Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-12-23 00:00:00

L in a porgon of our im-

The following appearec
pression of yesterday :
MONEY MARKET,' &e.

•
The funds to-day were firm, and an improvement of
per cent. took place : business was slack in the ex-
trome. In the share markets thete was an entire
absence of animation. British railway, securities closed
with rather a dull appearance. There was a good de-
mend for money, and few transactions took place below
Bank minimum. There were no operations is bullion
at the &Ilk to-day.— Daily News.
The English futids this morning opened at an improve-
ment of and have closed with steadiness, but the
transactions of the day have been unimportant. In the
discount market to-day, there was a full demand at 2-1,
per
.cent., but at the Bank the applications were scarcely
so. witnerous as yesterday. Business in the railway
'market has- been at a complete .staad to-day, and the
quotations of the principal British stocks were mostly
the;same as yesterday:—Tines.

,
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.—Dgc. 22.

The cotton market continues extremely dull, and
prices are irregular at id. to td. per lb. decline. The
sales—including 120 Pernambuco, at 771-,-,d. to 74d. ' • 40
Maranham, Sod. ; 100 Egyptian, 9d. to 10d. ; and 500
Surat, 31d. to 51d.—are reported 6,000 bales, of which
500 are on speculation and for export.

LIVERPOOL PRODUCE MARKET.-DBC. 22.
SUGAR.-There is no change to notice ; the business
comprises 280 hhds. Demerara at 375. per cwt.
Rum.-150 puncheons Demerara have found buyers
at about previous rates.
RICE.-Nothing new has occurred.
TAPIOCA.-140 barrels Rio were sold at tid per lb.
PIMENTO.-70 bags found buyers at 3d. to 30. per lb.
SAGO FLOUR.-500 bags at 16s. 6d. per cwt.
SEEDS.-2,000 bags Bombay Linseed at 525. 6d. per qr.
DYEWOODS.-No sales reported.
DRYSALTERIES, &C.-Three casks Sicily. Argols, 808. ;
small sales of discoloured Tartar, 117 s. 6d. ; one ton of
Tartaric Acid, Is. 91d. ; twelve bags Persian Berries,
455.: sixteen pipes Lemon Juice, Id. per degree ; 150
bales heated Gambier, 16s. 6d. ; ten tons 2nds Brim-
stone at SO ; thirty tons Nitrate of Soda, 15s. 6d. ;
Ashes, Pots, 275. 3d., Pearls, 28s. ; thirty-four bags
ordinary New Valonia at Sl6 108. per ton.
OILS, &c.-Palm £44 10s. ; P.Y.C. Tallow 58s. 6d.
to 595. ; le tons Tuscan Lard 545. 9d. to 558. ; common
Rosin 4s. 3d. to 48. 4d. ; Spirits of Turpentine, 345. ;
Olive Oil in good demand at full rates.

LIVERPOOL AGRICULT

AL MARKET, Dsc. 22.

8. d. e. d.
Hay, old: 0 11 to 0 124
Ditto, new
Ditto, clover._ 0 9 ... 0 104
Green Clover 0 0 0 0
Vetches 0 0 0 0
Straw, wheat
Ditto, oat 0- 54 0
Ditto, barley:. 0 4 ... 0 44
Oats, in straw. 0 0 ... 0 0
Potato., flukes 0 0 ... 0 0

s. d.
I Potstos, kemps 0 0 to ,* 0
Do. Seedlings. 0 0 d 0
Do. whiterocks 0 0 ... 0 0
Do. Balshaw 0 0 ... 0 0
Do. Beldrums 0 0 ... 0 0
Do. cattle 0 0 ... 0 0
Turnips 24 0 ...25 6
Carrots ' ' 0 0 ~. 0 0
Mangelwurzel 23 0 ...24 0
Manure 5 0 ... 6
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LONDON PRODUCE MARKET.—Dic. 22.
Suoan.--,The market has been very quiet to-day, and
prices ars unaltered.
COPFEE.—FuII prices have been paid for this article
to-day. ' •
TRA..— The demand continues very good, and sales
have been made at the extreme prices of yesterday., ,
RICE remains unaltered.
SALTFETRB.—Prices have been supported.
atm.—Common leewards have been sold at Is. 9fd.
tole. 10d. ; Demerara proof, 2s. ld.
Simms are steady.
In other articles no material alteration.

