Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-08-15 00:00:00

Counurciat Saks. THIS DAY This Day, the 15th instant, at Twelve o'clock, at the Broker's Office, 1, Oldhall-street, 4,000 Bags Bengal RICE. N. WATERHOUSE & SONS, Broker TO-MORROW To-morrow, the igth instant, at Twelve Hunter,•and Co.'s Office, 2, Dale-street, 405 41ales JUTE, ex Aphrodit4, 49 Bales Bombay HEMP, ex Fearnought BROWNE, HUNTER, & CO., Broker at Browne, Apply to Apply to On account of a defaulter. To-morrow, the 16th instant, at Half-past One o'clock, at the Broker's Of f ice, Corn Exchange-buildings, Bruns - wick-street, about 20 Tons BURNT SACKS. H. H. GOLDING. Broker. On account of whom it may concern Apply to To-morrow, the 16th instant, at Half-past One o'clock, at the Broker's Office, Corn -Exchange-uildings, Brunswick-street, A Quantity of FLOUR, in srigmal packages, 'A Quantity of Mixed WHEAT, FLOUR, &c., more or less damaged by the late fire at the North Shore Mills ; and A Quantity of BURNT SACKS. Can be inspected on the morning of sale.—For catalogues and other particulars apply to H. H. GOLDING, Broker. THUItSVAY On Thursday next, the 18th instant, at Twelve o'clock, at the Brokers' Office, 4, Lancaster -buildings, 17,000 North American Ox and Cow 3,000 West India Ditto 1 HORN'. 2,000 East India Deer 1,000 Singapore Buffalo G. F. MARTIN & CO., Brokers. NEXT WEEK Apply to On Thursday, the 25th August, at Twelve o'cloek, at Broi Hunter, and Co.'s Office, 2, Dale-street, 2,000 E. I. TANNED KIPS. BROWNE, HUNTER, & CO., Broker Postponed from Thursday, the 11th instan Apply to On Thursday, the 25th inst., at Twelve o'clock, at the Brok( Office, Lancaster-buildings, Tithebarn-street, 450 Singapore Buffalo HIDES. 150 Dry West Coast G. F. MARTIN & CO., Brokers Apply to On 2,ate, CORK PICKLED BUTTER. _ WALTER A. LIAYMAN, 4, Chapel-strec Apply to ON SALE SO Tons SULPHATE BARYTES 14 Tons Devon SIIINING ORE, of very superior quality Apply to GEORGE WILLIAMS, 32, Dale-street ON SALE 40 PIPES LEiI'ON JUICE, (English pressed). Apply to THOMSON, BAGNALL, and BUTTERWORTH 30, Moorfields. ON SALE, NASSAU SELTZER WATER, Fresh and direct from the Brunnin. H. W. BUCKNALL, 4, Exchange-alley Nora ON SALT TnE CELEBRATED SWISS CIGARS OF MESSRS. ORMOND AND CO., VEVEY, IN BULK, IN BOND, OR DUTY PAID, In any quantity not less than 500. H. W. BUCKNALL, Importer and Sole Agent, 4, Exchange alley North. 6226 d Apply to enstis h'g Aurtion. Unless previously disposed of by Private Treaty. On Thursday next, the 18th instant, at Three o'clock, at Cunard, Wilson, and Co.'s Sale-room, Exchange, Liverpool, The splendid medium Clipper Barque RETRIEVER, 293 tons registe r , 372 tons builders' measurement. .Length, 117 feet ; breadth, 27 feet ; depth, 15 feet - 3-10tns. Built at Sunderland in 1853, and classed A 1 for thirteen years, when she was sheathed with yellow metal. This inn vessel, in addition to her handsome model, is as strong as the very best materials and workmanship can make her, carries 500 tons dead weight on 14 feet draft of water, and is abundantly found i n every way; stands without ballast, was launched with yards across, and can be sent to sea at once. I n P r i nce ' s Dock.—Apply to CUNARD, WILSON, & CO., Brokers. Unless lireviously disposed of by Private Treaty. On Thursday next, the 18th instant, at Three o'clock, at Cunard, Wilson, and Co.'s Sale-room, Exchange, Liverpool, The well-known Barque , OHIO, ~,*;'..q* 406 tons register. Length, 113 feet ; breadth, 25 feet ; •depth; 17 feet. Built at Boston, U.S., of line oak and = pitch pine planking ;is coppered and copper-fastened, has just delivered 602 tons gross of molasses from Cuba ; shifts without ballast, is well found in stores, in good order for any voyage, and will be found a good useful vessel for any trade her size may snit. In Prince's Dock.--Apply to CUNARD, WILSON and CO., Brokers. en 2t FOR SALE. The handy Brig NORTH STAR; • length 101 feet, breadth 23 feet 5-lOths, depth 13 feet 5-10ths, 247 tons re.ister, built at Nova Scotia in 1854, rrt.V...A% and is now classed 1E 1, is sheathed with zinc, which - in fair order, and will be found, upon inspection, a very desirable vessel for the coasting, or any other trade her size nay suit; lying in Brunswick-dock. For further particulars, liventories, &c., apply - to M. J. WILSON, 6, 'York-buildings, Liverpool. ON SALE, The Ship NABOB, length 144 feet 3-10ths, breadth 30 feet 5-10ths, depth 20 feet 6-10ths ; built in the United States in 1845 ; has •~ just come out of the graving dock, where she has been thoroughly overhanlo, boottopped, and newly sheathed with yellow metal, and is now classed A 1 in red for four venra • had a - a. an Asa AWL. .) 1141.1 4 ileW mast put put in; sh e i s a l arge carrier, and is Val well suited for the Australian or other trades. Lying in Saithouse Dock.—For fur ther particulars, inventories, &c., apply to M. J. WILSON, 6, York-buildings, Liverpool. tths FOR BALE, The Brigantine WILLIAM ; 116 tons register , .: 1 / 4 Built at Prince Ed7ard!! Island in 1851. I 17. 6 , 71 • ~ength, 7r .elggfeet 3 inches ; breadth, 18 feet 3 inehes• deth 11 feet '2 inches. Yost arrived from Newfoundland, trade she has always been employed by the present ovninerw•lach bandy vessel, suited for the coastmg trade ; takes the grouneweslt aid will carry a large cargo on a light draft of water. Lying in King's Dock.