The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1888-11-17 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

UNSUCCESSFUL. T. C. Ryley (N.) J. H. Parker (C.) 8.082 W. Pierce (C.) j. B. Anderson (I.) D. S. Collin (Temp.) W. A. Newoombo (Labour) H. W. Pearson (Labour) W. King (I.) W. Saxton (I.) B. Jones (I.) C. J. Fox (I.) 452 H. S. Anthony (I.) Thus it would appear that the Roman Catholic is the best-organised and most powerful religious body in Liverpool. On the other hand, the Church of England there is scarcely holding its own, while Liverpool Nonconformity is actually losing ground, judging by the fact that its representation on the Board has been reduced by one. It should, however, "be noted—though it is not to their credit—that only a small proportion of the electors took the trouble to vote.  There will, probably, be another outcry against exciting fiction, for a youth residing with his parents in Liverpool committed suicide on Monday, and the only explanation offered at the inquest was that the deceased had been in the habit of reading penny sensational novels, it being surmised that these had affected his mind. If they had had that effect he must have been very weak. headed to begin with—as weak-beaded indeed as the poor creatures who are driven mad through attending meetings of the Salvation Army. The modern tendency unfortunately is to blame our cheap literature for a great deal for which it is not even remotely responsible.  The value of Mr. Goschen's speech at West Bromwich may be gauged by the fact that he had the effrontery to declare that many Irish evictions were scenic displays designed for political purposes. Yet the evicted have been known to lie down by the road side and die. Have they dote so to sustain the realism of the performance?  Sir Charles Warren has resigned his position as head of the London police. lie thought lie ought not to be subordinate to the Home :ecretary, add plainly said SO— hence his resignation. The Slandard, however, is not alone in thinking that the wrong man has thrown up the sponge. Let us hope that an effort will now be made to make the police more of a murderer and thief-catching and less of a military body.  The Oaths Bill was before the House of Lords on Monday, and read a second time without a division. But several of the Conservative peers spoke about it in a very lachrymose manner. Lord Carnarvon endorsed certain objections which had been urged by the Lord Chancellor,  and expressed his conviction that the measure went very far in proclaiming the dootrine that there was no connection between religion and justice, while Lord Addington announced that he could only regard the bill as a concession to unbelief and a further step in the direction of eliminating religion and the name of God from all the associations of life. The Bishop of rlisle, happily, expressed himself in a much more satisfactory manner. He put Ili charitable construction upon the absence of his episcopal brethren, and suggested that it might be regarded as an widication that they did not look upon he measure as a concession to unbelief. He himself was unable to regard it in that light, and he did not anticpate from it the dangers that had been predicted. It was necessary to get evidence in the best possible way, and in spite of the criticisms to which he should be subjected by the religious papers he should vote for the bill, which he did not consider an irreligious one. The "religious" organs to which his grace obliquely alluded will, no doubt, return his left-handed, but not undeserved, compliment with interest. It is expected that some of the reactionary peers will do their best to emasculate the bill on its third reading, and if they succeed they will only maintain the evil traditions of their house and order.  The Whitechapel murderer is still at large, and seetsp likely _to remain so. How many more hideous cr:mes is he to be permitted toeterretrate 1 The fact that he continues updete3ted clearly demonstrates the inefficiency of the police force in the first city in the world, and it is no wonder that the state of panic obtaining in the east end of Loudon is spreading through the country. It is feared that he will not always confine his operations to the Metropolis.  The death rate in Birkenhead last week was 10 per 1,000, which was the average of the aggregate rate for the twenty.eight great towns of England and Wales.  !