DON TALLOW MARKET.—Dac. 22.
,46,,rfiz,1_wein_ibit little change since yesterday,
FetefirsblglTY.O. OnT
Januaryolne tflpoot7,6BsB6.:.al6dl.,thneetincoaanth,li ;
' 675. 6d. to 678. 9d. •
March alone, 579. id. ti m-ch, sm. to 5711. 3d.;
LONDON MINING MARIERT._Thic. 22.
In the mining market to-day
East Wheel Russell
shares have rallied, being marked in the Stock Exchange
at 13. Providence are more offered, and have ew
dealt in at 441.. The other transactions have been
chiefly in shares in Cam Brea, Stray Park, South cam
Brea, and Treloweth mines. Fortuna Mining share,
continue in demand, and have been dealt in at 3t and
3i. The shares of the Great Northern Copper Mining
Company of South Australia, which have this day been
placed upon the official list, are marked I prem.

BOROUGH HOP MARKET.—Dsc. 22.
There is steady business doing in new Hops at very
fall prkes. Fine yearling command extreme rates.

METROPOLITAN TATTLE MARKEL—DEC. 22.
The supplies of stock here to-day were very limited,

THE DAY'S NEWS.

There is very little foreign news of any im-
portance.
Although the political interest of
Europe may just now be said to centre in Paris,
even from that capital the accounts are extremely
meagre. There is an idea afloat, we find, that
the Emperor may have something particular to
enunciate to the corps diplomatique on New
Year's Day; though it is not thought, for a mo-
ment, to be likely to have any hostile indica-
tion,- but, most probably to contain an as-
surance of his earnest desire to consolidate
the peace of Europe. Certainly, he will have the
opportunity of pointing to the Congress, which
will so shortly assemble there, as one which is
called together in the interests of peace, and which
will have it in its power to serve those interests
by--a judicious settlement of a question which has
already done too much to disturb the peace, not
of Italy alone, but of neighbouring countries, and
which at one time threatened to produce a conti-
nental conflagration.
The French have already lost one of their new
war steamers ;—the Dugnesclin, of 450 horse-
power, has run on a reef off Brest, and sunk in
deep water.
France would seem to be in great haste to
secure a position at her new acquisition on the
Red Sea, which is immediately to be made, it is
stated, the head quarters of a naval station. A
steam corvette is to be fitted out with the utmost
despatch, in order to go and secure immediate
possession.
The London Times devotes nearly a page of its
yesterday's impression to the translation of a
pamphlet which it considers destined to produce
no inconsiderable sensation. The author is
M. de LagueiToniere, the same writer whose
production, "Napoleon 111. et 1 'ltalie," heralded
the late Italian war ; and it is the opinion of our
contemporary, that "the same ominous pen is
now employed to foreshadow for us the coming
fate of the Popedom,"—adding, forcibly, and
only perhaps too truly, that " under the circum-
stances, we feel that we run little chance of error
in attributing to this publication the honour of
expressing in the most distinct and perspicuous
manner the views which are entertained as to the
future destiny of the Papacy by the Emperor
Napoleon himself." According to those views,
then, the misgovernment of the Papal do-
minions is something inveterate and inevi-
table. Principles are laid down from which
it is logically deduced that the Pope is not fit to
perform any political duties, and therefore dis-
qualified from governing any such large State as
that of the Itomagna. Yet as hia-Holinese can-
not be the subject of any one, the- Imperial
opinion is, that) he must be left in possession of
Rome itself, rich In so many associations, slid so
long the head quarters of that priestly power
which exerts its influence in every quarter of the
globe. We' are feft to conclude, therefore, that
the French Emperor will seek to restrict the
temporal dominions of the Pope to the holy city
itself—a position, however, limited though it be,
which will probably still require French bayonets
to enable him to retain.
Lord Palmerston has been —king not only a ,
speech, but a series of speeches. He has ad-
dressed the labourers to whom prizes have been
awarded by the Romsey Labourers' Encourage-
ment Association; and he has presided at the
annual dinner of the members of the association,
addressing the company at some length on pro-
posing the usual toasts of such occasions. But
the Premier contrived to steer. clear of politics.
The only political allusion of any kind that he
made had reference to the Volunteer movement,
in proposing the toast of the army and navy,
when he took occasion to remarl4, that there
was nothing in thee, present state of things to
betoken the likelihood of any opportunity for
t
that martial spirit to be displayed otherwise than
by showing tha we are ready
to defend our
shores; althQP.gh it must at the same time, he
said• be tis great satisfaction to know that the