—For further particulars apply to Messrs. C. T Bowring & Co., South John-street;' or to TONGE & CO., Brokers for Le Sale of Ships, 1. Rumford-86ft CURRY, KELLOCK, and CO., BROKERS FOR THE SAVE AND PURCHASE OF ');;l'4' SHIPS AND STEAMERS, SHIP VALUERS, AND p•? , , , ,Lgt APPOINTED BRKS TO TE HIGH COU ADMIRALTY, Wa O lme E r- R buildin H gs, Water-streeßT OF MONETARY & COMMERCIAL. SATURDAY EVENING. There is no material change to notice in th e t one of the Cotton Market. Today the sales were 6,000 bales, including 1,500 on speculation and for export, the market closing rather dull, with a declining ten dency. In the Liverpool Share Market to-day Birkenhead has Wawa more firmness, and at the opening an advance upon yesterday's price of 1 per cent. was established. The general market, however, remains in a very stagnant position, and Contango's continue low, except m the case of Lancashire and Yorkshire Stock, which suddenly advanced to Bs. 9d. givers. The transactions to-day included Chester and Bir cad, 76 ; Great Western, 59 to 584; Lancashire a n •nd Yorkshire ' 941 ; London and North-western, ' 3 l ; Midland, 104 ; North-eastern, 91 • Grand T lll,ll-1K of of Canada, 8 9-16 ; North and South *ales; 8-7 1 . 13,; 1 „:"..!• arrements entrusted to Messrs. Thomson '"c" . and C og for the new 3 per cent. Russian Loan , ef £12,0 00 wide MO, have now been completed, and it is Monday. ood that the prospectus will be published on operati on,ov e?nfidenee is 'felt in the success of the credit in all i nc to the favourable position.of Russian Loan of 4 5,000 ()markets of Europe. As the Indian absorption of „,' 13° will shortly follow, a considerable -win, • have the effe c t ot will be experienced, which may the terms of di g „ZParting increased firmness to both cases may b e svr , e although the instalments in months. 'Even if th e u r over a period of several advanced or 1 p e „ ei T t i? l , l um should be ultimately -respect, therefore regards'cOMlllercial affair s , v ,rovei . the result, as injurious, and the future in this with the slightest uneasiness. r o e ; not regarded inquiry for money has abated, butt —e moment the althoug•li the minimum remain s t the quotations, fiem t inue • a 21 i per cent., con- The Marret for the Public Funds and Securit to -day has been dul l, and p rices have declined b Iles per cent.. Consols closed at 95 to 95 i for mon ey an d 95 9 to 951 for the account. Th e ey, vy gees closed at 95,1 to 951 ; Exchequer Bills 2 3 to 27 ee s The London Railway 'Share Market was vdull to-day, and in some instances prices have declined about I to Q per cent., while others have shown about TO SUBSCRIBERS. Subscribers to the NORTHERN DAILY TIMES, who have not had their copies delivered as usual, are requested 'by" the ; New Proprietary to furnish their names (and addresg to which the paper is to be sent) to 13, S OUTH J OHN - STREE T, in order that they may be regularly supplied us before. Apply to 1 a similar improvement . Caledonians have advanced Ito 82i. Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee to 26g. London and Blackwall to 652. North Western to 932 94. South Eastern to 74 and 742 ; and South Devon to 01. Great Northerns have declined to 1001 1011. great Westerns to 59. Loudon and Brighton to 1092. South Western to 93. , Midland to 10413 and North Eastern, Berwrg}c to 91. The Foreign and Colonial Lines show further d e pyess i ioT Lombardo-Venetian Old Shares are dealt in at 49 g , %1I thc New at 101. E as t Indian have declined to -• ; , .. 11. rpouirm A 4 t o 97 : 1; and Grand 99 99k. Great Trunk of Canada to 341 341. The Bank of France return for the past monL; exhibits some favourable alterations, fully warrant ing the late reduction of the minimum from 4 to 32 per cent. There has been a considerable increase in the bullion, and an important falling off in the bills discounted, a nd in the advance on stocks and i s a h r a g z Messrs. Edward and Alfred Prior, who ax, - . engaged in the coal trade in connexion with the Eastern Counties, and have depots on most of the stationsment T on that amount tsy o s u te n m t of their liabilities of railways, havehilis h stopped as paynot transpired, but it is believed to be rather consider able. At the special meeting of the Peel River Land and Mineral Company, held to-day, resolutions were passed for consolidating the paid-up shares into stock, and making other changes in the present regulations, which being the only business the meeting adjourned. LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE. LONDON, Saturday Evening. Consols closed steady at 958. Shares inactive, closing shade firmer than the opening rates, although the quotatio] are very nominal. French and Canadian dull. THE FUNDS.-( ,OSING PRICES Consols Money . . 95 Bank Stock , Account .95 Exchequer Bills. 23 26 Three per Cents. SHARES Lanc. & York .. 941 L. and N. W... 934 4 L. and S. W. .. 93 - Leeds Northern. 442 Man.Sheff.&Lin. 351 E Midland Stock ..1041 North British .. 571 4 N. Staffordshire. S. E. and Dover. 731 41 York,New&Ber. 901 ,1 York &N. Mid. 724 3 CHANGE AUGUST 13 RAILWAY Amb. Not. & E.J. Caledonians . 