Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-01-27 00:00:00

THE DAY'S NEWS.

Peace or war is still the topic of universal
attraction on the Continent. Our intelligence
continues to be of a most conflicting character,
but the preponderance of warlike rumours must
be stated. Confidence in the maintenance of
peace gains ground in Paris, but it would be diffi-
cult to assign any' other reason far it than the fact
of people allow
thought." nlg, "Le b wish to be father to the
they are avers he Nelieve in peace, simply because
ar ; but, as such facts as tran-
spire are more of
a warlikei than a pacific ten-
dency, the advocates of recourse to physical
of
force for the settlement the Italian question,
have a better foundation
for theix arguments than
those who take the other view,
ulla
indulge in a
hope that a Congress will settle e
make all pleasant. It is given out tlaea hing, and
Gov
Government is anxious to settle the point he French
by the means of diplomacy ; but, uncortat issue
the point is not one which, as yet, AustrurtelY,
a has
shown the slightest disposition to submit to
arbi-
tration. On the contrary, every mail from Vienna
brings intelligence that the Austrain Government
fully expects that war will, sooner or later, arise
from the Italian question, and that it is preparing
for the worst.

If hostilities have not actually commenced on the
battle-field of Nortb. Italy, the war on paper is
raging intensely all over South Germany, and the
justice of the cause is utterly lost sight of, each
journalistic belligerent being simply biassed by hitt
personal sympathies, and some who advocate
human progress in the abstract, shunning all
efforts to right what is wrong, in the apprehension
that Popes' and cardinals' tiaras and red hats, and
other venerated wicrs might strew the green.
The
Paris correspondent of the Globe affirms
that the fermentation in Gallicia is such, Oat

80,000 troops have been concentrated oitmg that
frontier and at Limberg, the capital, an outbreak
from Russian sympathisers being hourly.contem-
plated, Unfortunately these forces are principally
conscript Poles, and are unite as likely to side with
Russia AS to fight on their own hook, the whole of
that province being ripe for annexation to the
great Selavonic Power of the North, and Austrian
rule being far more abhorred than that of their
kindred Muscovites, setting aside the prevalence
of the orthodox Greek faith in Gallicia.
It is confidently stated that a note has been
addressed the British Government to that of the
King of Sardinia, couched in very friendly but very
earnest terms, and strongly deprecating a war
policy. It has has also been officially communi-
cated to the Sardinian Court, that the Prince of
Wales will go to Turin in the spring, on his return
from his Italian tour, to visit the King of Sardinia.
The announcement has been responded to in the
most courteous and friendly terms. Every mani-
festation of good feeling on the part of the
English Government towards . Sardinia is
particularly welcome at this moment to those
persons who expect and wish for war.
From Servia the news is that the Skupstchina
continues to carry on the bloodless revolution
energetically. It has banished several of the
members of the late government, and further
dismissals are looked for It has also resolved
that Prince Milosch, the new ruler, is not to go
to Constantinople without the permission of the
Skupstchina.

The Cape mail has arrived. Trade was im-
proving, railroads were progressing, and the small-
pox had disappeared. This is the sum and sub-
stance of the news.

We have some further details of news from
India, received by telegraph via Trieste. The
Calcutta Englishman complains of Lord Clyde's
tactics as " nothing but useless Marching and
counter-marching," and states that private letters
assert that our troops have received orders not to
fire on the enemy until the rebels had fired first.
Nana Sahib'had stopped at Bethoor to dig up his
treasures. The Chinese intelligence adds nothing
to what was already known by telegraph.
A deputation from the Anti-slavery Society had
an interview on Tuesday, with Sir E. B. Lytton,
on the Jamaica Immigration Bill. They strongly
argued against the alleged necessity for the intro-
duction of immigrants into the West India islands.
At a meeting of the London Commissioners of
Sewers, Dr. Letheby reported rather favourably
of the health of the City, in which, however, the
rates of mortality still remain considerably higher
than in other parts of England.
The weekly meeting of the West Derby Guar-
dians was held yesterday, but no business of any
importance was transacted. The clerk was directed
to send a letter to the Poor Law Board, in refe-
rence to a new scheme of medical relief, to the
effect that the local board, " having experienced
the effects of paying extra fees to medical officers,
cannot give their sanction to any principle which
would re-introduce the system which has been
found to entail disagreement between the officers,
and other inconveniences." A motion that the
salary of Mr. Olney, relieving officer, be advanced
from £lOO to £l2O per annum was negatived.

THE NORTVERN TIMES THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 1859

The exports and the imports of one and all of our

Colonies in these hemispheres keep increasing at,
a rate even beyond the progress of their popula-
tion ; and while their resources, accordingly, are
becoming very large, the Colonists generally are
appropriating them with a liberal hand towards their
rapid advancement in all that appertains to a high
state of civilisation and enlightenment. The
Colony of Victoria, in fact, quite in its infancy
though it be, is already in a much more pros-
perous state than Canada. It has a revenue
reaching nearly, if not quite, to four millions,
sterling, while that of Canada falls far short
of a million and a-half. Then while the exports of
Victoria are about sixteen, and its imports fifteen
millions, those of Canada do not quite reach half
these amounts. And Victoria, be it remembered,
is but one of six British Colonies in those southern
regions. No wonder, then, that the tide of
emigration should be flowing so strongly thither-
ward, in preference to America. Besides, the
money inducements to the labouring classes are so
much more tempting ; since, as regards wages,
carpenters, smiths, wheelwrights, bricklayers, and
masons can earn from 12s 2d to 13s 6d a-day,
without board and lodging ; farm labourers, £3O
to £4O per annum, and mere shepherds £3O to
£34 ; plain cooks earn £24 to £27 a-year ; house-
maids, £l9 to £22; laundresses, £23 to £26;
nursemaids, £l6 to £l9; general house servants,
£2O to £24; and female farm servants, dairy-
maids, &c., £l9 to £22. These are inducements
which neither the United States nor Canada can
now offer; to say nothing of our Australian
Colonies being what the United States, at any
rate, have long since ceased to be—thoroughly
English settlements, in constitution and character.

There is one remarkable peculiarity, as respects
the social state of our Australian Colonies a
defect, indeed, which it would be well were it
remedied,—we mean the disparity in the propor-
tion of the sexes. In every one of them, the
male portion of the population considerably exceeds
that of the female portion. In Victoria, for
instance, there are 258,116 males, to 145,303
females ; in South Australia, 53,086 to 51,622 ; in
Tasmania, 46,606 to 34,886 ; in New Zealand,
27,418 to 20,775 ; and in New South Wales
161,882 to 124,991. This disproportion, we say,,
ought to be remedied. And surely we have here
at home thousands and tens of thousands of young
women who find it hard indeed to live at all, to
whom these Colonies offer opportunities not only
of gaining a comfortable subsistence, but of
promoting their advancement and their settlement
in positions- of virtuous and useful life ; whic h
could not fail to be to themselves a most blessed
change, while it contributed in an important
degree to the prosperity of the Colonies.