Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-12-10 00:00:00

HUNGARY.

Accounts from Vienna state that the pretensions
of the Ilun.garians are increasing. Some of the
leading men say the restoration of the Constitu-
tion would not suffice, unless its maintenance was
guaranteed by the Powers.

THE WAR IN MOROCCO.

Reports are current in Madrid that dysentery
and even cholera had broken out amongst the
Spanish troops. It is known that the army has
already undergone great fatigues, which must
have occasioned sickness ; but the Espana hopes
that the rumours are exaggerated. It is thought
the Spanish Generals will not assume the offensive
till all their forces shall beconcentrated.

The official Gazette publishes details of the
losses sustained by, the first corps in the combats
of the 19th and subsequent days. It shows that
9 officers were killed, one a Major-General, and
45 wounded, and that 79 soldiers were killed, and
717 wounded.

The gVloors in the neighbourhood of Ceuta are
repreSented to- be well armed, and well sup-
plied with stores, and their commander is
said to be: .a celebrated Marabout of great intelli-
gence and energy.

The Correspondancia confirms the fact that the
Moors, even when resistance is absolutely hope-
-lel6, refuse to yield themselves prisoners,

THE IttSSO-dHigESE 11IISUNDEh'-

The report that the Emperor of China h.:4 given
the Russians notice to quit, as he had never au-.
thorised the cession of territory to them, and
that the Russian Embassy at Pekin was sealed'
up in its palace has not been confirmed by any of
the foreign journals yet received, or by tele-
graphic despatches.

THE GREAT LIVERPOOL'SHIPPING

CASE

LONDON, Dec. 9.

In the Court of Exchequer, the case of Pen-
hallow v. the Mersey Harbour and Docks Board,
which has been before the court five days, ter-
minated this afternoon, shortly before five o'clock,
when the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff,
with L-10,000 damages, the amQunt claimed by
the plaintiff for the injuries sustained by his
vessel.

GAZETTE NEWS.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, Nov. 30.

The Queen has been pleakd to appoint Ruther-
fort Alcock, Esq.., now her Majesty's Consul-
General in Japan, to be her Majesty's En voy
Extraordinary, and Minister Plenipotentiary and
Consul-General at Japan

LONDON, Dee. 9.

At the.meeting of the Lonelon Chartered Bank
of Anstralin to-day, a dividend of 31 per cent.
for the half-year was declared.
At the half-yearly-meeting of the Royal Agri-
cultural ociety, to-day, a very favourable
financial report was read. The society was for
the first time enabled to Ray the expenses of the
year, in the same year that they had accrued.
The number of Aembers is 5,240, being an in-
crease of 79 since the last meeting.

The'following appeared in a portion of our im-
pre;ision of yesterday

THE GREAT EASTERN.

The postponement of an explanation by the directors
for another month has excited great dissatisfaction
among. the shareholders.
The Times remarks that, considering the financial
difficulties of the concern, it was to have been supposed
they would have insisted on an opportunity of meeting
their constituents without the needless delay of a single
day.
notwithstanding. the determination of the directors to
postpone the meeting which they had called for the
15th inst., some of the shareholders propose to hold a
meeting Of their own on that day.

TRIAL OF A BATTERY OF ARMSTRONG

GUNS.

The first battery of Armstrong guns—six 12-pounds
-breach-loading rifles, was yesterday proved at Wool-
wich, in preparation for transit to China by the over-
land route. The charges consisted of the largest amount
of powder with which it was possible to cram the
chambers of each gun,-and a couple of double aliot.
The terrible shock produced brought the guns off their
position with a leap, and gave a recoil of 25 feet.
Nevertheless. the thorough temper of the material, and
the remarkable character of the guns resisted the
shock. They were accordingly pronounced impossible
to burst under fair usage.