82, Dutch Rhenish.. Eastern Counties 561 East Lancashire. 94 95 Edinbgh. & Glas. 73 4 Great Northern-1001 1014 A. 82 83 591 14 1 q Gieat Western V. of C Gd.Tk. of Canada 84 Gt. S. 'and W. . . 106 108 LIVERPOOL STOCK E) ng prices on Saturday : North Staffordsh. 4, xd N. E. Ber. c. Stck 88-Ixds9 York capital Stock 71 xd 711 E. L. Stock .... 941 951 Leeds Stock . . 431 xd 43a G. N. Stock .. . . 100 102 S. Eastern .. •221 22 6-16 Great Westerns 571 xd 581 ; Dutch Rhenish .... 5/ 50 Lan. and York. . ..95 951 Gt. Luxem. 61 xd 6a Lon. & Nor. West.. 931 94 G. T. Canada _. . 8 8-§- s „ ,i-shares . 1 5-16 lid G.W.Canada .. . : 141 144, M. S. and Lincoln 351 36 „ new shares 6 51d "Midland Stock ..1044 1044 Lomb.-Venetian 21p Nor. British Stock 57 57-4 „ new shares 21- 28p The following were the closi Ches. & B'head Caledonia Stock 76 761 82 821 LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET AUGUST 13 The Cotton Market continues very inanimate, and with plentiful supplies, prices tend to favour buyers. The sales including 40 Pernambuco, 91d.; 350 Egyptian, 8441. to 81d.; 500 Surat, 6d. to old, are reported 6,000 bales, of which 1,500 are on speculation and for export. -,-*---- HOW THE PEACE AFFECTS COMMERCE IN NEW YORK. The late peace is popular or unpopular with commercial men as they happen to be interested in the continuance of war on one side, or in the conclusion of peace on the other. When the war was commenced there was one class o merchants who supposed that it would have a duration o several months, if not of a year or so, and that there was possibility of its becoming general over Europe. Hem they speculated largely in those articles usually advance in val lv q.ltpetrP —ue by the advent of war, such as sa. , nas Mores, rice, flour, certain kinds of provisions, rags, &c and some assorted cargoes, composed chiefly of coal, flou and tobacco, were sent on ventures to. Marseilles and Gehot It is plain, therefore, that that class of merchants woul ndemn ft - - 'ts rest ,tion, cou, .he peace ; because ooral oy rectum, the price of saltpetre and other articles enhanced by th war, will result in heavy losses, ending in a revulsion, so fa as they are concerned. There is another class of merchants whose movements in the regular paths of trade were not departed from on the ccurrence of war, including those who held on to cotton during the depression, with shipowners and others. These are highly gratified at the return of peace, and have strong faith in its continuance for two or three years to come at least. Those who sold out cotton during the war at heavy losses, heap abuse on the French Emperor for having com menced it, while those who purchased it at low prices and held on to the conclusion of peace, praise him for having made it. In spite of the war and individual losses sustained here he more .dens, t ton year a 1858-59 (ending Ist of September next) will prove one of the most prosperous and - remarkable in the history of the country. The crop, estimated at 3,700,000 bales, is the largest ever grown in the United States, and estimated at the average value of about $5O per bale, it amounts to the enormous sum of $185,000,000. The crop, so far, has been distributed as follows : Estimated crop, 3,700,000 bales. Quantity exported to July 25 : To Great B Bales. Value. To France ritain 1,935,000 $96,750,000 424,000 21,200,000 To other foreign ports Stock on hand 171,000 8,550,000 Taken by American manufacturers 594,000 29,700,000 To be received to Ist September 39,000 1,950,000 `Total 3,700,000 $185,000,000 Some suppose that the present growing crop of 1859-60 may reach four million bales, or three hundred thousand in i i s t e d w r il o world excess of the present crop. If so, a tw nd oat t o he co c m iv be e o c u o l ns d umkeeepdaat at remunerative fora ner ati y v e e ar pr lr ces. Somebelieve, how ever, that the present supply: of labour devoted to the culture of cotton will not be able to carry the yield'up to four million bales, and few or none consider that the growth can be pushed-much, if any, above that amount for some time to come, without some augmentation in it beyond the ordinary ratio of increase. There is another class of merchants discontented with the peace,. and these are the importers and dealers in rags and paper. On the advent of the tv ar , importers calculated on an advance, owing to the blockade of the Austtian ports of the Adriatic ; and many of them held their stocks for higher prices. Papermakers and dealers were also looking for higher prices from the . scarcity of rags. The advent of peace has, of course, upset their calculations, and they, too, have reason to condemn it. Rags and paper now pro mise to be eheayer than ever, as the supply of the former will be largely increased from the battlefields of Montebello, Magenta, and Solferino. Bullets and bayonets make sad work with both whole skins and whole clothes. After the conclusion of peace with Russia, immense quantities of rags were gathered in the Crimea and sent to market, where they r p me r a o t c d hh u e ct trackse h d e asecaoonpfsoitrdhteser of fbwltoeh that atetecel country grand n u e nt i r n y p a r in armies e t s e . 