Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-09-01 00:00:00

81; Shrewsbury and Hereford, 94

The Market for the Public Funds continues

languid, but all classes of Securities remain firm

Consols are officially marked 951 to 4 for money,

and 95a for the 17th of September.

Bank stock

has been dealt in, at 2244 ; the Three per Cents

Reduced, at 96 to 96t ; the New Three per Cents.,
at 96 to 961; the Indian Four per Cent. Deben-

tures, 1858, at 951 to 2 ; ditto 1859, at 944 ; the

scrip of the New Loan, at 98} to 4- ; ditto stock

; Indian Bonds, at 3s. to Bs. dis. ; and

Exchequer Bills, at 21s. to 245. prem

foreign stock market is very quiet, except 'as
regards Mexican bonds, which have improved,

being marked 201 and 20

The London Share Market to-day is generally

firm, though inactive. Midland stock is in demand,
at a fresh improvement. Many of the-leading de-
scriptions are quoted ex the half-yearly dividend.

London and North-western stock is now quoted

941 to R ex . div. ; London and South-western,
Great Western, 601 to I ; Midland,
1041 to 6 ex div. : Lancashire and Yorkshire,

921 to ti

98 to ; Great Northern, 101 to 102 ex div. ;
York and North Midland, 72 to A

and Eastern

Counties, 561 to 57, ex. div. Lombardo-Venetian
Railway Shares are dull, at the reduction which

took place yesterday afternoon ; the original

issue is quoted 2 to I prem., and the New, 2to
prem. East Indian and Great Indian Penin-
sula Railway Stocks are in demand, with an
upward tendency. The Canadian and Brazilian
Railway Shares are somewhat firmer.

The half-yearly meeting of the Submarine

Telegraph Company was held to-day. The report
stated that, now the Boulogne cable was laid,

which was the strongest and most perfect that
had hitherto been manufactured, the company

possessed ten efficient conducting wires for tele-

graphic purposes between England and France,
besides six to Belgium, and five. to. Hanbver,
Denmark, and. the North of Europe. A cable

would also shortly be laid by the company be-

tween the Channel. Islands and the French Coast

The report was adopted,

A dividend of 7 per

cent. was declared, and 10 per cent. of the nett
reserve was appropriated to the Revenue Fund.

The business transacted at the London Corn
Market' was about the average amount which has

prevailed for some time past ; but, on the whole,

The we

ather is chilly

LONDON PRODUCE
SUGAR.—This market

buyers to come in. Lump.
COFFEE. - This article

IIItURSDA Y, SEPTIC.IIkIkE li, 1859,

THE DAY'S. NEWS

On Tuesday afternoon her Majesty the Queen
raid a visit to Dalkeith ''glace, the beautiful seat
of the Duke and Duchess of &teetench. On her
return to Edinburgh in the evening, the Queen
drove to the west engtof the city.

The Zurich. Conferences do not appear, so
as outward features can indicate, to be making
much practical way towards a conclusion of the
arrangements for which they were avowedly
instituted. Private conferenees continuo to take
place between the plenipotentiaries, and for the

last three days the representatives of France and
Austria held daily conferences. On Tuesday, the
French and Sardinian plenipotentiaries held a

meeting

There would now seem to be no doubt that the
rumour is but too true of a general massacre of
the Christians of Borneo having been peipetrated
on the 2nd of last May. The massacre took place
in the Dutch portion of the island. It is said to
have been : committed entirely "from a religious

fanaticism; that it was not connected with any

had nothing to do with it. But few particular

)f the dreadful-event, however, have yet come to

At the Borough Licensing Sessions, yesterday

an exception was taken as to the legal constitution

of the bench of magistrates, on the ground that

two of the justices who had been sitting reside at a
greater distance than seven miles from the borough.
In answer to the objection, which was taken as
their worships were about to retire for the eon-

itself to lai

;e bodies of skilled operatives in many

of ,th
..411:ge zi

Afa.ctliting :t9 NV S

I if not to follow' the e

iilc .chain-

tive builders—at• least to imitate them i

demand for curtailing the hours of labo.