army and navy were in a state of complete
efficiency. Perhaps the most remarkable-speech
which the noble, lord delivered on the occasion,
although not a long one, was one with which he
prefaced_ the toast, not very common in the mouths
of First Ministers of the Crown,--that of the
Press. We have given this spec& elsewhere, as
one, which forcibly shows how much importance
so shrewd a statesman as Lord Palmerston can-
not but attach to that important engine.
By telegraph from Galway, we. learn that the
steam-ship Circassian has •arrived at that port
from New York, with news to the -9th; and by
telegraph via St. John, we learn by the same
arrival that the President's message had not been
delivered on the 13th.
The formation of.. an Artisan Volunteer Artil-
lery Corps is in itself a.most satisfactory step in
the way of forwarding the patriotic movement
now on foot for protecting our country against
any menace from a foreign foe. In our reporting
columns it will be seen that, on Wednesday
night, no fewer than a hundred and fifty stal-
wart and true-hearted working men were sworn
in as artillery volunteers by Wm. Preston, Esq.,
late Mayor. This is in reality making the ser-
vice popular; and it will also aid in making it
effective.

THE perusal of the full report we furnished yes-
terday of the public meeting of the Mersey
branch of the Society for Missions to Seamen,
can scarcely have failed to increase the interest
so generally felt in that important body of the
people ; and we are sure, that not only the
Shipping Interest, but the town at large, owe a
deep debt of gratitude to those gentlemen who
so nobly came forward on the occasion to advo-
cate the cause of the British sailor,—his cause

not only as a seaman, but as a subject,—as one of
the common family of mankind, and as a member
of civilised society—characters, his claim to
which has hitherto been only too much overlooked ;
and, as a consequence of which, great evils have
resulted to his own community, whether afloat or

ashore, and to all with whom he must associate,
whether in the one situation 'or the other. We
quite agree with the declaration of one of the
resolutions of the meeting, "that, although the
"necessity for improving' the religious, social,
"and moral condition of the British seaman has
" long been felt, and many valuable efforts have
"been made in the right direction, yet still, the
" the great mass of our seamen have not hitherto
been sufficiently reached." Nor would it be
difficult, we think, to account for this. In the
first place, they are a body of men not very
accessible, during considerable portions of their
daily life; and, in the next place, their frequent,
and sometimes constant isolation from society,
renders them in some degree incapable of

those salutary social influences which can gene-
rally be brought to bear with effect upon other
classes of the community. No doubt, religious
influences have in some instances been exerted
over our seamen to a very good purpose; and the
principal object of the Society to whose meeting
we refer, is to make such influences available in
the most effectual manner. But, there are ob-
structions to the communication of those influ-
ences in the moral and social condition of the
seaman; and that condition is so much a conse-
quence of his peculiar position in life, and the
circumstances by which he is surrounded, as to
make it a very difficult thing indeed to carry out
any thorough and permanent improvement
therein. He may, for instance, when on shore,
be the object of constant ministerial care—his
religious interests may be carefully attended to—
and he may return to sea so favourably im-
pressed, both religiously and morally, as to
present himself a very different character from
what he was before. But unless the moral
atmosphere of the ship itself be improved, there
is no reliance on the permanency of thesb im-
pressions. Two or three vicious characters in
the crew, may in a few weeks undo all the good
that may have been done through the instrumen-
tality of such a Society as this, or by any other
religious or moral means—even although a ma-
jority of the crew might at first be unwilling to
yield to the old temptations. Here, then, we con-
ceive lies one great practical difficulty,—life at sea
is so seldom favourable to the interests either of

