The Northern Daily Times. — 1857-01-13 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

GREAT CHARLOTTE-STREET, LIVERPOOL,  town, if Mr. Jeffery's offer had been accepted --:namely. that for an additional expenditure of 100,000/—he would have produced en additional 45,000,000 gallons, making a total supply of 90,000,000 gallons per week. " Surely, indeed," as MY. Jeffery remarked, "some evil genius did preside . at the introduction of such a scheme." We are sure that our readers will find deep interest in perusing the able. argumentative, and masterly speech of Mr. Jeffery. He put the water committee hors de combat, tore to pietas their flimsy and fallacious reasoning, and gave the ratepayers of his ward an evidence of his ability as a debater and a man of business. We would allude to an 'admission made by Mr. Alderman Holme, namely, that if Mr. Jeffery's proposal had been accepted, he had no doubt the quantity of water named, 90,000,000 gallons per week could be produced. The motion of Mr. Bennett was negatived by a vote of 32 to 10. After this, Mr. Picton moved that the Town should not be supplied with the Rivington water for a month, in order to afford time to obtain further and complete analysis of the character and component parts of the water. Another discussion ensued, which was only a continuation of the former arguments pro et con The debate was enlivened by a passage of arms between Mr. Jeffery and Mr. William Earle, and from what took place we fancy that the hon. member for Abereromby Ward will be slow in again attacking Mr. Jeffrey, or attempting to interrupt or pu t him down when in the midst of an argument. To the report of the debate, and our remarks respecting the analysis of the water we now refer our readers. The intelligence from the Continent this morning is but of little moment. The funeral of the late Archbishop of Paris took place on Saturday. His assassin has been _transferred from Mazas to thConciergerie, to await his trial. He is au secret, and watched night and day, to prevent him from corn mating suicide. On being asked whether he had chosen an advocate to defend him, he replied that he did not want one, and was prepared to defend himself, It is even reported that he threatened to make disclosures that would necessarily lead to his pardon. The French law does not allow a man to be tried for his life without the aid of counsel, and, when a prisoner refuses to name one, the court appoints ex officio an advocate to defend him. In the present case the president has selected M. Nogent-Saint Laurens. It is confirmed that the trial will take place on Saturday, the 17th, and that M. le Premier President Delaugle will preside. The intelligence concerning the arrangement of the Neufchatel difficulty is confirmed by our French advices. The assent of the Swiss Federal Assembly is only wanting to render the adjustment complete, and it is fully anticipated that this representative body will supply the want in its sitting fixed for to-morrow, the 14th, that is to say, one day before the Prussian menace was to be executed. It is true that, according to telegraphic information, the official Prussian paper contains a flat denial that mediation has taken place, but we hope to be justified in assuming that this means nothing but the self-evident fact that, with the peculiar character which the mediation bore, official cognizance of it has been purposely withheld from the Prussian Government.. It, the meantime we are assured, in letters from Berlin, that so strong is the confidence which the King entertains in the preservation of peace, that orders have been already issued to stop all further preparations for war.