1 Th e ra g s gath e re d will prices so. that one good effect among o th ers g r d i o n w t c! i n t : g e d y o u u w t e of the peace will be a larmer supply andcheaper • „ paper, an impor tant element in the progress of modern ci at va s • York Herald. lon.—New TO CORRESPONDENT'S We should be glad to hear from "Tim . 13ebbin," as proposed We must respectfully decline W. D.. 5.; as the matters be refers to arc scarcely fit subjects for criticism by the secular press. 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On the. question of the European Congress, the Ministry are not very explicit. " Her Majesty," so runs the speech, "has not received the information necessary to decide whether Her Majesty may think fit to take part in any such negociations." Some allusion is made to the state of affairs between England and China, and our foreign relations gene rally, and Her Majesty congratulates the country on the complete restoration of tranquillity in India. The Africa arrived here on Saturday night with four days' later news from the United tates. Politi cal affairs generally were very quiet, with the ex ception of some excitement in Albany, consequent upon the meeting of delegates from all parts of the State of New York in connection with the Demo cratic ticket.. At Baltimore there had been a riot on the election of some municipal authorities ; the ballot boxes were smashed to pieces, piktols were freely used, and the city was the scene of riot and bloodshed during the whole of the day—the 2nd of August. The Indians were becoming very trouble some in Nebraska, Texas, &c., &c. The sudden peace in Europe would seem to have caused some slight uneasiness in commercial circles in New York. A late paper, in discussing the bearings of the question, concludes as follows :—" It will be seen from this brief history that the sudden peace in Europe, together with the vast importations and the misgovernment of our banking institutions, will probably result in a state of general perturbation, which, unless it is managed with great skill and delicacy, will lead to another revulsion, which may shake the commercial and financial affairs of the whole country, and ruin a few rotten concerns. Congress should enact a general bankrupt law at the very next session, and prevent such perturbations in future." _ The screw:steamer Imperador arrived here on Saturday, with a month's later news from the Cape of Good Hope. Cape Town advices are to the sth of July. The newspapers were loudly complaining at the way in which the Colonial Parliament was man aging its business ; not one important measure had passed during the whole of the session, then 131 days, and every Ministerial bill of any consequence had been rejected. A dissolution was looked upon as being most probable. From the Continent, this morning, there are seve ral matters of interest worthy of perusal. It is stated that the second Austrian Plenipotentiary has left Zurich for Vienna The Paris asserts that the resh instructions correspondence of the Daily New Conference has come to a dead lock • The Ministerial journals of Vienna insist in very stroll. , terms on the stipulation of Villafranea being carried out at Paris. There are symptoms that Louis Napoleon is annoyed at the conduct of the court of Vienna, and recent articles in the journals in favour of Kossuth and. Garibaldi are attributed to this feeling. An other thing; , the grand military spectacle which was lately prohibited out of compliance to Austria, has been permitted to re-appear. The Paris correspondence of our London contem poraries records the preparations which are being made in that city for the military fetes, which will be on a large scale. As a further memorial of the Italian campaign, the Moniteur contains a decree for the striking of a commemorative medal. It is to be feared that the King of Prussia ap proaches his end. A Berlin telegram informs us that his Majesty was insensible on Thursday, and that the Prince and Princess of Prussia, had arrived. Some slight disturbances at Milan would seem tc indicate that that city is not in a very settled state. Indeed the state of feeling in northern Italy has become exceedingly feverish. Riots have taken place at Milan itself, and at some large mills near that city the workmen have struck work and destroyed the machinery. Persons, designated as agents of M. Maz zini, have been arrested at Bolo; na, where a con stituent assembly is con vo k e d. With news like this we cannot wonder at the announcement of the de parture of the French troops having suddenly been stayed. The special committee appointed to inquire into the packet and telegraph contract system have issued their report. The inquiry was chiefly, however, in connection with, or relation to, the Dover contracts. The committee report that on two occasions Messrs. Jenking's and Churchward's contract for conveying the mails from Dover to Calais and . Ostend was extended Without due inquiry or consideration for the public interest ; but while they , note the fact that Mr. Chltrchward, while the extension of his contract was under consideration, volunteered his support to Captain Ca r negie, who was at that time requested to contest Dover, they acquit the Admiralty and the Treasury, of any charge of having been influenced