Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-05-30 00:00:00

NORTIIERN TIMES, MONDAY, MAY 30 1859

neighbourhood of Canton and Whampoa, and the Chinamen
thus kidnapped are said to have her taken down, chained
iR lorchas, to the neighbouring Portuguese settlement of
Macao, where they are placed in barracoons, and shipped off,
chiefly in French vessels, for Cuba.

COMMERCIAL.
CALCUTTA, April 22

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MONEY continues abundant, but the Bank of Bengal has
maintained its former rates. What the effect of the new
loan opened by government yesterday, at 51 per cent, will
be, has yet to be seen ; but it cannot improve the position of
the old loans, nor can the government hope to gain much
by the announcement.
FREIGHTS : No alteration in rates since our last issue.
Tonnage yet large, and
.produce scanty ; and prices keep
light. Business continuing • for England and America as
before; for China, nothing doing.
The EXPORT MARKET is altogether inactive. From
several districts favourable rains are again reported, and
though some partial damage has been experienced from
hail, &c., on the whole, the reported prospects are vary
favourable.

• AMERICA.
ARRIVAL OF THE NIAGARA

The Cunard steamer Niagara, has arrived with
New York dates to the 17th, Boston 18th, and Halifax
20th inst. The Niagara brings 150 passengers, and
$1,039,929 in specie.
The news to hand is not of much interest or
importance.
Mr. Dallas, the American Minister at London, had
informed the State Department at Washington that
the British Government disapproved the treaty
negotiated by Sir .William Gore Ouseley with
Nicaragua, and that Sir William had been directed
to return to Nicaragua and conclude a treaty in
accordance with his instructions. _

The secret intrigues, plots, and counterplots of
the caucus and convention managers, of all parties,
factions, and cliques, for the next Presidency, have
actively commenced in various quarters ; but, as
usual, the New York democracy, hards and softs,
are foremost in getting up a row. The American
papers are full of reports of the proceedings of the
various factions, but so far they are not of the least
interest to English readers.
The Southern Commercial Convention had orga-
nised at Vicksburg resolutions, offered by a delegate
from South Carolina, in favour of the re-opening of
the African slave trade were vehemently opposed by
Governor Foote, of Mississippi, who denounced the
sentiments of the South Carolina gentlemen as high
treason, The Governor declared that it was the duty
of the government to acquire Cuba, and gain a pre-
ponderating influence on the Isthmus. Resistance
to the administration of a republican President was
proposed.
A New York paper, of the latest date, says :
It is stated, on what is regarded as reliable authority,
that owing to the disturbed state of affairs in Italy likely to
ensue in consequence of the war in Europe, it is by no
means improbable that the Pope will repair to the United
States. The Holy Father would, no doubt, receive a hearty

welcome.

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A New York paper, in noticing the award of
$162,000 a year to David H. Johnston, of New
York, for the conveyance of the mails between that
city and San Francisco says :
It is contended that $162,000 would never pay, and
that the contract, therefore, is not bona fide. The object,
however, is not so much to make money directly by the con-
tract with thegovernment as to make the passenger business
pay, in virtue of the government endorsement of the line. The
contract is only for nine months, and after theline is estab-
lished a more profitable contract may take its place. Enor-
mous profits have been made by those lines which are now
carrying passengers to the Pacific, and this has stimulated
rivalry and competition to such a degree that we have no
doubt responsible parties could be found who would carry
the mails gratuitously in order to get the chief share of the
passenger trade.
Advices from Pike's Peak state that there has
been much suffering there, and starvation for want
of provisions. A supply of provisions was on the
way thither.
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There is a report in the St. Joseph's Gazette of the
burning of Aurora and Denver City, on account of
local rivalry. _ _