religion or morality. And when a crew return
from a long voyage, thoroughly imbued, as tkey
so generally are, with vicious principles, and
ready, therefore, to indulge in the most vicious
practices, their case is one of the most difficult
that can well be conceived for any reformatory
influence to aet upon. Without, therefore, for a
• moment meaning to discourage the benevolent
efforts of these Missions to seamen, we would
earnestly direct attention to this part of the ques-
tion. We quite agree with Mr. GRAVES, " that
" the British sailor has not kept pace with the
" improvement which has taken place in other
" classes around him." And we believe that one
cause of this will be found in the fact we have
mentioned,—that the moral and social atmosphere
of too many of their ships is unfavourable to such
' improvement ; and that any reformatory efforts
on shore must be seconded and carried out with
equal earnestness and vigour by similar efforts on
board. We would particularly point to one de-
moralising influence, which we understand pre-
vails to no slight extent on board both our steam
and sail vessels—the circumstance, namely, of the
crews so commonly indulging in the vicious habit
of singing immoral songs. As is well known
to all who have ever been at sea, many of
their nautical operations are accompanied with
song,—and very properly so, we think, as an
excellent means of enlivening their minds 1
and lightening their toil ; provided only such
song itself be free from objection. But fre-
quently their songs are grossly obscene, and
when they are not positively so, they are of
so foolish and vicious a character, as really to
have the effect of depraving the mind. Now a
single circumstance like this is of itself calculated,
we humbly conceive, to prove a great obstruction
l to those batter influences which it is the pious
1 and philanthropic object of these Viiiit,..,, to Sea-

men to bring them under. And so long as those
practices continue to prevail, such Missions, ex-
cellent as they are in their object, must to a very
great extent have their good effects neutralised, if
not destroyed.

This, then, we consider, may be taken as one of
the points in which, according to another resolu
flea, the interests of such a class of men have, not
been sufficiently regarded,—interests which so
loudly call for the practical consideration of the
Christian philanthropist. But when one sees such
a body of. gentlemen as those who met at the
Sailors' Home, coming forward to endeavour
to supply the shortcomings of those philan-
thropic efforts which have so far been made,
and not made altogether in vain—whatever diffi-
culties may beset such a question, there is yet
every reason to-hope, that they will now be over-
come, and that the British seaman will be rescued
from his prelent anomalous social position, and
be advanced iu the moral and social scale to that
state which he deserves to occupy, and his own
influence in which, for good or evil, can scarcely
be over-estimated.

IT was a strange dictum in the mouth of a
Roman Catholic, which the Irish Bishop, Mom-
ARTY, gave utterance to a week ago, that rebel-
lion could not be. justified unless tyranny was in-
tolerable. And it might have been expected that
the usual interested caution which marks Ultra-
montane utterances,would have withheld him from
conceding so much to the political enemies of the
Papacy. Such a sentiment coming in the form of
a confession from an expected advocate of high
prerogative doctrine, imports another difficulty
into the Clefensive system with, which these
arguers and protesters are trying to prop up a
falling power. At the same time, it must be ad-
mitted, it makes argument more practicable, and,
maybe, if fairly conducted, gives the latter more
chance "of a satisfactory issue. It is too much the
manner of Roman Catholic controversialists to
begiwon the very highest grounds, where none of
their opponents will follow them. The fight, there-
fore, goes on with great virulence, but in reality the
adversaries are beating the air. They are apart
from one another by the difference of a whole
principle, and are prevented b the conditions of
the case from coming to clOse quarters. All they
can do, and do do, is, to -call one another names at
a distance. To argue satisfactorily, or to argue at
all, there must be a point admitted between the
adversaries. There must be some common plat-
form, however small, where the combatants are
to carry on the struggle. To this extent there
must be sympathy even between enemies. The
man who begins 'from the principle that rebellion
is never justifiable under any amount of provoca-
tion and oppression, and another whose object
is to establish, in this particular case, the
enormity of the provocation and oppression,
cannot, really argue. at , all, much less argue
to any purpose. They begin from a different
starting point, and go along diverging lines.
The further they proceed the further from each
other they get, and the less tangible and appre-
ciable to each other do their arguments become.
England indeed has a very plain, practical front
to oppose to the hard syllogisms of Ultramon-
tanism. She refuses to argue at all where argu-
ment is impossible; and commits the question to
events which raised it, and which can alone,
under Providence, solve it.

