Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-10-06 00:00:00

CLOSING PRICES

Ches. & B'head 771 774 N,Stafford q4d
Caledonian B9 90 N. E. Ber. c: Stek _B9 891
E. Counties . • lll 11i York capital Stck .72 721
E. L. Stock .... Leeds Stock 441 451

G. N. Stock .*. 1011 1027% South Eastern.. 23 231-16
Great Westerns ..63fi 631- Dutch R'nish 41d
Lan. and York ..96'- 961 Gt. Luzern 7l 7:1„
Ln. & Nor. West. 94k 941 G.T.Canda .. 9 9-16 9 Ll-16
, k-shares .. . 1 1-16 1d G.W.Canada :141 141
M. S. and Lincoln 354 35a „ new shares 6i- 61d
Midland Stock.. 105 k 1051 Lomb.-Venetian .. 2 21p
N. British St. . 594 60 „ new shares

LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE.
LONDON, Wednesday Evening.

The English Stock Market has to-day main-
tained a very firm aspect, and a fair amount of
business was done at prices well supported from

yesterday's rates. Consols opened at the best
quotations of yesterday, and at mi. r--

.1. tl.,_y

touched 95:4 96 ; this,, however, was not sustained,
but the market is still buoyant. The Govern-

The following appeared in a part of our
impression of yesterday :

MONEY MARKET

The Funds improved in the afternoon, and closed at
an advance of nearly I per cent. The rise was caused
chiefly by the state of the Money-Market. The effect
of the American. difaculty and of the uncertainty as to
the results of the Conferences at Zurich is thus counter-
^ted ""'

acteL Although this was the 4th of the month good
bills were done at a fraction below the Bank minimum.
The amount of gold.taken into the Bank was £B,OOO,
making an aggregate of £375,0Q0 since Wednesday.--:
Daily News. .

The Funds opened without Animation this morning,
but there was a more confident -feelink bCfore the close.

The purchases during the day were rather numerous,
and tie San Juan difficulty 4eemed no longer to receive
attention. Some cause for anxiety might have been
found in the report that it seems likely to be the policy
of the Papal Government to precipitate a conflict in the
Romagna, but these were counteracted by good accounts
from the Paris Bourse... -The continued influx of ;gold
. to the Bank likewise neutr.di,,es every adverse consi-
i t. deration.
.India Saap left off 4 to 1:. To-day being the

,
4th of the month, the payments were heavy. The tem-
porary demand for. money has now entirely subsided,
and the best paper can be discounted with ease at 21-
per cent. The Railway Market continues dull, but
well supported. With the present abundance of money,
there is-no disposition to Sell. 'stock. In the .foreign

exchanges, this afternoon, there was a slight decline in
the rate on Hamburg. The Paris letters mention an
increased demand for mono)

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.--Ocronait 5.
The Cotton Market continues without change, and a
fair business has been transacted at old rates. The
iales--including 20 Pernambuco at 9d., 150 Bahia at
71d. to nd:, 300' Egyptian at nel. to, 84d., and 1,000

Surat at 44d. to 51d.:Lare reported B,ooobales, of which
1,500 are on speculation and for export.

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gort4ent 'O'd)intes

TEFTI?SDAY,. OCTOBER 6, 1859

shadow of a name, or a stalking horse of faction ?
Whether, now that the Corn-laws are abolished,
the Christianity of the legislature destroyed, the
sanctity of the marriage tie violated, it is any-
thing more than the ghost of a vanished princi-
ple, which has worked out its spasmodic effort,
and has lost its occupation ?

That the, distinctive work of Liberalism is- :
done, is evidently Lord
.JOHN Rus,sELL's private
opinion ; that is., if we are to assume the sincerity ;
of his last political confession. And we are jus-
tified in asking, what motive can be discerned in
the present political position which he and his
associates assume, except the
,personal advan-
tages to be reaped from the manoeuvres and
involutions of faction; and the keeping- alive
of antagonisms in the State ? What room is
there for an intermediate party between the
defenders and the assailants of the Constitution ?
To raise- what great advocacy from the dust
-where Lord. DERBY and his colleagues were
trampling it, did those busy and anxious in-
triguers fore their disreputable way to office•?
What certain sound was it that the Whig trumi-

