The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-10-05 00:00:00

" Fever and drinking fill the ranged-sehools,
multitudes in rags whom the schools cannot hold
the fever—and this is far more easily done

ragged-school
infants, and then strikes. with .th

arrest the fever

fathers and mothers, leaving the
to the wide world ; and fewer r
there will be fewer rags in them.

hich f

boys and girls of the family
ragged-schools will do, and

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" Public parks and cheap excursions, too ; fresh lungs to
London and Manchester. Admirable things! but why not
fresh air also at home? Here is society labouring under a
low state of health, going, in fact, into a cesspool-fever,
or leprosy of the sewer, and you offer it a pair of dumb-bells !
Surely the first thing is to empty the cesspool, cure the
fever, and then offer the recreation and the exercise ?

" Would the promoters of all our benevolent efforts only
see how entirely this simple question el'

below all their *schemes, and agree to combine

cut ho:

for its solution, how rapidly would society pro,

gress m every

rood work.
"To those, too, who are looking anxiously towards the
inevitable extension of the franchise, we recommend the
earnest advocaoy of the subject of public health:

"There is no better outl;,-ard evidence of a man's fitness
to exercise any franchise than the possession of a clean,
healthy, well-ordered home. Joined with avera

sense aiid intelligence, what better could be di
tens of thousands of our householders

common

houses, instead of a proof of their fitness for exercising the
franchise, are the best possible evidence of their unfitness
for that or any other trust."

These remarks speak for thethselves
quire no comment from us. We hope sincerely
that the seasonable hints therein thrown out,
may be effectual in the proper quarter, and, thats
by-and-by, our sanitary system will cease to
.he a
disgrace to us as men ; and a damning stain upon
our boasted civilization. We should apologize for
the lengthy extract we have made, did not the
subject of public health. at this moment engross
so deeply the mind of the. country.

and rc

LIVERPOOL MARKETS-

TUISSDAI

( Written expressly for the Northern Daily Times.)

COTTON—The sales to day are from '5,000 to 6,000 bales,
1,000 of which have been taken on speculation. The sales
include 20 Pernams and Marrahams ;70 Bahias 6ad ;30
Egyptian 7d; 1100, Surat, 21d. to 4g-d. The market closes
heavily with a downivard tendency. Compared with Friday's
rates, prices of all kinds are somewhat irregular, but can hardly
be quoted lower. This change of tone arises from the announce-
ment that war is decided upon by Turkey.
SUGAR—The market is without improvement, and the sales
to-day are almost unimportant, being confined to 800 bags Ben-
gal at 275. to 275. 6d,, for very low Dates, to 295. 6d. per cwt.
In MOLASSES no further sales have taken place, neither has
anything occurred in Rum. _

COFFEE.—The piiblic sales of Jamaica went off quietly to-
day, and of 200 tierces brought forward about 130 found buy-
ers at 465. for ordinary, to 101 s. 6d. fine middling, up to 118 s
for fine mountain ; 650 bags Para Cocoa are reported at 28s.
per cwt.

RICE—The business comprises 700 ba_ _
I4s. 9d; and 3,500 bags Aracan at I Is. 6d. per cwt

al at Ils. 9d.

JUTE-500 bales brought forward to•day, with all faults, re-
alised £l7 to £23 10s.; and 400 bundles and bales Bombay
Hemp £2O to £2l per ton.
TsA—There has been rather more enquiry for common
Congou at 11d, per lb.; in other descriptions there is no change
to report.

Kings—Nothing of moment took place to-day, at auction
only a few damaged horse being sold,

iaLLow continues firm at 595.
Of the LARD offered to-day about 50 tierces sold at 51s. per

