recompensed
by the grant of a monopoly for a term of years, or per-
mitted to levy so large a royalty as that of £1 per ton with-
out some obligation on their part that the guano shall be
shipped in a genuine state.
CONVICT DIETARY IN THE MILLBANK PENITENTIARY.—

On Tuesday afternoon, an inquest was held in the Mill,
bank Penitentiary before Mr. Bedford, on the body of
James Knott, aged 20, a convict. It appeared from_ the
evidence of the prison authorities that the deceased, was of
respectable connections, but although so young h.e had been
twice transported. The last time he was received into the
prison was in February, 1856, when ho 'a;as in a very low
state, suffering from cough, spitting of
exhibit-
ing all the symptoms of pulmonary 'consumption, He was
, not allowed to do any work, h tAood, and
was soon after admitted
into the infirmary, having
the daily attendance of th 3
resident surgeon, and most nourishing diet. His
disease being cosfirtta, be never rallied, and died on
Saturday last. Dt
deceased had bp . Baly, physician to the prison, said the
:en under his care, and received every atten-
tion and nr,nrishment his case required. The coroner
remarked, that the Infirmary diet of the prison was
s.,ullni-Jr to anything that persons at liberty, even in com-
PPAable circumstances, could obtain. Dr. Baly said they
had fowls, rabbits, pigeons, dishes of all kinds, and the
best of soups, wine, spirits, beef tea, arrowroot, eggs. fish,
and, indeed, every luxury that could be afforded in high
life. The jury expressed their surprise and satisfaction,
and returned a verdict of " Natural death by Pulmonary
Consumption."

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