Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-04-23 00:00:00

YOUNG AMERICA ON SLAVERY. (After reacling T hes. Colley Grattan's "aailisedlnmazi.") NUMBER TWENTY. Let me ask the Uncle Tom party a fev Do they not think that as their philanthropic cats and dogs have been so successful in 'their hunting after pkOanthropic rats and mice—that it would be estions a change to give a little attention to 4th of Eels and buffaloes ? Is not a whi cheftr more worthy of thought thas America ? Are they aware that the sole 'atuVtion of a ill nobler gam( slave is to own a SIRVE Like m nan in Man- a black man in ster like ma Do they know that their -closet ;philanthropy for the ebony race has tion than any otiv clone more to postpone emancipa action Can they find on the face of tare globe the lower eighth of the population if any country living so happily and contentedly es .the:tiaves of the West.? Are there four millions of people better taken care of in any Lana? Did not the records of qfre - House of Commons prove that the President of :the • Liberian Republic received 1;565 dollars for , the;eloo negroes on , board the Regina Ccelia P Has emancipation worked 'well in Spanish America—in 'the French West Indies — in the Saitiskpossossions? Have not civilisation,: morality, agriculture, and Christianity, declined under 'the . -withering infimerne of the abolitionists ? Do they mot. , thinkthatovlille sixty thousand ni.inis• *lzeaching•the doctrine of our Saviour --sixty millions of Saxons ere practising Is there in reality so wide a difference between the American, slaves and the slave owners, as there is between the English aristocracy of Moses-t, and tale people Let the Exeter Halltreforrriers reflect remember:that under the pro mogeniture law, which Mr. .Locke aing is :trying to change, England entailed slavery .upon'Arnerica, her eldest son.! The negroes did •notrmake the American Constitu- ; tion. Washington vwas au officer in the British. army. Jefferson-- , Adams —Hancock - were British *subjects. All =mare not born "free and equal." I deny it. The Creator's plans cannot be thwarted by a turn of words- in a nation's declaration .of Let them' independence. I really did not intend to extend this article to its present length ; but, as I. wrote, the subject widened, and I could not well,eurtail it. I have received more letters—some censure—some Piµ--D man says cut it short, another classify your facts bettei, "-;. ,- 1 does not see any force in my argument ; then comes au.— th how such things should be written. What object have yu... What good do you. accomplish, &c. To-day I find this. on my table :—" I enjoy all you say in'the'TlMES. it nourishes me. lam improving daily. One fault only--a little too epigramatic—too true—too manv thundering, overwhelming truths crowded into one nut-shell. Had you not better fill up with lighter matter now and then, and not choke off opposition with so much energy." I begin to feel encouraged at this when another friend writes me in the strictest confidence—" your articles in the NORTHERN' TIMES. on slavery are the worst things you have ever written—bad grammar—bad punctua tion—bad spelling; &c." I ask him if that is mine or the printer's fault—and if a few able bodied ideas were not scattered along the papers ? It is all,vo.vs so—your strong points are passed over One Mena advied me not to kick against the pricks ; adding that treacle catches more flies than vinegar. , Exactly—but the truth is lam not anzbi tious to catch files, when more respectable game is on the move. "You must not consider that all Eaglishmen are stamped and labelled- Exeter Hall," writes another. Of course not; I respond ! but the .few abolition leaders were high in rank, and millions followed them without reflegtion. The Times, of Friday last, reports the debate on the West India Bill. Buxton said that it was the fall in ,) emancipation, that ruined, the West Indio ;ugar, not llow happens it that the same analogy did not apply to the Spanish colonies ? Jamaica, said Labouchere, used to send to Britain 1,500,000 cwt. of Lugar, now she sends not qutte 500,000 cwt Great 'Coolies Julwer gave some interesting facts immigration to Mauritius commenced in ,1836, susyended in ,1838, and Government took it up in 1813 ; since which 170,000 have been introduced. The sugar :crop decreasing in consequence, from 70,000,000 lbs. to 238,480,000 lbs. In British Guinea 23,000 coolies were imported; augmenting the crop from 34,000 hhds., in 1841, to .54;366 hhds., in 1844:- Trinidad was equally progressive only 10,000 being taken to Jamaica. The debate decidedly favoured co ii emigration ; , Chinese—Hindoos—but not ne griitli:: Bulwer was equal to Asiatic slavery—so was BOiion—so Labouchere—so Crossle,y—so Fortescue —but these statesmen cannot quite swallow African slavery. The yellow boys as coolies ; but not the blacks - as slaves ! - Yet the African is Salamander proof insthe cane brake; while the poor Asiatic shortens Mays No matter—let them die—fie long as the nexo,,liTes 131.111wer was eloquent when snubbing,the apostles of Uncle Toni. He admits the evil, and asks Mr. Buxtoli " What he will do with it?" ;Read his pg..l?rgion trae , say, in conclusion, a few words to the idends of WC-Anti-Slavery Society. I have fought by their .side in nt,x7youth, and now, when I think they have been misin fesmti, I still believe that our object is the same—nAmely, to give compl iblime experiment of .t €46Vireitialion. It becomes them above all men to do their yi,rerider prosperous the colonies in wl b 4 ina,43o4shed Every hundred weight of sun bY , the immigrant at Jamaica is a hundr€ fiiim-thetnnrket of Caban slaves. Will slave states follov awl' slavery ,ht withdrawn it ? Can capital our example, unless capital flourish under risk - unless it has the right to hire labour wherever Itirou; is willing to be hired ? I warn them, that if by any tt of over zeal on oil bilifp;w;inkired, it is we who shall rivet the bonds of negTo ittiver/ ifibeiever it yet desecrates a Comer of the earth. '74-51(Wei17- curses the white man, and blesses the -slave!" 