In the New Orleans papers by this arrival, we
find the following paragraph :—" Captain M'Donald,
of the barque George Stuckey, which arrived here,
reports that while off the Brazilian coast, he was
twice fired upon by an English man-of-war, to him
unknown. Captain M'Donald hoisted his national
colours, and they had been up but for a moment,
when the Britisher altered her course."
The last arrival from Mexico brings us Mr.
M‘Lane's. reply to the protest of the Miramon
government in Mexico. Mr. M‘Lane, after reciting
the positions taken in the protest, and stating that,
when Mr. Forsyth recognised the Zuloaga govern-
ment, it was de facto the government of Mexico, and
that political relations with it were closed, not
because the United States failed in negotiations for
the purchase of territory, but because the Zuloaga
government trampled upon all principles of
international law and comity, continues as follows :
Still later, when almost the entire Mexican nation had
repudiated the central government, and the constitutional
government of President Juarez was fully restored to its
functions, and accepted by more than four-fifths of the
republic, through its special minister in Washington, Senor
Mata, it invited the government of the United States to
reopen political relations with the republic of Mexico. The
great extent of territory in the republic of Mexico, bordering
upon that of the United States, and the very important
and intimate relations—political and commercial—that
have been established between the two republics by existing
treaties, and the enterprise of the citizens of both countries,
make it the imperative , duty of the government of the
United States to re-open political relations with the
republic of Mexico whenever a just regard to its own
dignity and the laws and usages of nations would enable it
to do so. Under these circumstances, although a civil war
existed in the republic of Mexico, and the government, of
which President Miramon is the hief executive, held pos-
sessson of the capital of the republic and two or three of
its principal cities, the government of the United States
could not well refuse to recognise the constitutional govern-
ment of Mexico as the rightful and de facto authority with
which it was his duty to negotiate in relation to all imperial
questions at issue between the governments of the two
republics.
Stating that four-fifths of the Mexican States
and all the sea ports of that, country recognised the
government of Juarez, Mr. M'Lane says that these
considerations were enough to warrant the accept-
ance of the overtures made to our government by
Seno Mata, and then continues :

In this act of recognition of the constitutional govern-
ment by that of the United States, nothing is signified that
can properly be regarded as a departure from the impartial
neutrality which has always directed the policy of the
United States in relation to the Republic of Mexico in those
civil wars and contests for the sovereignity of the Republic
which have heretofore afflicted the country ; for, although
strictly speaking, it rests with the nation to determine in
whom the legitimate authority of the country resides, yet
foreign states must of necessity judge for themselves
which of the contending governments or parties they will
recognize by sending to or receiving ambassadors, or
whether they will suspend altogether diplomatic
relations with the nation in question, and either
alternative may be adopted without affording any
just cause of complaint. In reference to the particular
case now under consideration' nothing has yet been done by
the goveriiient of the United States, or its reprentatives in
Mexico, which denies to the government in the city of
Mexico, of which President Miramon is the chief Executive,
all its rights as a government where it exists, whether
these be rights of war against its enemy, or political rights
over all those properly subject to its actual authority
wherever the same may be established, and all attempts
emanating from that government to misrepresent the policy
and political action of the government of the United States
must only tend to disturb the state of impartial neutrality
which it now occupies.
Mr. Ocampo, in his rejoinder, after declaring that
the Juarez government is merely an ephemeral
usurpation, says—
It wastes the public funds, destroys the institutions of
learning and public charity, the more clearly and fully to
give the lie, by its acts, to its pretensions and pretences for
life, liberty, and property. But your Excellency need have
no uneasiness on this account. This bloody and long
protracted drama shall terminate, and the final result of its
protest will be that posterity shall award to it the
merit of the logical deduction to be drawn between
its pretensions and its declarations. Destitute, as
they are, of the legitimate title to speak in the name

of the nation, nothing they can say is binding upon
her; neither is there any danger that the subsequent
assent by the whole Republic shall hereafter hall, 1r
its acts. Your Excellency may well rely, as you do and
ought to, upon the wisdom of your government, upon tfle
good and substantial reasons which your Excellency had to
act as you have done, and upon the just right and material
power of that government which your government has
recognised as the only legitimate government of the
Republic, and do not fear that this Republic can be
obligated to anything by the rebel faction of the capital
which does not comport with its interests.