cwt. for sour

LINSEED-2,100 bags Bombay are reported at .525. per qr.,
part being for arrival. And 100 bags Sumatra black PEPPER
at cad. per lb.
CORN—The equinoctial gales which prevailed last week,
have been extremely boisterous hero since Friday, and with
excessively heavy rains at the time, any further efforts to secure
the small remnant of the harvest around us has been imprati-
cable. Actuated by this and the multifarious causes, affecting
the Corn trade of late, a further considerable rise in the
value of every description of Grain and Flour was established
in all the provincial markets in this country, held up to the
end of last week, with a lively and increasing business in all
its departments. Stimulated by the active proeeedings on this
side the water, the Irish markets in general assumed an equal
degree of animation during the greater part of the week, the
prices of all kinds of Breadstuffs, both native and foreign,
improving in a corresponding ratio ; the demand, however,
which was principally speculative, subsided afterwards, and in
several of the leading markets part of the advance was lost as
the week closed ; whilst during the intervening period from.
Friday's market to this date, the trade in Brunswick-stect
has been altogether quiet, at the general currency of Tuesday
last .Exclusive of a fair quantity of Oatmeal, the receipts of
English and Irish produce into this port during the past week
still form a scanty supply; those of Grain fresh in from abroad
are also but moderate, including merely, of Wheat, chiefly
from;the American States, and partly from Canada and the
Baltic, 8448 qrs. of Indian Corn, 1600 qrs. from lbraila, and
of Beans, 2635 qrs. from Egypt ; whereas of Flour the im-
port is rather liberal, being 22,782 barrels of States and
Canadian, and of Spanish 7102 sacks. The exports of the
week are fair in amount; of these marked foreign the Wheat is
to Havre, the Oats and Flour is to Australia. The calmer
tone of the London market yesterday, caused our trade this
morning to open with much less animation than we have
experienced of late, and the tendency of foreign Wheat was
evidently towards depression ; but on the receipt of telegraphic
news stating the actual declaration of war by Turkey, the
demand revived, and a fair business was done, at prices how-
ever, scarcely equal to those of this daweek. The farmers
brought forward a large show of new Wheat to-day, quality
good, condition rather damp; and as much as 10s. was obtained
for the best white, and 9s. 4d. to 9s. 6d. per 701bs. for the
general run of red. For Flour we reduce our quotations in
some instances 6d. per barrel, and the sales are not extensive
to-day. Barley commands very full prices ; Beans and Oats
are further advanced, and considerably higher rates are re-
quired for the trifling quantity of Peas remaining on hand.
Oatmeal was in moderate request at the improvement of
Friday.

Cotnnurtiat ~aio.

FRIDAY.

On Friday, the 7th instant, at Twelve, At the Broker's
Office, Colonial Buildings, 46, Dale-street,
A quantity of CHINESE CURIOSITIES,
VASES, &c.
Apply to -BUSHBY & Co., Brokers.

On Friday next, the 7th instant, at Half-past One, at the
Broker's Office, 14, Brunswick-street,
about 90 Tons prime American thin oblong
LINSEED CARES, -
In 55 Casks, 161 Barrels and 599 bags, just arrived in the
river, per Johann Lange, from New York.
ROBERT PROCTER, Broker.

On Friday, 7th inst., at One, at the Brokers' Sale Room,
Derby Buildings, Fenwiok Street. •
THE MALTESE BRIG " TIGRE,"
229 Tons per register. Built at Malta, in 1844,
it&,-,is copper fastened, and was sheathed with heavy
- • --- copper in April, of this Year, when £BOO was
expended on her in repairs. The Vessel will be sold as she
now lies in the Queen's Dock Basin, at this Port, with all her
stores, and everything belonging to her. For Inventories,
and further particulars,
Apply to

TONGE, CURRY & CO.

Brokers,

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PERSONS WANTING SERVANTS,
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TVEDNESDAY,

OCTOBER 5, 1853

WE announced in our impression of yesterday

on the authority of a telegraphic dispatch received

in London, the probable pacific settlement of the
Eastern question. That intelligence, however,
has been partially superseded by a report which
reached the metropolis yesterday morning, to the

effect, that the SULTAN had positively signed a de-
claration of war against Russia—being advised
thereto by the Grand Council of the Turkish em-

pire, who had met for consultation on the 26th

ultimo. It has further been affirmed, that actual

hostilities have already commenced ; and also that

Prince Gortschakoff was moving troops towards

the Danube with the view of attacking a Turkish

position at Roustchouk. We now publish, in ex-
tenso, all the particulars received up to the moment
of our going to press, from which it will be learnt,

that the ultimate issue is involyed in as much doubt

and the question itself in as much intricacy, as

After bestowing upon the extensive in formation

received the fullest and completest consideration,

it appears to us quite as probable that the peace of

Europe may still be preserved, as that the ru

moured declaration of war will be carried into

effect

THE appearance of an American fleet in the
Mediterranean is a source of no small concern
to the eagles of Russia and the vultures of Austria.
The first sight of Columbus on the coast of Ame-
rica could scarcely have caused more alarm, anxiety,
the curiosity, among the descendants of the scat-
tered Mogul Tartars, whom the chivalrous Navi-
gator found on the shores of the NEW WORLD.
Fortunately there is nothing about the sailor-sons
of America which bespeaks the danger of a feast, a
la Cannibale, in which the good people in the ports
of the Mediterranean are to supply the head or
foot dishes. The fear alluded to is of a different
character, and is confined to a rapid flood of doubts
and anxieties, which show themselves in a torrent
of queries and expressions, such as, " When did
they come ?" " What do they want ?" " Who is that
gentleman in the cocked hat?" " What heroes they
look !" " One would scarcely take them for demo-
crats—vulgar republicans, they look like the repre-
sentatives of a great nation." These are the varied
thoughts and sayings of the good people of Smyrna,
Alexandria, and La Spezzia, who now have an op-
portunity of viewing one of the finest naval arma-
ments in the world—the United States fleet.