'f' ll ltre - is many a Southern planter that will endorse flint view--but he dare not. It is more difficult to . taantipate the whit es than the blacks. They s' _by institution as they would by their bales n cotton. In reality, there is much difference of *tam in the Slave States ; but knowin g that associa iinn.,, is:, their ; strength, good representatives are mehiigedr:to endorse the bad—a division in, the camp ''creates diSaster—the South speaks as one man, kc.• -Aerhe'cowardly act of striking below the belt —the witeilewes -strangulation of the Indian Thug - the Panite thrust—were no more ignoble . no mere unnunly---not half so disgytegul as that brutal assault of a Southern Trepre'sentative upon a Northern senator- Yes—the Southerners have been goaded on to say things and do things that - naching but the sense of injury would make than say and tie. The grim, destroyer has crossed tile threshold of the Carolinian . Let him rest,—and let us hope that the south will never again have , oaoasion to endorse an net that, would bring disgrace - yap:in aprize ring. The Northern! Senator, however, las not learned the manliness of lesigzotion. "Gtmernor Banks deserves the seat. I like Mr. 'Sunnier, but the nation (cannot afford these stirring times to keep a vacant chair in the upper house ;for martyrdom or ,p6fitical purposes. As the north 'taunts the south so has England abused America. 'Lock out for your geese when the fox trams preachy The spring-guns and man-traps of the anti-slavery party had b&tter be broken for while. "'Famarity eeds , contempt"—especially .With castor oil. Americacdeclines England's kind assistance on this Theory will not navigate a man of war. It is' easier leading a horse - to water than to make him drink." En - gland makes fun of -us by agitating this ques tion. 'She criticises, butdoes not create. She sees the nuisance, but declinesto soil her white kids with the. chip. Always talking Emancipation, but never suggesting the plan. Will she open a sinking fund'? 'Here is an idea. "Negroes grow wool-; -wool is valuable; each slave could - raise one pound der annum• ; 4',000,000 slaves now produce 4,00%000 lbs. At me shilling the 20'3,000. Ten years would give Then, is the • nest-egg of a fund where nobody is the loser. The negro cuts his own hair, and thereby purchases his own freedom ! , will also suggest that England, during this period of ten years, should devote all the philan throphy she may:thave 'to spare, after removing the beggers from her streets—' and improving the condi tion of her poorsr classes-4o the wretched natives described by Dr;Livingstone. 'Leave America alone for - the time. 'Let the problem work. Africa is a wider' field. It is too much to ask of 'England not to buy our .slave -grown cotton, or sugar, or tobacco. It is too much to ask her for money to purchase emancipation. It is too much to expect her-to break Up any: of her charities, or lessen her philanthropy. Therefore, let her devote a portion of her time to Africa. America will keep —the slaves will not run away. In MO there will •be six millions. I ask this as an experiment. If it does not-work—at - the end of the• time. England can get her -porcupine quills ready to throw again at .America—but meanwhile, let her rest. Sowing in'the sand yields no harvest. - --; 1 1 not extinguish fire---nor is a sieve the proper thing for drawn % t„.„ will not float— neither can England force America to !ALL,— hundred millions sterling into the abolition lagoon. The abolitionists have been for thirty years legis lating far the blacks. Nov I have a great respect for the whites. The-blacks are a decent but a bad smelling race—the whites are comparatively sweet. Now, as there are sort* .fifty-six ,millions of very respectable white people in our lands, and only four millions of negroes, the majority for once ought to rule—not fifty-four, forty,—but fifty-six to four ! During the ten years -that the hair is growing to natter pound you have X100;000. Herc raise the 'two million sinking fund, and England is pushing her blue-pill-philanthropy down the throats of the Africans, some abolition alchemist may possibly discover a process to galvar)49glilAckWSl4l. stand lv the ropes, and place our *banners on the outer wails. Napoleon suggested that each negro should have a white,Wife, and each Saxon should have.a 'black wife, but all.this would require time. The world was not made in a day, nor can you make a black man white with , one generation of abolition chalk. Americans are weary of being misrepresented, and ask - the Uncle'Tom Party, as a special favour, to leave :them ialone 'for the. above time. Sensible Englishmen 'have similar opinions, but there are a few, in high places, who continue to delude the 'masses. 'They 'forget that a sparrow in hand is 'worth two vultures on the-wing. The fable of the dog, who lost his mutton by biting at the shadow, is instructive. 