in granting the renewal of the con tract by any corrupt or political motive. They, howeier, submit the question whether Mr. Church ward, "in having resorted to corrupt expedients, affecting injuriously the character of the representa tion of the people - in Parliament, has not rendered it impossible for the House of Commons, . with due regard to its• honour and dignity, to vote the sums of money necessary to fulfil the agreement to extend Mr. Churchward's contract from the 20th of June, 1863, to the 26th of April, 1870." The committee abstain; in the present incomplete state of their inquiry respecting .the general management of the postal packet ' service, from 'offering any opinion on the subject, "beyond the expression of a, desire that the important matters referred for their investigation may be again brought under the notice of a commit tee at the earliest oppoitunity.". An. address has been voted by the ,non-electors of Huddersfield to Mr. E. A. Leatham, M.P., on the occasion of the termination of the inquiry before an election committee of the-House of Commons. Mr. Lea thain was unseated for bribery and corruption. At the assizes, on Saturday, John Case, charged with forgery at,Warrington, was acquitted on the ground of insanity. --.4.--- "A MAN that is busy and inquisitive," says Lord BACON, "is commonly envious ; for to know much "of other men's matters cannot be, because all that ado may concern his own estate; therefore it must needs be that he taketh a kind of play-pleasure in " that mindeth but his own business find much matter " for envy ; for envy is a gadding passion, and walketh " the streets, awl doth not keep at home : non est " euriosus idem sit malevolus.' " And how applicable are such words of wisdom as these to the case of accusation in our Town Coun cil a few days since, to which, on a previous occasion, we have referred, where it was so forcibly shown, that not only is the busy body an envious body, but that one can scarcely meddlesome without, at the same time. ueing male- volent. Por without wishing to inanige in anything offensive to the honourable 'Councillor who came forward to charge 4, most respectable and eminent fellow-citizen with having sought to injure the town, we are unable to characterise such a-charge in any milder terms, to be truthful, than those of ill- nature, if not of malignancy. Had there even been ground of mere suspicion, that Mr. CHARLES TURNER had acted in a spirit of hoStility to the interests of the town, it would have been bad enough, without some colourable evidence, to have brought such an accusa- tion against one in his responsible position. But, when not only was there an absence of all ground of suspicion, but everything to show that had he, and those with whom he was acting officially and by authority, not been interfered with by Messrs JEFFERY and ROBERTSON GLADSTONE, who had really nothing more to do with the matter than - any other private citizen had, tke town would have got compensation for the dues which were under consi deration, to the amount of two millions sterling. So that, by the officious interference of those gentlemen, the town has actually lost half a million of money We can realise, we say, some such reflections af )314t we know what the Conservatives did ihnv We kno w thai when they came a tiieti sense., resolve:l to leave their vilidiroation to the sure results of time and direilinsioace. They preseri , ed silence when silence was their truest dignity; and con- temned the slanders of their opponents, when there would have been disgrace in acknowledging the necessity for denying them. It is needless to re capitulate how signally, how superabundantly, the event has justified their discretion. There was one thing poetic justice demanded over and above the mere refutation of the enemy's charges, namely, a sharp retribution for the superfluous and wanton arrogance of their own pre- They had covered themselves with a„ false splendour. Truth woifid not have been satis fied, had they not been covered with a just and real shame tensions They would not be content with a doubtful reputation, so history has again stripped them of the fictitious character they had assumed, and they stand naked before England. Not only have Conservatives been proved not to be the bribers, but they them- selves proved guilty beyond the utmost range of ordinary calculation or ordinary suspicion. startling - picture . of contrast which they drew three months ago by the force of imagination, may indeed stand as to its general aspect, only the position of the labels over the figures—purity, corruption—must With this material alteration too, the looking upon the fortunes of others ; neither can he " voice. We ought, no doubt, to be very proud and declare, that they - would infinitely rather be the " indignant. It all seems very foreign to our way of ousted from Hull than the legally confirmed in the "judging things, and our way of doing things. But purchased seats of Huddersfield and Preston. " Brutus says so, and Brutus is,' that is, pretends to " be, 'an honourable man." WE are glad to find that the militia is to be embodied in some way or other, both as a fountain from wial the army may be 'fed and our general national