There is a certain party in England quite
amazed to find that the United States have a fleet
at all, and doubly so, at the thoughts of the
fact, that her fleet, at present congregated at
Smyrna, is larger than that of either England or
France. But we are by no means at a loss to com-
prehend the significance of its appearance, or the
possible result of its mission, in that highly in-

teresting quarter.
The American statesman sees a compromise exist
ing between constitutional governments and actual
barbarism, which is constantly exposing American
trade, commerce, and citizens, to the annoyances,
and in many cases, outrages, which kindred states
in Europe submit to, and which she, as a tame, con-
senting party to the compromise, is also expected
humbly to submit. The recentinsult offered to the
American Flag, and person of Captain INcluAnam,
is a case in point. Austria barricades her coasts,
rivers, and frontiers, against all commercial inter-
course with other nations—she tramples on the
civil and religious liberties of the surrounding
states—she denies labour to her soil, that she may
preserve an army to replenish her treasury by ex-
tortion and plunder—she flogs women; she has
shed more blood on mere political charges, tried
at the drum-head, than all the NERO'S of the earth
and, finally, she abjures all freedom and deifies
slavery, and even enforces it upon the religious
orders of her people.

England holds all these things in abhorrence, and
yet we are congratulated on the maintenance of
" friendly relations " with Austria, as well as other
countries who uphold these despotic MONARCHIES.
Here lies the compromise between CONSTITUTIONAL
Government, barbarism, and tyranny. But as for
an enlightened and great people, such as the Anglo-
Americans, holding any intercourse with such

countries, without in some way giving or receiving
insult, appears almost impossible. Respect be-
tween nations must be based upon a mutual sense
of moral and political right. What sympathy or
respect, then, can we expect the American to show
the Austrian, who willingly submits to be cajoled
out of his freedom, dragooned in his streets, and
made to crouch like a dog on his own hearth ?

There is something painful in beholding such peo-
ple, to say nothing of the repulsiveness one feels at
the cool submission and respect they show to their
oppressors. The power which has so far degraded
and debased the people of both Austria and Rusoa,
the American statesmen may possibly be contem-
plating as the fit object of attack. And, indeed,
when we consider the home, succour, and advance-
-114041t tito Union bestows on the outcasts of fortune

from every land, we .cannot be surprised when we

find her demanding common respect and consider-
ation for her own people in other countries. Again,
it is possible that she is about to suggest a qu9ry
to Europe, and to make it the question of the nine-
teenth century: How long shall America throw
open her Hudson, Mississippi, and St. LaWrence
to the trade, commerce, and manufactures of Eu-
rope, and in return be denied access to the Danube
and Dardanelles, or to any other portion of the
European Empires? If Russ, will be a bear, and
hug the logs of her forests, that is no reason why
America should abandon the platonic philosophy
of her reasoning, and stultify her hopes of inter-
national progression, by becoming a hedge-hog, and
retiring to the Prairies, to enjoy in solitude the
happiness of a mere animal existence.

That her inclinations and interests lie in a dif-
ferent direction, is pretty well known, and whatever
experiments the AMERICAN Government may have
sent their fleet to the Mediterranean to make, we
feel assured that they will execute them in such
a way as to convince our AUTOCRATIC neighbours
that a Democratic Republic can maintain their
rights as a nation quite as well as any despotic
conclave in the world.

Every state has a right to make any laws it
pleases for the observance of its own subjects,
provided that government be constitutional ; but
America questions the right even of a constitutional
government to make laws which prohibit the sub-
jects of other- countries from trading with that
This opinion is very generally held in Ame-
rica, while the national voice denies in toto the
right of irresponsible and despotic governments,
such as those, of Austria and Russia, to make laws
which require huge standing armies to uphold them
even in their own, dominions, and the maintenance of
an equally large force, on the part of other countries,
to protect their subjects from the oppression, cruelty,
and injustice of their operations. There can be no
real civilisation so long as we admit such a right.
, The cowardly TYRANTS of the continent have long
acted on the belief that Washington's anti-war ideas
would secure them from American interference in
the 'affairs of Europe ; but it now seems that they
" reckoned without their host." Still, while they
pass over the admonitions of their PATmoz-father,
they may be induced to act upon his principles,
and lop off a limb or two from the rotten trunk of
conventional Europe That such an 'exploit would
be exceedingly popular in the States, will be seen
by the following extract from the New York Herald:
" Had Captain Ingraham but opened a broadside
on the Austrian corvette in the waters of Smyrna,
the other day, he would have been the next Presi-
dent of the United States." The quiet way in
which the Americans have congregated their fleet
in the Mediterranean is very singular; and the
strict silence that has been observed, respecting
their movements, is equally remarkable, and must
excite considerable surprise in the public mind.