'While•the abolition party are catching flies, the hornets escape. The difference between the American slave and the Blase negro polist is, that one works to get meat for his stomach, the other to get stomach for his meat. An argus on American slavery, but -a mole on English ' poverty. It is not safe to put Reynard on the jury in a poultry trial. The Emancipation Bill was ushered in with elaborate dinners, hot suppers, nice tea parties, and mutual admiration ,committees, but that day is passed. Buxton endeavours-to prove that the West Indies still flourish, but gives •no credit to free immigration The American slaves are not imprisoned for debt. The American slaves are not forced into the army, to be shot down, as the general may dictate. The American slaves have never been known to starve oil the plantations. The American slaves never die for want of medical aid. The American slaves spend more money, and throw up more fireworks on the Fourth of July than their white owners. The American slaves had engaged every carriage at the livery stable one holiday in Louisville, Kentucky, some few years ago, preventing me from my drive in the country. The American slaves dress better than the English colliers, or miners, or farmers, or operatives. The American slaves show more affection for their masters than the aforesaid for their employers. The American slaves are seldom seen in the poor houses, pauper institutions, or prisons. The Ameri can slaves go to church on the Sabbath, and number more members of the Baptist and Episcopal Church, than the white dwellers among them. The American slaves never know the wants of famine or of war. The American slaves consider themselves the The American slaves lave a voice in the election of the government— aristocracy of the negro race, three votes out of five —that is, he is recognised to land that do not vote, do not take part in the elections, appear to be of no account whatever—a Chiltern Hundred constituency. The American slaves show more hale and hearty old men among their numbers than any other class. The American slaves are fond of shooting, alit kill much of the game for the southern markets—the profits of which they are allowed to retain—while the poor labouring man in England, who squeezes out his ten shillings a week to support half-a-dozen children, renders himself liable to transportation or imprisonment by shooting a pheasant or a hare ! The American slaves ride in the same carriages with their masters and mistresses—while the free negroes are requested to keep at a respectable distance. I abhor the institution of stay - ,i 7 , but it SCCMS THE NORTHERN TIMES SATURDAI, APRIL 23, 1859 exactly tg *nit the temperament of the American slaves. No -oziOsples, no crutches, no mutilated blackmen mea:you in the southern cities, for there are few deformed, few ill-shaped beings in the slave ranks. They are born, they live, they die, they eat, they driik, they sleep, and enjoy the sweets of labour. *The American slaves are advancing ; their masters are receding. Want brings thrift ; thrift, plenty; plenty, wealth ; - wealth, luxury ; luxury, idleness; idleness, ruin and decay. Such is the march of events in the Southern States. The slave-owners will wake up from their lethargies when the abolitionists leave them to themselves— not before. Continual fault finding, continual re crimination does not engender love or friendship. The bow long 'bent waxeth weak. Let the North mind its awn affairs. Let England look at home. The South is fully twnty-one years of age. Two years before the Emanepation 13111 passed, the historian Allison said, " Slavery-is not only not an evil, but a positive advantage, and a necessary step in the progress of improvement in the early ages of mankind." Survey the globe in ancient and modern times, and you will find slavery co-existed with the Inman race, and continuing, though with mitigated features, through all the glories of ancient civilisation. The ages of Pericles and Antony, of Cicero and Socrates, of Fabricus and Justinian, were equally distinguished by the universality of this distinction among 'the labouring classes. Twenty thousand freemen in Athens gave law to four hundred thousand slaves. For a thousand years, slavery was universal in Europe, and it still remains in some of the most extensive of its monarchies. Why, if immediate and unconditional emancipation from servitude was intended to follow the Christian religion, did it submit to unmitigated slavery for fifteen hundred years after the introduction of that faith .P Five years after the passing of the African Act, Allison again took up the question in Blackwood's Magazine. The apprentice term had expired. The falling off in commerce and morality was poorer, yet Buxton gloried over what Allison pronounced with figures of arithmetic, as well as logic, was a miserable failure. Speaking of the " absurd and delusive prin ciple" of the act which demonstrated that five years were sufficient to clothe the class with the habits and desires of Freeman, and render the transition from servitude to liberty as safe and salutary, he says : "It may safely be affirmed that five hundred years would have been little cut-nigh for the momentous change. How long did it take to wear out slavery in the British Islands ? Five centuries. Why was 4aleyer found possible to extirpate it, even amidst all the , andcivilisation of Greece and Rome ? Why does it still . inished rigour, over two-thirds of the globe ? because, it is a necessary step in the progress of civilisation—because, without it, savage man, never has worked, and never will work—because, without its,eoercion, the human race would be chained for ,ever to the hunter or shepherd state—because, but for :the slavery of our Saxon progenitors, we would now have been wandering •in the woods— because, whatever evil may be attendant on servitude—and they are many and grievous =they are trivial in comparison to the upiyprsal and wider-spread penury, the