In truth, it is well we have the last resort of
circumstances to fall back upon as the sovereign
solution of this question. We admit the diffi-
culty there is in giving its due place to Bishop
MORIARTY'S doctrine ; and defining when, or
whether at any time, tyranny justifies the first
act of resistance. It is very rarely, however,
that this becomes, in a particular case, a question
for conscious argunient. It may be a point in
school disputations for ever -- as it has been
hitherto —at what point res elution be-
comes rebellion. But when in thL particular
instance, these things are practically decided,
what remains for the world but to accept the
decision ? Bishop MORIARTY has opened another
question. which has rendered argument more
feasible, and yet which gives little hope of actual
agreement or anything more- than agreeing, to
differ. This is, as we have said, of itself a gain
but no practical result, is likely to be arrived at
by arguing the question on details rather than
on principle. It will be a long time before the
hereditary defenders and the hereditary enmities
of the Papacy come to agreement on the dispute,
whether the Papal rule is sufficiently oppressive
to justify the revolt of its subjects. The most we
can expect is, that those enmities will be avoided
which differences on high principles provoke
and that the contending parties, may leave each
other to their opinions with some amount of
toleration.
Thera may, however, be a fear that when Irish .
Roman Catholics are thus found coming down
from their pinnacle of prerogative, they do it
with an eye to the past history and the future
possibilities of Irish politics. The flexible opinion
of Roman Catholic authorities on the subject of
prerogative, is indeed not new to the world. In
oountries where their Church is in union with
the State, they are its rigid advocates on the
holiest of motives, and strengthen it with the
strongest spiritual anathemas. But where their
religion does not happen to be dominant, they
are, as their interests seem to require, too often
incendiaries ; and, as occasion serves, too often
rebels. But who shall descend with Bishop
MORIARTY and argue the multifarious details of
the Roman question ? Who shall add up the
instances of tyranny and misgovernment, the
instances and mistake, just as
which those who are
eacllesg allege against their Papal bad in
interested
of
sitr e incapacityd effects,
Whose
evidence is to be taken,

FRANCE.

A well-informed newspaper announces that au
appanage is about to be erected for the Prince
Imperial, and that the Chateau of Blois is to be
conferred upon him. The revenues of the Forest
of Blois and Boulogne are to be joined to the
appanage. The consent of the Legislative body
is necessary for the creation of an apanage.
The Minister of Marine has ordered a sterol
corvette to be fitted out with the utmost despatch,
It is said she is bound for the port just acquirei
by France in the Red Sea, and that this port is
to be the head-quarters of a naval station, corn"
posed of 5 corvettes, 2 frigates, and 10 gunboatig.
The nomination of the larquis La Tour
d'Auvergne, formerly Ambassador at Turin, hs
second French Plenipotentiary, gives great satis-
faction to the friends of Italy.
PARIS, Dee. 22.
Count Avigao, representative of the Republic
of San Maria at Paris, has presented a memoran-
dum to Count Walewski, addressed to the future
Congress, against the enroachments of Piedmont
The Emperor of the French has conferred the
Grand Cordon of the Legion of Honour on the
Prince d'Orange.

FRENCH FUNDS.
PAWS, Dee. 22.
12.10. P.M.—The Bourse opens steady ; Renteof
70 60.
3.35. P.M.—The market has again become
heavy, and all descriptions of Funds are offered•
Rentes receded nearly a per cent., the last price'
being 70 35.

ITALY.

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FLORENCE,. Dec. 21.
M. Buoncompagni arrived here to-day.
TURIN, Dec. 22.
Baron de Talleyrand, who has been appointer
Minister Plenipotentiary of France to this court,
is expected here on Saturday.
ROME Dec. 21.
The report that the Pope had claimed tile
Presidency of the Congress for his plenipoteir
tiaries is unfounded.

TURKEY.

CONSTANTINOPLE, Dec. 20.,
Ahmed Wefik Effendi has been appoint°'
ambassador to the imperial court of Paris.

PRUSSIA.

The Prussian Chambers are convoked for Or
12th of January.

RUSSIA.