de- TL. t4overnment, however, wil l only do it piece-meal. The European political at mosphere, they tell us, is tranquil. France is dis" arming, Sardinia is contented, and even Austria rejoices at having been worsted; GARIBALDI is loyal to VICTOR EMMANUEL, and MAZZINI'S pen is only 3 little bye-play, which gives life to present stagnation fences establighpd —so Lord J. RUSSELL rand Lord PALMERSTON fiSer. We are the more inclined to accept Lord STRATFORD DE REDCLIFFE'S premonitions gathered from the history of the last few months It is impossible to say how long this calm may continue, if it be not the prelude . and lull before a violent storm. As a national means of defence, the militia is unquestionably the most effective and constutional force to which we should look. We should have been glad to have seen ill this " Militia Laws Amendment Bill" that the ancient and lawful custom of the ballot was to be resorted to, since in this country :we have no conscriptioth lire or maritime, as in other continental states' We believe that country it will never be tolerated in thill A high bounty was offered to induce recruits into our militia regiments, the standard Of height had been lowered, and still our corps were very incomplete ; and the men who had enlisted before this higher rate of bounty was given, Wer e disgusted and discontented. This alteration, like 1130. 4 others made upon the broad basis of ultra-Libei•al ciples, is very fine in theory. and very plausible, but in practice most suicidal and damaging observed by a noble lord of great diplomatic expe— rience, we may be told that the political atmosphhere is at present all serene, but who can tell what , g a dal As has bees may bring forth." We hare seen waged a sang'-n" nary war and a peace concluded in the brief space of a Parliamentary Session. May not with equal facility, the Continent, during the recess, be age plunged in war ? We are at present, in our opinion,sur rounded by uncertainty,and much gloom hangs o v er the horizon. We ought therefore to be prepared for any contingency. We may find it difficult a second time to preserve that neutrality, which we have hitherto done. There ought not to be any difficulty in raising a good militia force in this country, if proper machi- nery were put into operation to produce it. If th° population of Great Britain and Ireland were scanty' there might be some .reasonable apprehension that we cannot compete with the armies of neighbouring' states ; but that is not the case. Scarcely any °f our colonies can be spoken of, without imine" diate reference to the valuable outlets these are for our redundant and over-crowded population• An expedition is sent tinder the command of Captain PALISSER, to explore territory between the Red River' and. the Rocky Mountains, where there is, it appear* a vast bed of coal ; and immediately the reflection is, what an opportunity for our superfluous labour- what a relief to the plethora of the labour market• We do not believe, ourselves, in the theory of a redua- dant population. How are the Array and the NavY to be supplied, if we had a small population, unless we subscribe to the peace-at-any-price , party ? The wise man tells us, " The glory of a King is in the multitude of his people." Yet, notwithstanding this burdensome redundancy, as it is called, we have 3 military force which, when computed, is ridiculously small, and we have a navy, which we cannot pat afloat,, as we have no sailors This recent plan of a maritime volunteer . edipssouricig Well, and lOokg well and imposing on paper; but where are the 30,000 sailors to be found ? During the Cri" mean war, although the bounty was high, and wages £4 per month, it was with great difficulty that 14,000 ineffective men could be got together• It is well known that Sir CHARLES NAPIERfOUTIa great fault with them. It is also well- known bi competent judges, that, owing to the repeal of the Navigation Laws, it would take five or ten veal to make this volunteer scheme operative. It wO only at the beginning of last week, that' a splendil screw transport, the Finisterre, was launched Rochefort. This is one of seventy-two transports, the construction of which was decided upon last year it has an engine of 800 horse-power, and will be able to accommodate 2,000 men besides its crew. Another is to be immediately laid down on the same sliP What does Louis NAPOLEON want with vessels which can transport 144,000 men ? And why, while he hail disarmed his forces, is he so busy with these, and the coast defences of France ? " Verbunz sat sapienh. Let us take care of ourselves. If he is cunning, astute► crafty, and patient, we must be cautious and vigilant , and . be up arid . doing. NOTES OF THE DAY For all that is really satisfactory in the Queen's Speech► the late Ministry must have the credit, not the present' We are not, of course, to doubt the gratifying statement which is given, in her Majesty's' name, of the condition of the country, or of the friendly relations which continue to exist with Foreign Powers. Let us hope that all that fe held forth in this statement will be realised during the recess of Parliament. Her Majesty very properly and feelingly regrets the interruptions to the usual course of business, which