total stoppage which instantly follows the cursing of uncivilised man with the nominal blessings, but the real destitu tion .of freedom." Allison indignantly records, in 1839, " that the slave trade had been DOUBLED IN EXTENT AND QUADRUPLED IN HORROR, throughout the globe, by the monstrous act ; and the sufferings of the African race, under European cupidity, are now incompara bly greater than when the philanthrophy of Wilber force and Clarkson first interposed for their relief." Burton , himself estimates that one hundred and fifty thousand negroes were transported from African ports to the West Indies and the Brazils the very year the .800,000 slaves in the British Colonies were freemen. The bill passed the Commons on the 7th, the Lords on the 19th, and received the Royal assent on the 28th of August, 1833, but did not go into effect till the Ist August, 1834. Buxton estimated the annual Brazilian import alone was 100,000—aid gives figures to prove that 78,331 were landed at five ports in Brazil in the year ending Ist July, 1830. Sir William Gore Ouseley, in 1835, and another omeial on the spot as late as 1840, testified that the trade had been and continued to be largely on the increase. Buxton put down 60,000 per annum to Cuba—and taking Porto Ricco &c., he estimated the annual import at 150,000. Captain M'Lean, Governor of Cape Coast Castle, testified to 140,000 having been carried off from the Bights of Benin and Biafra in 1834. HIGH WATER. Morn. Even. Height THIS DAY WIND At LIVERPOOL,—N.N.W.—Light breeze lIOLYHEAD,—N.N.W. Do. OFF THE PORT. Spirit of the Age ; Nemisis iss), Bordeaux Four pounds value of Brazilian tobacco in rolls, Manchester piece goods, cowries, and spirits, was about the price of a negro. These cotton goods made expressly for the slave trade, are slave manu factured in Lancashire. S AILED Jackson, Riley, Captain Lyon, Ritter, Browne, Burkhardt, Colonel Leake, Dr. Halroyd, Dr. Bow ring, are among the travellers, ,residents, and writers on Africa during the last fzfty years, who tesitfy to the foreign and home slave trade. Cara van after caravan of negroes have been marched across the burning sands of Africa, to supply the 50,000 slaves required for the slave owners of the East, while ship after ship transported the 150,000 landed on the slave plantations of the West. " The whole, or the greater part of that immense continent," said Bryan Edwards, "is a field of war fare and desolation, a wilderness in which the inhabitants are wolves to each other." MARITIME EXTRACTS. Bruce, who was in Abyssinia in 1770, said : " The Gromach men are all killed, and are then mutilated, parts of their bodies being carried away as tropics ; several of the old mothers are also killed, while others, frantic with fear and despair, kill themselves. The boys and girls of a more tender age, are then carried off in brutal triumph." Mungo Park describes the slave war between the Kings of Bambarra and Kaarta, where the popula tion of three villages were put to death. _ _ _ OUTPORTS, FOREIGN PORTS Lord Muncaster, Grossvenor Smith, Major Gray, Captain Moresby, Major Denham, Clapperton, Com modore Owen, Mr. Ashmun, Laird, Rankin, Colonel Nicholls, Mr. Oldfield, Captain Cook, Canot, and several others, have most minutely described the wretched state of the negro in his own land. Each has testified to the low state of civilisation—and did not most of these travellers and writers look through English eyes and abolition spectacles, they would all and every one admit that the American slaves were as far above the African freemen as is is the English peasant above the Laplander. At any rate, these distinguished travellers have fairly shown that in Africa.the Exeter-hall revolutionists have a far wider pasture for their abolition shepherds to evangelise the African slave—than in the tnited States of America. "Nobility has seldom sprung from virtue—virtue still more rarely from nobility." So true Christianity, true benevolence, true friend ship for the African, does not . forsooth emanate from the noble Brotherhood who show their sym pathy for a foreign race by falsifying their own kindred. The Americans, in their conduct towards their slaves, are traitors to the cause of human liberty, foul destructors of the Democratic principle, and blasphemers of the great and sacred name they pretend to recognise, was the bitter language of Daniel O'Connell. Quoting these sentiments as a text, Francis Wyse, in 1844, penned some fifty pages of the boiled down calumnies on American slavery in his three-volumed work on the United States, which, if written with an abler pen, would be worthy of Thomas Collie Grattan. " Facility to believe ; doubt to. contradict ; good to gain ; sloth to search and seeking things in words," are the traits that mark such minds. They abuse America as naturally as they praise England. " The only pleasure which can be conformable to nature is that which knows no satiety." That measure has been discarded by the Wyse's and Grattan's of the day. Remembering the St. Domingo massacre, the Jacqueire of France, the slave revolt of Germany, Napoleon said, " Had any of your philosophical liberals come out of Egypt to proclaim liberty to the blacks or the Arabs, I would have hung him up at the masthead." Whately says that many " well meaning men voted against the abolition of the slave-trade, because it was advocated by some parti sans of the French Revolution." England, however, fifty years ago, threw up her hand, and Spain and Portugal continued the game were all the cards were trumps. From Ist July, 1827, to Ist July, 1830, the British Consul reported 150,000 negroes imported into the single