The Northern Daily Times. — 1857-02-17 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1857.  THE DAY'S NEWS.  test night James Sadlier was formally expelled from the House of Commons, on a motion of the Attorney-Gemiral, who entered into a kind of explanation of the conduct of the Government in this singular affair. The sense of the House was evidently censuring that of the authorities for delaying so long in taking steps to render the constituency of the County Tipperary vacant. The Budget is to be discussed in the Ways and Means Committee. The Chancellor of the Exchequer stated to the House an estimate of the revenue of the years 1858 9 and 1859-60. He anticipated that in the former the revenue would be £62,300,000, and in the latter £62,365,000 ; and he estimated an extraordinary expenditure for those two years of £35,000,000 each year, being a net revenue of £58,000,000. The Atlantic Telegraph Bill, and the Liverpool and Birkenhead Docks Bill were read a second time. In the House of Lords, Lord Clarendon said he had received a communication which led him to the belief that the Persian affair would be satisfactorily settled. Our columns to-day contain a terrible record of crime. Murders, forgeries, robberies, and cases of stabbing seem to be of almost daily occurrence. On Friday night, a murder, accompanied by robbery, was committed upon the highway botweeia the villages of I\ utfield and Warwicktown, in Surrey, a draper named Ovenden having been shot with a pistol, on hi; return from Godstone, and robbed of between and £5. The circumstance has occasioned a good deal of alarm, not only in Nutfield, near which village the murder took place, but  throughout the whole district. A man Went to the Halifax Police Ofice, on Saturday, and made a confession, the purport of which was, that he and a companion murdered tha Governor of Carlisle Gaol, by throwing him ovtr the bannisters of the stairs some fourteen years ago. The authorities of Carlisle have been communicated with on the subject, but the result is not yet known. Two young men quarrelled in T ondon on Sunday, and one stabbed the other in the breast with a sharp pointed table knife. The wound is likely to prove mortal. The assassin has so far escaped. A person of "gentlemanly exterior" has been disposing of stolen 'railway bonds and other securities, through the Binning ham Stock Exchange. He has not been arrested. A meeting of the tea trade was held in Landon yesterday. The meeting denounced the course proposed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in raising the tea and sugar duties, as an explicit breach of faith, as well as a violation of free trade and an act of gross oppression towards the poor, to save the pockets of the rich The local items this morning are interesting. The annual meeting of the Church Pastoral Aid Society was hell last night, the Lord Bishop of Chester in the chair Orsini delivered his lecture on Austrian mis-government in Italy, in the Clayton Hall, last night, and the usual fortnight). meeting of the Birkenhead Commissioners was also held last night. A fall report of all these will be found in to day's paper. The Continental intelligence this morning is int,. 'restiim. The French Chambers were opened by the Emperor in person yesterday. Napoleon 111. announces that peace has been signed ; that the Prussian and Helvetic dispute has lost its warlike character ; that the Western Powers have disagreed with Naples through a desire .to favour humanity and civilisation ; that the national expenditure will be reduced, and that the pay of the soldiers will be increased. He announces that henceforth the conscripts will serve only two years instead of seven. A grant is given for the establishment of the Transatlantic Steam Company. The Moniteur contains an article upon the laws of the French press. It says " the decree of February 17, 1832. which ordains that two judicial condemnations against a periodical newspaper shall entail its suppression, adds that the offences or contraven tions of law must have been committed within the space of two years. Some journals have just raised -the question of whether the latter regulation might not be made applicable by analogy