pet gave at the last election,. cmd which charmed
so wisely the ears of factions and of mobs ? Was.
this the "great issue" upon which Lord JOHN
RUSSELL staked, his fortunes, or did he not tacitly
give in to the dbmocratic hints, of his supporters,
that the future would inevitably mark out for
England a signal diversion of current in her

constitutional history ? To us, hacked, it has long
been evident,. that the questions at issue among
the real friends of the Constitution are not of
principle but of detail. But we cannot allow
Lord JOHN RUSSELL to subscribe, at this the
eleventh hour,. to so manifest a truth, and appro-
iniate it to himself, without reminding him that,
while details are the accidents of a party and,
perhaps, may Become, through habit and custom,
almost accounted among its chazacteristics, prin-
ciple alone. can. prompt a legitimate party zeal,
or keep aliv-e vigorous distinctions and organiza-
tions.

On the basis of Lord Joan's_ last creed, the
factious move• which turned out Lord DERBY'SMi
nistry, and the present position which it has won
for himself,. is a great imposture: When he now
openly announces his adherence to the first prin-
ciple of Conservatism, expounded. and adopted as.
a rule of action by their leaders, it is pure faction
to declare that the last Reform Bill was unsus-
ceptible of required changes in Committee; or to
propose a vote of want of Confidence in the
political capacity of Conservatism to expand the
powers,of the Constitution. Lord JOHN RUSSELL

offers us a guarantee against democratic changes,
in ord'er that we may allow him free license
to handle our political system; but, before we
cifeit his intentions, it behoves him to explain
why he felt called upon to snatch the latter func-
tion from that political agency which has alone
shown itself ,willing and able to resist the former
danger. If once there is thorough .unanimity
upon the subject of the Constitution in its es-

sential and most characteristic features--if it bo
agreed that the-real and legitimate want of this-
age, as of all ages, is that the Constitution-should
adapt itself to that want by the exertion of its
own internal vigour,—not by the forced impres-
sion of foreign and alien influences,--and only
as and when that want itself inevitably,
suggests and renders it practicable ; then the
gratuitous assumption that the constitutional
party in the State is, by its position, unfitted
to discharge the functions- of Reform, is a
simulated device of faction, and the .plea
of selfishness and egotism. If Lord JOHN
RUSSELL could get rid of his personal and family
motives, he would see that the best way of pro-,
Meting those moderate designs, which he now
pretends to be the only patriotic motive of
reformeis, is by the harmonious action of all
reputable sections of politicians, and the asso-
ciated discountenance of the demOcratic and
envious spirit which seeks the triumph of a class,
and a complete change in our political and social
and religious system. If the spirit of his present
'professions had ruled him when Lord DERBY'S
constitutional Reform demanded his disinterested
consideration, he would have forborne from the
mean and grovelling tactics of faction ; and
where supposed improvements could have been
suggested, would have been disposed to offer not
opposition but counsel. How exactly is all this
seeming caprice an illustration of this wily
tactician's position for the last ten or twenty-
Years ? His innate and educated regard for the
principles of the Constitution, has withheld him,
from wishing success to the wild theories of such
narrow-minded and uninstructed demagogues as
Mr. BRIGHT ; but his political interests and
ambition have dictated to him a position some-
where -intermediate between an ill-disguised
republicanism, and the party of which he
has been the traditional opponent. How
hollow and insincere this position has been,
is manifest from the fact that its maintenance
has given rise to no large political measure ; has
evolved promises followed by continually abor-
tive attempts at performance ; has been a course
of living from hand to- mouth, of personal
intrigue, coquetry, and delays ; has been doubtful
enough to awaken the fears of constitutionalists,
but not sufficiently decided to realise the dreanis
of democrats ; has, in fact, just enabled him to
challenge the services of the one, in order to
destroy the political fortunes of the other, and
himself rise to the official advocacy of a hazy and
uncertain cause. It is quite agreeable, therefore,
with this scheme of Lord JoHN RUSSELL'S poli-
tical life, to find his official, conduct for the
last ten years,
,one long and cunning coquetry
with the question, of
_Parliamentary Reform. It
is quite consistent with the character of the man,.
and with its latest revolution, that he has . inva.