port of Rio de Janeiro ! The Patriot news paper 25th June, 1838, estimated that 60,000 arrived there that year ! and Bahia, Pernambuco, Maran ham, and Para took 32,000 more. Even women were embarked in the selling of negroes. Donna Maria de Cruz, daughter of the notorious Gomez, Governor of Prince's Island, made a fortune in the traffic. Wilberforce threw his anti-slavery mantle over Buxton, May 24, 1821—two years after the debate opened in parliament with such animation as to frighten the colonists. The planters felt with the old adage, "Save us from our friends, and we will take care of our enemies." £31,882,630 1 The Jamaica Journal June 28, 1823, boils over with indignation. The opposition was as bitter as it was just. " We will pray the Imperial Parliament to amend their -I :^k bribery •to cleanse their consciences, which are corrupt; to ' • which is hypocrisy; to teach with their false alfie;,`"' g z i i, l ?_ e ' the saints ; and finally, to banish from among them a rogues, who are three-fourths of their members." Lord BroUgham said one hundred slaves were killed in Demerara by the soldiers, in consequence of the debate in Parliament having excited the negroes to rise. The Buxtonians will not even now adhiit that too much force throws out the wedge. Their little 1 _L• .a.: - - 4 nßed uttligui.u.. 0.1. 6 to the nPgrn. The more they cut down the trees, the wider appeared the forest. The elder tree grows as much in three years as the oak in twelve ; but at thirty years the oak con tinues its growth while the elder has ceased to advance. These trees are fit emblems of the two races. Freedom to the African lightens up his narrow brain, for a short period only, to be the darker afterwards. Like the Mirage, on his sun burnt sands —admiring the benefits of liberty he never reaches —he sees it in theory, but he cannot practice it. The filling of a cistern will not make a perpetual fountain. " Fame, like a river, bears up what is light, and sinks what is solid." The abolition stream needs as much purification as the Thames. Had the slaves been in England, how different would have been the conduct of Parliament. But some thousand miles away lent enchantment to the picture. False affidavits could be made without detection. One case of cruelty could be easily exaggerated into a hundred. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVED. Richard Young .. Alexandria Laura Ri o G ran de l Dammarsh Maginilla Silistria .. St John, NB Cintra (ss) Oporto Kate Prince ..... Boston Jeltina .... St Petersburgh Merchant Prince.. Melbourne Anna Catharina Pernau Vallyfleld Bonny Frances Miller ....B. Ayres LIVERPOOL, April 22. The Caros, for Lisbon, has put back for repairs, towed round from Lytham. ANTWERP April 20.—The E c lip se , D e F reys, from Ostend for Liverpool, put back to Ostend, April 15. KERTCR, April s.—The Berdianski was free from ice March 20, but nothing positive is known respecting Taganrog. Several vessels have left for the Sea of Azoff, and the ethers are preparing to leave. BELFAST. April 22.—The Corfu, of Bangor, Neill, Maryport to Belfast (coals), ashore on the Coreland. The Jothampton, from Cardiff, when going to Cork, on Wednesday morning, got foul of H.M.'s ship Perseverance, and lost mainmast and stanchions. QUEENSTOWN, April 22.—Arrived : The Brill, from St John, N.B ; Boutina Lemmissina, Alexandria ; Jusacea, Matanza. Sailed : The Richard Brown, for Liverpool ; Collier (brig), Arbutus. Felicitas r hence at Texel Bertha, Sharon, and Carl—both hence at Swinimunde Truth, Beale, hence at Rouen , Baron Reetz, Tholt, hence at Taragona Laura, Cocace, and Neverisco, Canning—both hence at Naples Milan (ss), Bruce, hence at Naples, and left for Palermo Miander (ss), M'Micken , hence at Palermo Scamander (ss) Alexandria at Malta Orontes (ss), iVatson, hence at Malta, and left for Alexandria Teneriffe (ss), hence at Malta, and left for the Levant Melita (ss), Alexandria, at Malta, and left for Liverpool Clire, Anderson, Eyra, Glaydullich, and Saflower all hence at Malta Blackfriar ' Newby, Sunderland at Suez Dinah Muloch, Callao at Cochin Bona Venture, Laing, and Africa, Beatelli—both hence at Calcutta Punjaub, Spencer, Mauritius at Calcutta City of Manchester, Watson, Clyde at Calcutta Water Lily, Bolt, Buenos Ayres at Calcutta Sterling, Rowe, Madras at Calcutta The Anna Bridsou, for Colombo at Calcutta, leaky ' BANKING DEPARTMENT. Other Deposits Seven-day & other Bills 15,121,305 Notes 807,957 Gold and Silver Coin 23,002,390—Increase 18,051,375—Decrease 3,l4l,4s9—lncrease 807,957—Decrease MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL. LIVERPOOL, Friday Evening. BANK OF ENGLAND RETURNS. ISSUE DEPARTMENT. DEBIT. E. CREDIT. Notes issued Other Securities 3,459,900 I Gold Coin and other 17,407,630 Bullion £31,882,630 DEBIT. - CREDIT. , Proprietor's Capital. 14,553,000 Government Secu- 11,371,118 Rest Public Deposits 9,880,240 643,745 £38,703,623 I Total £38,703,623 Compared with the returns of the previous week; the above shows the following results : , • • Active Circulation Bullion , Rest Seven-day & other Bills Püblic Deposits Other Deposits ...... 15,121,305—Increase Government Secu- 1 11,371,118—N0 change..... rities Other Securities l6,BoB,s2o—Decrease Notes unemployed... 