Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-01-21 00:00:00

LONDON PRODUCE MARKET.-JAN. 20.

SUGAR.—The demand has been very limited this week,
but the firmness of holders has sustained prices. Refined
lumps remain quoted at 51s. 6d. to 535.
COFFEE.—The public sales of this article have gone
off irregularly, and there has been a want of activity in
the market, yet we do not reduce general quotations.
TEA.—The trade have bought largely and steadily
this week, and congou, from Is. 7d. to Is. 9d., has sold
at prices slightly in favour of the sellers. No business
done in common congou to give quotations.
RICE.—The demand has been limited, but prices have
been about supported.
Rust has been steady, although the demand has been
limited.

SALTPETRE has advanced about 6d., but the amount
of business done has been small.

SricEs have sold freely at full prices.
COTTON.—About 1,500 bales sold at a shade advance.
In other articles no material alteration.

LONDON TALLOW MARKET.-JAN. 20.

Quietude is still the characteristic of this market.
The subjoined prices are the same as those last quoted

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SATURDAY, .TANUARY 21, 1860.

THE DAY'S NEWS.

Our attention has been called to an article in a
New Zealand paper, which we have copied into
another column, respecting the deceptions that
are apt to be practised on emigrants to that
country. " Our streets," says the account, " swarm
with immigrants who deplore their hard fate,"—
hard it must be, when, instead of getting, as they
hoped to do, forty acres of land promised them,
it is said, by the Provincial Government, they
find even labour so much cheapened as to be un-
able to procure more for a good day's work than
eighteenpence and a dinner,—a miserable sum
indeed in that colony. These emigrants, it ap-
pears, are reduced to such a state that they boldly
demand of the Government work or bread ; and
the worst of it is that " the provincial chest is
empty—the Provincial Government cannot pay
its own expenses." .So says the Auckland paper
from which the article in question extracted

Let us. hope that such an exposure as this will

have a warning effect upon intending emigrants
to that colony.
It is very satisfactory to learn; as we do on
the authority of the Brazilian Minister, that the
report of yellow fever prevailing in all the ports
of Brazil is untrue. According to the assurances
which the Brazilian Minister has received from
the Imperial Government by the last steamer,
the health of these ports was then good.
We have a day's later advices from the United
States by the Glasgow, which touched at Queens-
town yesterday, having left New York on the
Bth instant. We learn that another ballot for

speaker had taken place in the House of Congress

at Washington, but still without any decided
result. Mr. Sherman, the republican candidate,
had 103 votes—six fewer than on the last occasion
of voting, and twelve below the number necessary
to constitute an election. The latest reports from
Washington state that there was still no hope of
a speedy organisation of the House.

The rumour to which we referred yesterday,
with a caution as to its truth, that ,the Pope had
demanded the evacuation of Rome by the French
trobps, has been pronounced absolutely false. This
contradiction comes from the Paris correspondent
of the Morning Post ; and we may conclude that
if the Pope were unwise enough to make•any
such demand, " the eldest son of the Church"
knows his duty better than to think of comply-
ing with the Holy Father's wish. The report
seems to have originated in the fact, that the
Council of Cardinals, although formerly divided
upon the subject, had at last unanimously pro-
tested against the Emperor's views, and accom-
panied that protest, which has reached Paris,
with a resolution that if it did not succeed in
altering the Imperial views, then the French are
to be requested to recall their army from Rome.
But it is not certain that the protest has been
officially presented at the Tuileries. The Papal
Budget has been produced by Cardinal Antonelli,
and exhibits a deficit of 707,597 crowns. The
Pays announces that some detachments of Swiss
soldiers have been attacked by the population of
the Marches. At Macerata, which lies south-west
of Ancona, a sharp contest is spoken of as having
taken place. The rumour of French troops being
sent to maintain order at Ancona is not credited.

We took occasion very recently to doubt the
probability of the confession said to have been
extracted from Austria by our Government that
she was unwilling and unable to run the risk of
another war in Italy, and we now find that the
Vienna official gazette distinctly denies that
Austria expressed any such views. At the same
time we observe that the Ost _Deutsche Post of
of Vienna is of opinion that the only part Austria
has to play for a long time to come is that of re-
signation—" her part is to protest before the
whole world ; but to support that protest with
what material power she still retains, would be a
fatal policy."
The effect of the Emperor's letter, on the tariff,
in the departments is said to have been most
favourable. All the leading provincial papers
express themselves in favour of the measure.
Some of them would stipulate for gradual change,
while others take exception to the removal of all
prohibition. The Gazette de Lyons alone appears
to complain that the wishes of the manufacturers
have not been sufficiently consulted. The Em-
peror's reply to certain appeals on behalf of that
interest, is at once conclusive on the subject, and,
we would add, is also sufficient to set at rest the
idle notion that Mr. Cobden has had anything to
do in converting the Emperor to his commercial
policy. His Majesty is reported to have said :
" The manufacturers, who exist solely because-they
are protected, have been aware of my intentions
for
.fire years past, and they have had plenty of
time to prepare for the change. The system of
prohibitions has had its day, and I have not the
power to raise the dead." The Debats now
praises the scheme in the most unqualified man-
ner. The Times' correspondent affirms that the
commercial treaty with England will be signed
before the end of this week,—Lord Cowley hav-
ing returned to Paris with full powers to do so.
We give elsewhere a copy of a proposed Bill
for the prevention of bribery and the amendment
of the corrupt practices act, which Sir Fitzroy
Kelly, M.P., has introduced to the notice of Lord
Brougham, in a long letter he has addressed to
him. " The prevalence of this crime," he observes,
"in more than half the electoral boroughs of the
kingdom ; the inadequacy of the laws in being to
the repression of the offence ; the utter failure of
every attempt hitherto made by legislation, by
punishment, by exposure, by disfranchisement,
even to check this practice ; and the discredit
thus brought, not only upon the country, its laws,
and character, but all free constitutions, and the
very name of liberty itself, seem to render it
imperative upon the Government and the Legis-
lature to make one more effort, and resort to
some yet untried means to remedy this great evil."
There can be no doubt of this, and should Sir
Fitzroy Kelly succeed in effecting an enactment
of the measure calculated to put a stop to such
practices at elections, which constitute a great
national disgrace, he will indeed be eminently
entitled to the gratitude of his country. His own
hope
is " that,of
the i f
Legislature,t his measure
receiveinsahsmalluchasit will
the
be impossible hereafter for any one to take part
in the commission of bribery without, if it be the
sanction
candidate, incurring the moral criminality, and,
as to him and all other persons, the penal conse-
quences attaching to the crime of perjury, as all
men must feel that hereafter disgrace and ruin
must fall upon the violators of the law,—a stop
will be put to a system which has long been a
deep and foul blot upon the name and reputation

of this country."
In our reporting columns will be found a