Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-08-26 00:00:00

go there to urge and advocate his own peculiar,
and, it may be, crude and unintelligible ideas.
He is there as the delegate of the Ward, and his
duty is to reflect by his speeches and his votes
the opinions and the wishes of the Burgesses who
elect him. It is no representation when a
member of the Town Council votes and speaks
in complete opposition to :his constituency.
The moment he is placed in the disagreeable
position of adopting a line of conduct opposed to
those who return him to the Council, that
moment honour and honesty, should compel him
to resign his trust. If he does not do so, the
electors have a duty to perform, and that is to
reject his services on the first opportunity which
presents itself.

Already there are no less than seven or eight
of the Town Council who retire on the Ist of
November, ‘` spotted" for their advocacy of the
Pike project, and on every occasion using their
influence not only to perpetuate the job,
but to heap contumely and scorn upon
that portion of the community which has deemed
it a bounden duty to remonstrate against the
whole affair, The names of these gentlemen we
have already given in the NORTHERN TIMES, and
justified their non-return to the Council after the
next municipal election. Independent of being
Pike advocates, they lent themselves to the
objectionable course of elevating a number of
" outsiders" to the Council Chamber as aldermen
without being subject to an election by the
people. These gentlemen may have forgotten
their votes of the 10th of November last. We
have not, and when the proper time arrives we
shall have more to say respecting them, Mean-
time, from what has taken place since last
November, we are fully confirmed in the sound-
ness of the views we then urged. Now, more
than ever, are we prepared to advocate the
expulsion of the Pike adherents—now are we
prepared to urge, day by day, the sound duty
which devolves upon each elector, and show
that he will basely betray his own and his
neighbours' interests if he neglects to contribute
his share of exertion towards rendering the next
Town Council powerfully anti-Pikeist in its
principles and practices. We only regret that
the municipal tenure of certain aldermen—who
have for several years past rendered them-
selves obnoxious to the ratepayers by their
repeated prattle upon the excellence of the Pike
water—is so long. Gladly should we send them
home to rusticate, or, it might be, meander upon
the banks of some continental river, and there
reflect that a municipal councillor is the servant
of his constituents, and subject, as such, to
their discretion and control.

Tin MURDER ON THZ HIGH SEAS.—The Belfast Mercury
in the course of some remarks upon the recent trial in
Liverpool, says :—"As long as capital punishment is in-
Meted, it ought surely to be inflicted for such a cool, system-
atic, torturing murder as the Captain and his mates perpetra-
ted. There is not a single extenuating circumstance in their
favour ; and when we consider the fearful crimes committed
by Captains on the high seas, it is full time that a terrible
example should be made. Let, then, the law take its course,
or abolish capital punishment altogether. Da not let us
have a gross mockery of justice."

THE COURT,,ecc.

OSBORN; Aug. 24.—The Queen and Prince Consort,
Prince Alfred, Princess Alice, and Princess Helena, at-
tended Divine service at Whippingham yesterday. The
Rev. G. Prothero officiated. Her Royal Highness the
Princess Augusta of Saxe Cobourg attended the Roman
Catholic Chapel at West Cowes.