9,BBo;24oDecrease 650,770 Cash to liabilities t ' 501—Decrease .. l3 per Mil . Rate of Interest, 2i per cent. 1,134,310 545,159 7,489 The Stock Market opened with firmness, and closed with an extraordinary degree of agitation. Consols were first quoted }to per cent. better than yesterday. Great ex citement was occasioned by a telegraphic intimation of a panic at Paris ; but although a host of alarming rumours were circulated, the Funds, though extremely sensitive, retained considerable steadiness, and at the hour for closing the Stock Exchange were only about s per cent. lower than yesterday. At ten minutes past four, however, a positive statement was circulated that Austria had threatened an almost immediate declaration of war, and Consols sustained a fresh fall of t per cent. At a still later hour rather more steadiness was shown, but the final quotations were ;:2 3 per cent. below those of yesterday. All other classes of securities were decidedly prejudiced, and the appearance of the several markets at the close was extremely unsettled. Business was continued until an unusually late hour. — Daily News City Article, Thursday Evening. The English Funds opened with animation this morning, at the highest prices of yesterday, but the market has closed in the midst of heaviness and confusion in consequence of the crisis on Continental affairs. The fall from the highest point of the day was nearly 1 per cent. The amount of bar gold taken from the Bank to-day, for the Continent, was about £Bo,ooo.—Times City Article, Thurs day Evening. The public markets for Produce closed on Thursday after noon, aid will re-open on Wednesday next. In conse quence of the approaching Parliamentary elections, the London Colonial Wool Sales have been postponed, and are now fixed to commence on Thursday, the sth of May. THE INDIAN LOAN.-443 tenders were handed in for an aggregate amount of about £6,923,000, being only £77,000 less than the £7,000,000 required. Of these tenders, however, only 310, for a total of £5,077,000, were at or above the minimum price of 95, and consequently £1,923,000 remain unsubsccibed. RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURN s.—The Midland shows this week an increase of £5,515; the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire, an increase of £1,837 • the Lancashire and Yorkshire, an increase of £2,133 ; and the East Lancashire, an increase of £764. LIVERPOOL HIDE MARKET.-APRIL 21 Sales this week :-1,540 salted B. A. ox hides, average 661bs, at Thdsper lb, tare fibs ; 488 do, average 6211b5, at 61d per lb, tare Sibs • 38 do, average 461bs, a t 61d p er lb, tare 41bs ; 660 salted B. A. horse hides, average 293ibs, at 12s each; 501 M.F. do, average 3211bs at 10s 6d each ; 109 bales 97 bags South American hair : :White cut tails, lsts at 3s 2d, 2nds at is 9d, 3rds at is 6d ; grey stump tails, fair lsts at 2s 91d, ordinary 2nds at is sd, poor 3rds at 10d ; black cut tails, mixed, at is 10 1 4 d to is 111 d ; black stump tails, lsts at is 101 d to 2s, 2nds at Is 2d to is nd, 3rds at 9d to 91d ; matted, at is Old to is 21d; good mixed, at is 314 ; fair and fair to good mixed, 12d to is 11d; slight and slight tafair mixed 10d to lid, short 9d to 91d, common short 91d COWL, ,B,ld to 81d, damaged at 6d ; common Cordova per lb. 142 bales ... WAY. off skin, at 12d, on skin at 10 1 d fair, 22s to 26s ; common, 12s s OihdlYed, at 30s to 30s 6d; 2 hhds South American tallow : fair at 445, miltui,4lo pipes dark and greasy at 51s 9d to 52s per cwt. 4,500 Bombay buffalo horns, average 291 ozs, at 30s ' • wormed, &c, at 25s per cwt. 200 tons Smyrna valonia at £l5 7s 6d to £l5 lOs per ton. 290 tons bones, common, at £5 ; dating at £7 7s AA • LIVERPOOL TIMBER MARKET.—APRIL 21. The general uncertainty with regard to political matters in 3ontmental Europe, which at the date of our last circular exercised a depressing influence on nearly all the British markets, still continues ; and if the gravity of the circum stances connected with the dispute between France and Aus tria is to be judged by the explanations ,afforded by British Ministers to Parliament, the state of matters has not been materially improved since; cceval with this adverse state of continental affairs, we must also take into account the extensive trade derangements created by the dissolution of Parliament and the approaching general elections, and these taken in combination, together with the effect produced on the market by a liberal importation of Colonial wood, have had the effect of greatly retarding the progress of business which seemed to be foreshadowed in the earlier part of the year. Under these circumstances, it ceases to be a subject of surprise that the consumptive demand for wood has rather fallen off than been augmented. Notwithstanding this, however, prices have not been greatly changed, although the prospect of an early and brisk trade have been seriously interfered with. Pine Timber : The sales of Quebec during the month have been moderate in extent, and the rates have scarcely suffered any alteration from those quoted last month.; viz., for choice wood of from 78 to 80 feet average, from 17d to 18d, while wood of middling qualities* must still be quoted ld to 12cl per foot lower, in both instances by the cargo. Wood of 50 feet average realises 144 d per foot on the sale of a cargo. St John good hoard logs in cargo, for an average of 18 in., may be stated as worth from 21d to 22d. Small sized wood may be considered saleable at rates more dependent on the quality than the average girth. Red Pine : This article is 'dull of sale, and is only to be disposed of in small lots at from 18d to 10d per foot according to size and quality. Oak and Elm : Quebec Oak has been sold at from 2s to 2s 4d as in size and quality ; but it is dull of sale. Elm is low in stock, and wood of good quality and fresh is wanted. Hardwood : Of this the stock is light. Good St John of fair average is worth from 17d to 18d per foot. Lower Port from 15d to 16d per foot. N.B. and N.S. Pine and Spruce Deals : In our last we stated that