Girt aiminishing, the amout

should receive. It now appears that the line Of

action taken by the parties first named has. been

adopted, so far, kt least; by the ope

'es en-

gaged'. in different towns, and in various aceupd-

Thus, we find that the :line hours" move-

ment hus been a-clepted by the workmo.n at
Nottingham aild Plymouth. While this life of

conduct. is pursued by those workmen who feel

convincettof its practicability and cssefulness, kt'w

have any right to complain ; but wizen the same

freedom of...action which these individuals clairni

to themselves, is denied by them tto those wili

entertain different views* it becomes an infringe-
ment of individual and of public r4at. This

.applies. alike to employers and empl.;lyed ; and,
while deprecating the right as well as the

,prudence of workmen controlling the fellows
I •

lit is scarcely, less true that the " dbaUment"

linsisted on lly the employors, is as imrelitic and

inexpedient= as the less reined coercion ea.ereised

by the men_ ' The case is fairly put

ployer, who: u the London: journals states that

after sixteen: years' experience, he has not had

any dacultTin finding men to carry on his.work

His simple and,efficacious remedy for, or rather pre-

ventative of the evil, is to. decline to eniploy men

who, belonging to trades' unions, are bound by
regulations which may seriously hiterfere with

his means of carrying on his.husiness. Tha ope-
ratives themselves, who are m.connected w ith the

strike, have formed'a defensive society

-.--

THE Emperor NAPOLEON appears to delight in
taking the world by surPvise. Still, however
sudden may be the execution, and development
of his planst,it is generally believed that the for-

illation of tb.em has been long latent' in his. taci-
turn and plotting mind. The abruptness. with

which he executes the delitterations of aminftexi-:
ble will perplexes all around him,—apparently,
the acts off, a. capricious impulse ; but in.:reality
only the birth of a long and, suppressed premedi:

talon, brought forth just. at the firma, most

'befitting to give it life and
of not allowing any one- to participate in his
schemes, he imitates his. uncle NAPOLEON 1., to
whose idiosyncracy he sews ever anxious, in all
things, identically to mould his idea',, and to
practically, adopt the proverb, that

action. In this. habit

a, wise man

" keepeth. his own counsel." The very last act
of Amnesty which he has, granted to all French
political exiles, and which has been Ity some of
the most distinguished:, indignantly reketed, is of
a lilw nature with the " coup d'etat
HMI, LOUIS BLANCi, and LEDAU ItOLLIN, were
evitloutly as much taken by surprise,, by this act
of. the Imperial clemency, as were Generals
GUAIGNAC, CHAMPARNIER, anth M. TRIERS„
when they were unceremoniously aroused at mid-
night and driven. off to Vincennes. The preseßt
alternation from. the activity anti horrors of the
Italian campaign, to a state a repose, and the
pursuit of peaceful occupation, is anether
illustration of the peculiarity of the mould, in
which the mind of LOUIS NAPOLEON has been
cast,—if the contrast between the last few
months a his life and the present is not a studied
simulation. Yet no one for a moment, who has
carefully and sciutinizingly watched the policy

VICTOR

of his dynasty, believes that the purpose hr

posingly and pompously paraded, in his pro-
gramine, of freeing Italy from the Alps to the
Adriatic of Austrian misrule, was the outbreak

of a sudden and generous impulse, rather than

the fruit of long matured premeditation.
It is from this view of his character that the

pamphlet on Russia, just published, and att

buted

Press, to the Duke of Saxe-Coburg -Goth

the whole of his policy

Ge'imany, and the

the European Powers to the rule of the Em

peixiis of Russia and France; the zeal for tl

liberation of the Italian Peninsula being merely

a pretence to accomplish that polic
the whole of his diplomatic intrigues re-

which

veal, as only a means to an end. Whether

the purpose of the Royal pamphleteer is to

rouse Germany to action, in order to frus

trate this scheme, long preconceived, in his

opinion, by LOUIS NAPOLEON, or not, it must

be interesting at the present critical juncture of
European politics to know what are the impres-

sions on such a subject of one so closely allied to
our own Royal Family. Writing of the Powers of
France and Russia, he says :—" The time has

" again come when the Germans must prove to
" the world that they are not afraid to face these

two revolutionary Powers united. A powerful
and united Germany can alone put a limit to
the conflagration which has burst forth, and

" can alone restore to Europe a lasting peace
. •

"is for the sake of re-establishing,
in common

"with the other European Powers, a state of
"right and justice, under which alone the pur-

" suits of peace can be carried on in security,
" that Germany is arming, and that Prussia is
" placing her troops on a war footing. We are

preparing for war in order to re-establish peace

' author of the deportation to Cayenne can

haVe no love for freedom ; it is impossible that

he can endure the existence of it either in

France or elsewhere, nor can he have any
heartfelt desire for ' the independence of

other nations. NAPOLEON'S object in Italy

is to carry out his own selfish schemes,

" These are the overthrow of all that now exists,
"and the conversion of thQ imsources of that de-
"voted country, by ki*Ans. of revolution, to his