have prevented the completimx of importleA matters pointed out to the attention of her Parliament, the beginning of the present year ; and it must not be forgotten that, for the circumstances which occasioned these interruptions, her Majesty's present Ministry are altogether responsible. We can readily believe that "the happine B of her Majesty's people is the object.dearestto her heart ;'' and it must be the earnest prayer of every loyal Subject of her Majesty, that she may be surrounded - by Ministers vill° will assiduously and faithfully labour to enable her to effect so blessed an object. Some -of- the natural fruits of Louis Napoleon's recent devices in Italy are /now, coming to maturity; e r y prFL neatly and fatally in Parma This linperial revolutionary policy has hid the e r ect of stirring up :die - Red Republicans to such a height of fervour that, taking- courage under tho auspicious circumstances of .the moment, they have risen en masse s and declared . their Republic in all its reroCity, -- driving the Piedmontese from the State, and putting the respectable classes to flight under the reign of terror that has thus commenced. Well may the Times now exclaim that " poor doomed Italy has once again missed her oPP°r" AUGUST 15, , 1859 And this is a fact which cannot be too closely and carefully considered, in connection with the whole question out of whiCh ,so mischie . vous and untenable an accusation as that we refer to arose If, there- fore, the matter alluded to were to furnish a case for accusation at all, the positions of the parties re- spectively ought to be completely reversed. There is no ground whatever, as has been so clearly shown, for any accusation of even indifference to the interests of the town, let alone of opposition to them, on the part of Mr. TURNER. The declara tion of the MAYOR, which we may be excused for repeating here, that " he had no doubt Mr. TURNER'S explanation was satisfactory —at all events that it " was so to his own mind, and no doubt would be to " the town,"—a declaration in which the great body of the Council tacitly, yet truly, acquiesced— -were quite.sufficient to exonerate Mr. TURNER, had any exoneration been required under the circumstances We have returned to this subject, though very briefly, because it is really important that our townsmen should have a correct impression of the real merits of a case which was brought forward. with such a flourish of trumpets in the Town Council, and which was evidently got" up for a very paltry political and party purpose. " Vaulting " ambition," as we all know,- " doth o'erleap itself, " and falls on t'other side." Very generally, at least, does it happen so ; and on this occasion the proverb is true to the letter Mr. JEFFERY, even with the aid of the brother Dromio whom he called forth to bolster up the charge, has undoubtedly " fallen on t'- other side," by the vault he ventured to take on this occasion For, we repeat, if any persons are to be accused of having injured the interests of Liverpool, in the matter in question, it is Mr. JEFFERY and Mr. ROBERTSON GLADSTONE ; and this by their officious interference,— by their indulgence of that dangerous busy-bodyism to which it is only too well known they are so fatally addicted. "Busy-bodies and intermeddlers," says another great philosopher, "are. a dangerous sort of people to have to do withal ;" and our townsmen, in this instance undoubtedly, found it to be so. Let us hope, then, that the case will read a valuable lesson to the town ; and that the con viction will be general, among the great body of our townsmen, that it may be said to Liverpool, as APEMANTUS said to TIMON of Athens, "an' thou " hadst hated meddlers sooner, thou shouldst have " loved thyself better now IF Election petitions were a mere game of battledore and shuttlecock, we might be disposed to. congratulate the Liberals that the long and painful singularity of their recent, misfortunes, has been at last diversified. We will admit that they had become deserving of our compassion, if we could at the same time have been compassionate and just. The very silence of their humiliation would have been a claim on our pity, if they had not so confidently provoked inquiry into their pretensions by charging us with their worst vices, by anticipation. Some, of us were fairly stag gered by the audacity with which they contrived to gain credit for their suspicions three months ago. It was said by WARREN HASTINGS on. listening to BURKE'S fierce denunciation of his Indian rule, that the confident eloquence of his accuser .lent such an air of truth to his charges, as to confuse in him his own sense of personal identity, and before the wit C hing spell was off him, to lead him to sit in harsh judgment upon himself as though he were a third person. He was beginning to look from the orator's point of view, and to :think himself, if he really was himself, the villain he was painted. Just, so three months ago, Conservatiyies were beginning to wonder whether they were all that the adversary said. , Whe ther they had mistaken themselves. Whether they had not cast off their skin and come out 'in - a new form. Whether they had not been passing through a new state of being, and suffered a sort of