fluctu ations in the general trade of the manufacturing districts materially influence the demand for these exceedingly useful articles ; and as experience has shown that such fluctua tions have been considerable during the past month, it follows as a natural consequence that the prices of Pine and Spruce Deals have been affected by the varying influ ences referred to. Last month we stated that cargoes arriving might be expected to yield, when sold entire, from £8 lOs to £8 15s per standard, and the result of sales since made has proved the accuracy of this conjecture, one cargo of St John sold on the Bth instant having realised £8 12s 10d. Another was offered for sale on the 20th inst., in 46 lots; of these 31 lots were sold at an average of nearly £8 12s. If the remaining 15 lots had been sold it would have slightly reduced this average. Quebec Deale • Of these +barn anlpe t rpnnyt the latest quotations for second quality bright are about £lO 10s per standard. Pitch Pine : Of this several sales have occurred since our last, partly by auction in retail lots, and partly by the cargo, but the prices generally have not trans pired. Buyers , entertaining a belief that this wood w ill b e lower in value, hold aloof, and purchase only for imme diate requirements. A cargo from Pensacola, rough in appearance and ill manufactured, but conjectured to cut up well, was offered for sale by auction on the 20th instant, and produceed 181 d per foot. Green heart : Of this the stock is heavy and the demand limited. Teakwood : A cargo from Moulmein has arrived since our last, which has been sold to the trade, the price has not transpired. Baltic Timber : Of this there has been one arrival from Dantzic on merchants' account. Three vessels, chiefly laden with spars and poles, from Drammen, Christiana, and Soon, have also arrived. Consequent on such an extest of arrivals, the market will no doubt remain for some time liberally supplied with spars and poles A. F. min. D. -MACKAY CORK CORN MARKET.—APRIL 22. White wheat, 25s Od; barley, 12s Od to 16s 6d; oats, lls 9d to 14s 6d. GLASGOW IRON MARKET.-APRIL 22 No. 1,51 s to 51s 3d; mixed warrants, 51s to 51s 3d mixed nnmbers, iron, 51s to 51s 3d; No. 3,51 s to 51s 3d Market dull and drooping. THE HOP DUTY On Thursday, a county meeting, convened by Sir Richard Tufton High Sheriff of Kent, in compliance with a requisi tion signed by nearly 1,500 hop planters, was held on Penenden-heath, near Maidstone, for the purpose of taking into consideration the propriety and necessity, on account of the great distress now prevalent among the hop planters, to address the Chancellor of the Exchequer for a remiggion of the instalment of the hop duty payable in May next, and also to confer as to the best means of correcting their present uncertain and un sa ti s f actory position relative to the Rzeise duty on hops, The. e were from about 3,000 to 4,000 enant-farmers present. In the absence of Sir R. Tun a! ' occasioned by illness, the chair was taken by the deputl High Sheriff, Sir E. Floare. There were also on the hustings : Sir B. Brydges, M.P., Mr. Deedes M.P., 'M r ' W. Martin, M.P., Mr. Wautman, M.P., Lord Holmes Sir E. Firmer, &c. After various statements upon o.th_e subject kieSolution was agreed to, which, after alludinall the low prices of hops during the last four years, reqtrsro° the Chancellor of the Exchequer to grant an entire rein of the instalment due in May next. THE-LO'NDON GAZETTE, BANKRUPTS. Richard Blackburn, Newington, tailor and draper_ William Wilsher, Maidstone, licensed victualler. Isaao George Casper, NOrwich, shoe Manufacturer- John Latch, Bristol, shipbroker. John Hutchinson Stothard, Swinefleet, Yorkshire, saddleor' Mark Benton and John Benton, Leeds, joiners and builde William Nathaniel Wynn, Greenwich, auctioneer. MR'. :MASON - ;JONES ON THE GENIUS 2 • - CHARACTER OF O'CONNELL. TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMES. ~ Sir,—On Monday, night I .was.one of the audien,_: at Hope Hall, assembled to hear the lecture of NJ, Mason Jones on the " Genius and Character the O'Connell';" and I must certainly say that if t% claim of Mr. Jones to the title of " orator " ha s better foundation than the specimen of his oratorica4 ability that Was witnessed on Monday night , hi . ce . fame will not outlive himself, but, like the deceP. tl o brightness of the ignus fatuus, will blink la obscurity, when the miasma which produced it ha been dissipated. With the exception of a few- stale jests which t h a e modern " Joe Miller has " long put on record , , i n a specimen of O'Connell's brilliant, versatile, a," t powerful mind, was suffered to escape—none of til l wild and thrilling eloquence which held cutoff f the myriad thousands on the bare hill-side—nnu e i „g ° the irresistible language in which he pleaded i e . country's cause, when, alone and unfriended , 4 l forced his way beyond the portals of the-En House of Commons, and with the potency ich wizard's power had borne down the barriers wu e " for centuries had prevented the admission 0 ' a Catholic within its walls—none of the keen 4 8 . biting 'sarcasm with which he scourged his oppon ent s in the Senate House—words of fire, scorching e. le burning as they fell, and leaving such inde l l o impression on his foes, that, like beaten curs, tu f crouched at his look, awed into terror at the ee ry e thought of castigation. Instead of this, we ° e a, treated to Shell's celebrated answer to Lord LN'll hurst ; but it was intended more as a foil to bike_ the dismal outline of O'Connell, than as a tribute 1" the oratory of the gifted Sheil. ; a ble' His character of O'Connell as a mean, desPL e a