The Northern Daily Times. — 1857-04-10 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 1857.  THE DAY'S NEWS.  At the meeting of the Dock Committee yesterday no public business of importance was transacted. Letters from two firms engaged in the fruit trade were read, complaining in a very energetic manner of the enormous charges on goods landed in Stanley Dock. It would appear that the charges are in almost all cases double, and in some cases treble, what they would be in any of the other docks. Such a state of things ought to be remedied. The letters were referred to the Warehouse Committee.  At the Health Committee the only allusion made to the late disgraceful proceedings at the Necropolis was that by Alderman Cooper, chairman, suggesting that all such burial grounds should be brought under the notice of the Watch Committee, and that they should have the power, through the police, of entering them both by night and day. Mr. M`Gowan intimated that such a proceeding could not be persevered in, as they were private property, and could not be so entered without an order from the Secretary of State. In the meantime it is asserted that the Health Committee have received a letter from the solicitors of Mr. Kirkus, who, as far as they go, entirely exonerate Mr. Kirkus from any blame in this affair, and also stating that the directors or committee of shareholders of the Necropolis were aware of the irregularities which had been going on for some time. This is all very well. Mr. Kirkus must have also known that the dis reputable practices complained of were being carried on, and why did he not at once stop such a course. He is as much to blame as the Committee ; and it is to be hoped that the Health ,committee will see that the law is enforced, and that those breaches of moral rectitude are severely punished. The Cheshire County Magistrates and the Birkenhead Commissioners are at loggerheads as to which shall have control over the town• ship of Claughton. The former have decided that tie county chief constable shall take possession of the township, and the latter that their superintendent shall do so. The Home Secretary must be applied to to settle the dispute. It would now appear that the Ministerial candidate for the Speakership of the new House of Commons is to be Mr. Evelyn Denison. Mr. Baines has been set aside, it seems, because he is too old, and can't see well enough; and Mr. Fitzroy because he is warm tempered, and may at any time succeed to a peerage by the death of his brother. At the Central Criminal Court, yesterday, Webb, who had been indicted for the attempt to murder Mr. Alfred Buckler, in a second class railway carriage on the North London Railway, was placed upon his trial, and, after a patient hearing, was found guilty. He was sentenced to transportation for life.  Yesterday, the ancient and Royal charities incident to Maunday Thursday, were distributed to thirty eight aged men, and thirty-eight aged women, the numbers of each sex corresponding with the age of the Queen. The elections are drawing to a close, and in a few days we shall have complete returns. In fourteen of the Irish boroughs the late members have been returned without opposition, and in Coleraine Dr. Boyd has replaced Viscount Naas without a contest. Eighteen boroughs have been contested ; nine have returned their late representatives; end eight have chosen new members. In Galway, Mr. A. O'Flaherty, one of the old members, has been returned, with Lord Dunkellin as his colleague, in place of Mr. Martin Joseph Blake, who represented the town for .many years, but