metem- psychosis. Whether in. shor ttheywere themselves or not They were seriouslyarousiug themselves to a process of introspection, and askirig9ne oftinother " Are we really . . so reckless, untruthful, and corrupt ? -Are we really "He unseirupulous and so astute in the choice' of mean; "by which to gain . a temporary lease of pow er an d "place ? Did we really dissolve the House for the . _ "purpose of carrying the constituencies by corruption; "and are there really such fabulous amounts laid by "in . some strong box for the purpose ? Amid this "universal buzz of accusation even our consciences "either falter and stammer, or are frightened o u t of be reversed picture is no longer imaginary, but real. It becomes a true and faithful record, and takes its place in the National Gallery of portraits. But let us add one word .of advice. When the Liberal party shall again go forth on the search for a new character, or for materials to mend the dilapidations in the old one, let them not trust to the vain hope of building it upon the ruin of their neighbour's reputation, or of lowering the standard of virtue by scattering about them the suspicions which mark the evil con- science. It is the knave who seeks to compensate a bad character by bringing everything down to its own level, and blunting the fine edge of the contrast between good and evil To come, however, to the point. Although the Liberals have suffered so much punishment by the wholesale condemnation of their recent elections, and by the just as wholesale acquittal of their slandered , opponents, we are still inexorable enough to deny them the solitary set off of Hull. It is true, that after the unseating of eight Liberals, and, the confirmation of every con tested Conservative return, we are at last called upon to vary the course of the narrative, by announcing the rejection of the Conservative elect of Hull, Mr. HOARE. But in all sincerity, and with the greatest disposition to be candid, we have to protest that the balance is not adjusted by one iota more ; and that the adverse decision on the Hull petition, taken in connection with the details of the petitioners' case, is a secondary triumph to the Conservative cause. For if the Liberals have achieved but one solitary suc cess—if, through all their disastrous exposures, they found consolation in this one hope, that their mis fortunes would be retorted tipon us---fthen we say, and say fearless of contradiction; that the very ques tionable nature of this success, the very doubtful form assumed by the only charges they have been able to substantiate, but render more conspicuous than ever their own bad pre-eminence, and our cora- parative freedom from the arts of corruption How stands the case ? In the first place, the very name of the Conservative candidate is a guarantee ol' propriety and conscientiousness. We should not ex pect to find the name of HOARE sullied with any acts of suspicion, much less with any connivance But next, never were there more pre- at crime cautions taken to prevent the employment of those electioneering tactics which might afford room for accusation or even question. Mr. HOARE knew something of the character 'of the con stituency he was about to solicit, and took especial care to repudiate suspicious alliances. He was even too scrupulous. He openly proposed to the Liberal Committee a mutual arrangement as to the machinery to be employed, that all chance of collusion or deceit might be taken away. Mark the result ! One of Mr. HOARE'S propositions was, that both sides should agree on the number of " runners " to be em ployed. The Liberals refused to be limited. They refused to be put on a par with the scrupulousness of their opponents, or to be cut short in one chance of indirectly influencing the election. Will it be believed that, because the Conservatives offered to employ as few " runners " as thp Liberals might allow, and because they did actually ethploy fewer than their opponents, they have been deprived of their election, -and a victory at least bearing, even in the Committee-room, every appearance of fairness and openness of intention has been turned into a practical defeat ? And does not one thing strike our readers as very probable--that even supposing the Conservatives did employ too many " runners," they were induced to do so by observing their opponents stealing a march upon them, and, by " colourable employment," robbing them of their own voters ? The fact remains that, supposing the Conservatives to have adopted, the doubtful tactics which the Liberals positively refused to repudiate, they were more slack in the use of them than the Liberals themselves. Now, from the very high character of the testimony, which came to the def ence o f M r . HOARE'S return, we are quite disposed to think the whole a trumped-up charge; and that the opposition to which disappoint ment has provoked the Liberals, is far more " colour able " than the conduct of their opponents. At all events, after Hull, men turn with wonder upon those many places where mere technical defects in the proof of agency saved the Libeials from the consequences of the most shamelesrdeeds of political profligacy. We do not wonder to hear them openly to t dicta' a e e , P OAt the