man, a tier, and insincere, with all the vices, an none of the virtues of humanity, was as desercdit3uo, to the lecturer, and as egotistical a bit of bombs t, self-conceit, as it has -any time been my l e " witness or listen to. A nilt • His physical force allusions were ill-timed and "• t h of place. O'Connell naturally doubted, and NC ri n d good reason, all his physical force followers , aar never wished to be the means of inciting civil too among his countrymen. He had, in early life, "of much experience, amid the horrors of the ed Terror in France, of the baneful results of unbriu-oi passion and lawless violence, the usual attendant; la civil war. He had seen in his own land the sea the groaning under the weight of its victims, ouu. o : e t, harrowing spectacle of the roadside g i b of with its loathsome burthen. It will be wondered at, then, that he endeavoured by force to wring from the hereditary oppressors of 0 country such concessions as he could obtain, an u ' f i c s he often said, to take by instalments that jurl t h which he could not get altogether. He had un fe e d in platform bravery, and physical-force patriots Do no inducements strong enough to offer to caus e 40 .3 to expose- his countrymen to certain ruin enslavement worse than that under which ' groaned . When Mr. Mason Jones again ventures to lec,tll.6le ineConnell, let him not forget" that, while pr e , eo tA s necessary ingi l •edinft for truth in other men, e i peripatetic lect urer ; an d when si!,ciiiic(l,l,l: cv L indulge in vituperation and falsehood agalu st ", memory of the historic d ea d, h e h a d b etter select for his subjects those whose contemporaries are uat ni ll o rf existing. As in the case o f O'C onne ll, " his me — it to yet too green in ou r sou l s " for his country: l l% o j forget the sacrifi ces h e ma d e , t h e se lf-d e ntal a T ot a disinterestedness he ever exhibit e d i n hi s noble 01 exalted struggle for the freedom of his country, o f of civil and religio us lib er t y to hi s fellow- 131 % 11 g - every class and creed. If O'Connell's genius e ° A - Ain g ted in the coinage of stal e j o k es an d jack-pudgy encounters with apple-women, th en th e leetll`" to, character of him might have some dal! °D e credibility ; but when we c ons id er th at he N'15_7.." of those men who ari s e on ly once i n a long fieri years, and shine through the dimness of the r a re like beacon lights upon a receding shore, We the tempted:. to think- that the l ec t urer perve rted te a noble position to which public favour had elevs him, to traduce the cha r act er o f th e m i g h ty dead, u ci9 else, that he knew a s littl e o f the subject in his h a as he did of the " wat ers o f confirmation " to uflch he interestingly alluded in his lecture. ti l er The attempt of Mr. Mason J ones t o mea sure to him, infathomable mind of O'Connell, betrei s ht rashness and temerity not unlike that which ml _ . „O be supposed to actuat e a pi gmy w h en cr iticin't Hercules. O'Connell's fame and character ar e more lasting stability than to be in any ° affected by anything w hi c h, w ith sc h oo l-b o y Ito bility, may emanat e f rom M r. M ason Jones, vrod seems to have placed hi mse lf i n t h at undignified the very unenviable position well exemplified ia fable of the living ass kicking at the dead lion.-- I am, sir, yours &c., Kirkdale, April 18th, 1859. TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMES. f Sir,—Allow me to add my testimony t o that',„ f Mr. Redm on d, i n hi s l etter in Thursday' s NORT II ;1 TIMES, on Mr. Mason Jones's lecture on Di:ji O'Connell. Aft er h ear i ng Mr. Jones's inoitv-35 discourses on S w ift, Mil ton, Curran, &c., ilOO most melancholy to listen to his rabid atnert poor Daniel O'Connell. It w as h arm l ess , hof e gr, because of its virulence ; and no one who her u „ c ed , Jones on th a t even i ng w i ll, I am sure, be Mole' by his opinions. Sir, I assure you he so far forgothimselfas , to some dissent was ezEpressed from the galleri,'.o, shake his hand in that directioa,and shout ge hiss if you will a n d I'll t e ll you more of it.' f or became quite indistin c t i n his utterance 'foi ll •o eAtt FrA,...tvat, quite 1 1 / 1 101.an.... ..tat.rOU tv through a trap-door in the platform as if afraid face the audience. Du This latter circumstance could no t h e lp btl 4. ' un ie remarked by those who h a d a tt en d e d th e 1 " - 04 1 course of his lectures, and had seen hi m , a t the c w o of each, rest for a moment on th e p l a tf orn and t" leisurely walk down the hall Liverpool, April 21, 1859 —I am, 8z( AN Ims THE REFORM MEETING AT AMPHITHEATRE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMES. 0 Sir,—ln looking ov er th e repor t o f t his in -"to paper of Thursday, I am sorry to find that you r tv the trouble and expense of printing all, of_ Te re greater part of, the silly exclamations that % if , uttered during the proceedings. Any e xpre . ss' o f on the . part of the meeting, to show approbati °ll o 4 what is said, or disapprobation, is, no doubt , 13 44 valuable in a report ; but it must have been obi.c)to to every one present that the remarks and no ises .which I allude came almost entirely frog' 1 , - 01 individual, who must attract attention, and s" us that his wit was superior to that of any one ell e heo e the meeting. As " one fool mak es many," l 7,ll Interruptions are a very great nui sance ; an d, altu ° oo it may not be possible to get rid o f th e m in r i t he meetings, I hope it may meet your views to se t example of denying them the honour of type.- I° ll . ll ? - April 21, 1859. 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