IT appears that the hope we had entertained of
the speedy liberation of Miss CUNNINGHAME from
the prison of Lucca, was both premature and un-
warrantable. At the time we gave expression to
such a hope, it was owing, not to any altered opi-
nion either of the GRAND DUKE or his government,
but simply and solely in consequence of the
firm and confident language addressed by our
FOREIGN SECRETARY to the Deputation of the Pro-
testant Alliance, headed by the Earl of SHAFTES-
BURY, that waited upon him in Miss CUNNING-
HAME'S behalf. It would seem, however, that all
the diplomatic intervention employed in this case
has been productive of no favourable result;. and
that the unfortunate victim of Tuscan despotisth
has the gloomy prospect before her of a long and
miserable incarceration, which, should the existing
law be carried out in its entirety, will extend to
a period of from five to ten years !
We deeply regret that Miss CUNNINGHAME did
not exercise more prudence and caution when she
set her foot upon foreign ground. Neither the
inexorability of the GRAND DUKE'S character, nor
the intolerance of the Tuscan laws, was a secret
in this country ; and hence it behoved that lady
when she ventured within the jurisdiction of the
one, and became amenable to the other, to act
very circumspectly, lest she should fall, (as un-
happily has been the case) into the clutches of
both.

Much praise is due to Mr. SCARLETT, our Charge
d'Affaires, for the activity and zeal he has dis-
played in this business. But something more
than diplomatic politesse will be required, and
must be demanded. The English nation will not
be lulled into placid indifference so long as an
insignificant GRAND DUKE, or a Brltmmagem Italian
government, thinks fit to incarcerate an English
subject—and that a weak, defenceless WOMAN !
for so slight a breach of its iniquitous and tyran-
nical laws. We would earnestly urge upon those
who value civil and religious liberty, •to exert
themselves without delay in procuring an unmis-
takeable demonstration of public feeling and opi-
nion on this occasion, that vigorous and effectual
steps may thereby be taken in the proper quarter
to free another victim from the ruthless grasp and
iron rule of a miserable, puny, and contemptible
continental DESPOT !

IT is not often, fortunately in 'these days, that
the records of maritime casualties contain details
of so thrilling an interest to the members of a
maritime community, as those of the fearful tragedy
which We transferred into a late impression from
the Friend of China. In the present state of civili-
zation, it is not often, either on land or sea, that
the cunning artifice, or brute force of savages, las
the opportunity or temptation to perpetrate such
deeds of horror. Piracy, as practised in bygone
days by particular races of men, is now almost a
thing unknown, Such efforts as those, for instance,
of Sir James Brook, on the coast and in the rivers
of Borneo, have all but swept away the last traces
of what was once a dreaded scourge to the mercan-
tile enterprize of the whole commercial world.
The inhabitants of islands and wide ranges of sea-
board, to whom ocean robbery was formerly the
sole means of subsistence, and for the purposes of
which they seemed alone to live, have, for the most
part, long since been coerced into a better under-
standing of their own true interests, and, at any
rate, into a subservience to the common require
ments of the world's welfare. A pirate on the
broadway of the ocean is now almost as scarce a
phenomenon as a highwayman on Hounslow Heath,
The black flag no longer waves successful defiance
to standardS • perhaps never lowered before an
enemy in civilized warfare. Whatever fanciful
temptations of glory once wrought on the soul of
a Kidd, a Paul Jones, or other noted corsairs, have
now altogether lost their power ; and the term
piracy- can be suggestive only of a noose from the
yard-arm. But even, as in the every day experienCe
of society, the spirit of unprincipled greedy adven-
ture, unable to find scope in great or shoWy deeds
of nefarious daring, expends itself too often in

actions of meaner, perhaps more revolting atrocity,

so do we sometimes find the usual difficulties and
dangers of life-on' the ocean, horribly diversified
by an outbreak of the resuscitated spirit of piracy.
The evils of piracy, in the usual acceptation