The Northern Daily Times. — 1856-12-08 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

SALE. 25 Curs of SARDINES, all faults. THOMAS PARRY, Broker,  Apply to  THIS DAY,  as the unwilling slaves of a dreadful storm. As yet no disasters of any consequence have been named, but no doubt a few days' posts will bring us unwelcome tidings from sea. The weather at sea must have been severe, for it was only last evening the screw steamer Canadian, one of the Montreal Ocean Steam-ship Company's vessels arrived from Quebec, although expected here on Wednesday. We learn that she encountered very boisterous weather, and lost the greater part of her boats. At the time we write there is not any intelligence of the Europa, which was to sail from New York on the 20th ult. Crime is on the increase. Despite of capital punishment, of transportation, and penal servitude, murders and highway robbery are now becoming daily occurrences. To day wo publish the particulars of a terrific double murder in Yorkshire, and when one contemplates the circumstances under which the foul assassins completed their barbarous tragedy, the heart sickens, humanity is shocked, and we are almost disgusted with our species. According to our latest advices respecting this truly melancholy affair, we learn that suspicion points to two men who were seen to enter the village late in the evening of Thurday, and the police are actively engaged in the endeavour to trace the parties. The shop was not closed until eleven o'clock. The deceased was considered ecceniric in his manner of business, but was a most striving and industrious man, and was esteemed by all who knew him. There can be doubt that the object was money, and in all probability they have succeeded in securing some. To this appaling crime we have to add the highway robbery of Mr. Singlehurst, in Birkenhead, on Saturday night. These, With other cases of less import, are duly detailed in other parts of this day's impression. In the midst of such criminality, and when neither life nor property is secure, every one is asking themselves the question, How is it that the administration of " law and justice" does not, cannot, arrest the spread of the worst of crime ? We fear that much of the present outrages against life and property arises from the " ticket-of leave system" which has been in vogue for some years. The experience of the past warrants us in declaring it to be a complete failure. The good intentions of its advocates have not been realised—the liberated convict is unreformed, and he is let loose upon society to inflict still greater injuries, and perpetrate more audacious and barbarous brutalities than his original offences. We consider that it is full time the Government should again resort to transportation—nbt to the Australian colonies, __ many other parts of the globe which are under the sway and controul of the British Crown. What we contend should not be done with these criminals is, to turn them loose, under circumstances that make their entering on a fresh career of crime a matter of certainty during the uncom pleted term of their former sentence. We would object to any renewal of this most dangerous experiment, and we confess to an inability to discern any good reason why it should not be at once abolished, instead of being persisted in, until the whole of the offenders comprised in the class of " old transports" shall have had these " condi• tional" pardons extended to them, which are in effect an unconditional liberty to commit new offences• Transportation to a penal colony is objected to because it is expensive. The expense of maintaining the convict is, however, not to be compared with the loss incurred from his depredations when at large. There can be no renewal of transporta. tion to the settled colonies which have outgrown it, even to those whose present prosperous existence and promising future are derived from their origin as convict settlements. But in the vast range of the British possessions there may be chosen some regions eligible for the re-commencement of a mode of disposal of our criminals, which, whilst giving them the best chance of restoration, after a probation of punishment, undoubtedly offers a greater security to society than any substitute that has been tried or suggested  R. J. NODDER Will respectfully offer his Selection of 'Parisian" and English RIDING and WALKING HATS, BONNETS, and CAPS, with every description of Trimmings, Feathers, Laces, &c., of the most fashionable and tasteful kind.  81,