The Northern Daily Times. — 1857-05-02 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

EXTRAORDINARY NEW MOVEMENT Y DTHE TRACTARIANS. —A. movement has been set on foot by the Tractarians which will somewhat startle the religious world, and especially the Etargeiical party in the churcb, when th-y become acquainted with it through the medium of our columns. Deeply mortified at the series rf admirable ecclesiastical appointments which Lord Palmerston has made since his advent to the Premiership, they have determined on addressing the Queen, the-two Houses of Parliament, and the two Houses; of onvocation, praying that either the present system of appointing bishops may be altered, by taking-the power of apeointment out of the hands of the Premier, or that if it should be deemed expedient to continue that power in the hands of the Prime Minister, that there may be an impartial selection from all parties in the Church, so as that clergymen of t very 'variety of religious belief in the Establishment may have their relative share of the higher 'classes of good livings. It is confidently expected that out of the 18,000 clergymen in the Church, from 0,000 to 7,000 will sign these addresses.—Morning Advertiser. ' - THE KALE of Porsons.—We observe that a 'London weekly Journal has dedicated a certain portion of its space to the- purpose of chronicling deaths by poisoning. The column is distinguished by a psi manent heading, and in the number of the journal for Sunday last there are four Ciices recorded. One is entitled "By mistake;" another, " Two children poisoned 'by laudanum ;" and a third, "Tampering with poisonous medicines." es." There is also in the same pulication of the observer, the journal we allude 'to, another case of pois-,ning, clessed under the separate general heading of-" anis...ides." This is pretty well for one week's work, looked, at in the most cursory manner ; but it will bear close inspection, and show a condition of things in merry England, which, the limes wee well justified in saying some time since, is not to be paralleled in any, civilised country in the world. The poor, suicide was a girl of twenty of considerable attiactions, and whose manners and education were superior to her rank in life. She went to the shop of a druggist in Torrington, bought thesep nce worth of sublimate, and. there an end. The poison-vendor asked no questions. He labelled the packet with the word "-poison," but as he repeatedly sold the drug for disease in sheep, he did not enquire how the girl meant to use her acquisition. " The poison is so gea *rally used that he dues not take down the names of those who buy it." In the case of poisoning by mistake the agent. was ammonia, which was inadvertently left in the way of melancholy man, and them too was an end of him. The two children poisoned by laudanum were respectively a month and six months old. Their mothers were busy washing; some laudanum was fetched from the shop of a druggist at Bilston, the infants were quieted with a little of it at nine o'clock in the morning, and at nine at night they ceased from troubling. There was an end of them. The fourth victim was a washerwoman, seventy seven years old; Her cough, like the crying of the young children, was harassing, and her daughter purchased for her a pennyworth of " paregoric" of Mr. Fenwick, of Gateshead. She also fell into a profound sleep—a sleep th tt knew not waking. If she bad been younger and more robust such a dose of paregoric would not have killed her; but she was old and weak, and there, too, was an end of her. Now, where is the blame of these five deaths to rest? It may be said that the wretched suicide would have found the means of executing her unhappy purpose, even though she could not have procured poison ; but we have Snakeepeare'seuthority for believing that the strongest temptation to commit a crime is often found in ready access to the instrumente and this.peor young girt found the weapon for self-murder ready to her hand. It was placed within ben reach through the culpable neglect of those who, having the power to provide for the fublie safety, neglect to exercise it. To that neglect the other four homicides by misadventure are even snore directly traceable. The law suffers all who please to carry on the very free-est trade in poison. The Government and the Legislature are responetble for that barbarous state of the law. They could amend it if they wished, or rather if they could summon np courage enough to brave the opposition of the chemists and druggists, whose influence in the boreughar f England is the real obstacle to a proper regulation of the poison trade. Why cannot the Honourable Neal Dow and his Cie-Atlantic allies direct a little of the propagandist energy they are wasting upon the Maine Liquor Law to the advocacy of protection for new-born babes from the perils of the drug shop ?—Glasgow Mail.  SLAViIIY-WHAT IS SLAVERY ?  TO THE LDITO It or