The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-09-02 00:00:00

ceded and have followed the counter revolution,
from July to the present day. The bulletin of
incendiarism is as follows :—" The ancient church
of Gauteguey, in Biscay has been completely
destroyed, and great damage has been done in the
neighbourhood, continuing four days, before it
could be stopped. At Jaen, the Cerro of San Cris-
toval has been entirely destroyed by fire. From
Malaga, we hear of the destruction of the Monte
Pinar, on the Sierra Bermeja."

of moment i~ the news from

Naples ; the city was perfectly tranquil, and there
was not the least probability of any political dis-
turbance. Reports prevailed that the army was by
no means well disposed to King Bomba, but this
was nothing more than the old standing jealousy
towards the Swiss, whose pay is higher than that
of the native troops, whilst they are entrusted

with the fortifications and posts of honour

Our Lisbon advices are to the 25th ult., inclusive.
then perfectly tranquil, and
bread riots

The capital was

throup,

at the country. It is satisfactory to be
port a gradual decrease in cholera. The

King had returned fror

m Cintra to the capital, for

the purpose (

pecting the Santarim railway,
which the engineers say is now fit for traffic as far
as Carregado ; whilst on this excursion, the engine
got disarranged, and the royal party were obliged
to return to Alverca on foot, and leave unfinished
to another occasion the inspection of the line.

been at Leeds

ive deemed it their
luty to present his lordship with a splendid sword,
and which the donors intend to commemorate the
events of his military life in the Crimean war,
and particularly that great incident which
has rendered " Balaklava" a password in the
soldier's mouth. On receiving the sword, Lord
Cardigan delivered a lengthened speech, in the
course of which he referred to the battle of Bala-
clava, for the purpose, as he said, of correcting one
or two fallacies which many still entertained with
regard to the duties of a General of Cavalry leading
the brigade into action, and to clear himself of
imputations which certain parties had cast upon
his honour and courage as a British soldier.

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Our news from the sister island state that the official
finding of the Court Martial at Nenagh has been
promulgated, and is as follows :—Four men sen-
tenced by court-martial to transportation for life
commuted to 21 years, and two men sentenced to
21 years' transportation commuted to 14 years
each ; two, sentenced to 12 years' transportation'
commuted to four years' penal servitude. One of
the prisoners tried was found " not guilty." The
sentence of death passed upon Patrick Burns'
North Tipperary Militia, by Judge Moore, at last
Nenagh Assizes, for the murder of a soldier of

the 41st Regiment, has been commuted to trans_
portation for life. The five men of the North
Tipperary Militia who were sentenced at Nenagh
Assizes to 15 years' transportation each have had
their sentences commuted to 10 years' penal servi-
tude.

It appears that the police have not given up all
hopes of capturing James Sadleir, as he is supposed
to be still lurking in the shades of Coolnamuck. A
few days ago the chase was renewed in that quarter
by a party of fifteen constables, but their search
was ineffectual. The contest for the earldom of
Shrewsbury is attracting much attention,and pro-
mises to be a profitable harvest to the gentlemen of
the long robe in Ireland as well as England. The
Roman Catholic organs in Dublin are beginning to
find fault with Dr. Cullen's policy, and attribute
the failure of his pet scheme—the establishment
of an exclusively Catholic University—to the
Archbishop's manifest inclination to model the
government of his Church after the fashion of his
immediate predecessor in the diocese of Dublin.
The Tablet of Saturday last writes strongly on this

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BUCHANAN for the Court of St. James's, and

" FREMONT for American and the Union of the
" States," appears to be the watchword of the Great
Republic. The protracted civil war in Kansas,
and the determined stand made by the Abolition-
ists up to the present moment, render all thoughts
of a compromise hopeless. The time has, in truth,
arrived, when the party which Mr. BUCHANAN
leads must give place to those who are pre-
pared to encounter all the real and imaginary
risks of Negro emancipation. The discussion
which now occupies the mind of every

Free Seiler, and the preservation of the mate
rial interests of the free labourers, who look
upon slavery as a fatal barrier to both their social
and political progress, cannot be longer evaded or
extenuated. The energy and united force of the
Free States will leave no means untried to sustain
their advanced guard in the South and West, and
as population is the real basis of representation
with them, that their numbers, whether in a revo-
lution or an election, will carry the cause they
have taken up, cannot be questioned.
Colonel FREMONT has been selected as the leader
of the Free Soilers, and the abolition chief of the
New World. Should his efforts to reach the
Presidental Chair be frustrated—of which there
does not appear to be the remotest chance—he
will be no less formidable as the leader of an oppo-
sition, which carries with. it the moral opinion of the
age. There is not a party in the States to pit against
the abolition cause, unless that which confides
in BUCHANAN. The Southerners do not recognise
in that statesman a perfectly unbiassed pro slaver,
but knowing his moderation; and his love of, and
success in, great compromises, they are glad to
accept a modified enemy rather than an open and
thorough " go-a-head" foe. The monster curse of
the West having arrived at this critical juncture,
the FREMONT men will increase their ardour, if riot
the numerical strength of the Free State bellige-

rents now n arms. Any very strenuous opposition
on the part of BUCHANAN and his Southern sup-
porters will lead to this disastrous result ; and such
a certainty may deter a man of BUCHANAN'S mode-
ration from continuing a contest which would
inevitably lead to so terrible a consummation.
We have little reason to feel any concern about
these matters in a political sense. Our natural
instincts, and earliest teaching, lead us to desire
the immediate and unqualified release of the
African race from their bondage, but we have
equally irresistible commercial considerations to
weigh carefully.

The change which we see approaching so
rapidly in the States will cut off, come when it
may, fully one-third of our supply of cotton. There
are many who say that the immediate effect of
that change would be more disastrous, but we have
not heard any one assert that it would be less so.
It would, therefore, have as marked an effect on
our cotton market and the manufacturing interests,
as a sudden outburst of popular violence in this
country would have on the Stock Exchange. We
are constrained to take more than ordinary notice,
consequently, of a movement which is so closely
interwoven with one of our leading branches
of trade. We can lend no aid to the
cause of emancipation, beyond wishing it a speedy
and signal victory ; but we can help ourselves,
and guard against that serious revulsion which