ST. PETERSBURG, Dee• e;..t

Prince Gortschakoff has expressed a desire
_frel'"
the opening of the Congress should only'
place after the -Russian New Year (13th
1860) as he is detained on that day at the Co
by the duties of his office.
THE WAR WITH MO
i•
Yesterday, 8,000 Moors attacked the SeA7:A.„
but were repulsed energetically, and comPeu.:Tot
retreat in, great disorder, caused' by gra
peohoilet
grenades. The Spaniards had 51 wounde4 bpi
men-of-war, formerly stationed, at Havana, A.
arrived to reinforce the squadron at Al diet
great quantity of provisions NO been eV!"
to the army in Africa.
THE INDIA. TELEGRA
o
The Imperador, with 960 knots of thellied
aj
submarine telegraph cable on board, arrir jolt
Aden, Dec. Bth, after a passage of 67 darraill'al (fir
She reports that a ship from Kurraohee, vri _4lOO
banded
ntrpooTpsabloef
Bay,
,East India ComPoul' Tk
beating
roanded; but after al
S
ing troops and throwing cargo overw'.. lefo
floated next morning *llea the Lui,,.a4l4)'
The troops ware re-embarking.
MAIL NEWS.
k.gotlt
QuEENsTowx, Thursday'
The Kangaroo for New York, and the BoP
for Portland have proceeded. A.
CORK, Dec. 0,010
The special train conveying the Ames t 11.:4
of steamer Bohemian, which left Dublinails coolv
a.m. arrived here at 3.54 p.m. The m
id,
of nine bags. Pore'
for
The Canadian steamer Bohemian,
arrived here at 1.30 p.m.
The Liverpool, New York, and Pi
too
at t°'
Company's steamer Kangaroo arrived
o'clock.
e
The Sultan, steamer, has arrived -0
i

Friday, December 23, 1859.

with the Peninsular mails of the 17th. Lisbon
Exchange on London at three months 537; to
53'1. The Electoral contest on New-Nears' flay
Was absorbing the attention in political circles at
Lisbon.

LATEST FROM AMERICA.

GALWAY, Dec. 22.
The Royal Mail steamer Circassian, Campbell
commander, arrived at one p.m. from New York
and St. John's, with 225 passengers, a large cargo,
and heavy mails. Her dates from New York are
to the 9th, and St. John's to the 14th, but brings
no telegrams from New York vid St. John's. The
rrezddent's Message had not been delivered up to
the 13th. The Circassian brings the master and
crew of the ship Moffatt, abandoned at sea at
290 miles from St. John's, Newfoundland ; was
t"tuber laden, and bound for Liverpool.
CHICAGO, Dec. B.—Flour firm ; Wheat steady,
Kith an advance of 11c. • sales at cre• , • Corn and
$
Oats firm.

OSWEGO, Dec. B.—Flour dull, small sales.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. B.—Flour quiet, at $5
45e. to $5 374 e. ; Wheat, sales 7,000 bushels, at
II 37c. to $1 43e. ; for White; $1 30c. to $1 3c.,
for Red ; Corn, sales 5,000 bushels, at 73c. ; for
beW Yellow Oats better sales, at 43c. to 44c.
eiNulNArri, Dec. 7.—Flour and Wheat firm.
fork,
declining. Mess Pork, $l6 50c.; Bulk
36 to $8; Hog market unsettled, owing to
'arge receipts.
BUFFALO, Dec. B.—Flour in fair demand, with
wheat steady and in moderate demand. Oats firm.
SAVANNAH, Bth.—Cotton market depressed ;
fifties this day, 805 bales; sales of the week,
10,000 bales; stock in port, 80,000 bales.
CHARLESTON, Bth.—Sales this day, 2,000 bales ;
sad for the week, 19,000 bales, at a decline of lc.
vood middlings, 10ac. to 104 c.
TORONTO, Bth.—Flour and Wheat dull, decline
r•• Oats quiet, at 37c. to 39c. Pork quiet ; $6
") 36 50c.
Experienced very heavy gales from N.W.
coannencement of tlie voyage. Latter part fine
Weather, with light northerly wind. No ice at
John's, Newfoundland.

LONDON, Dec. 22.
The death of the Earl of Camperdown is an-
nounced. His eldest son, Viscount Duncan, M.P.
for Forfarshire, succeeds to the title.
The evidence in the charge of perjury, examined
by the lion. Hugh Rowley against his late wife,
was resumed to-day, at the Westminster Police
'-'ourt. At 5.30 the case was further adjourned
to Tuesday next. •
The rumour is confirmed that the wife of Mr.
M.P. for King's Lynn, has eloped with
Ile of the family domestics. Proceedings have
Ten commenced for a divorce. The lady has a
(*tune of half-a-million in her own right.
. The following appeared in a part of our
InlPression of yesterday

MAIL NEWS.
Supplemental mails by H.M.S. Urgent, will be made
11P for the Cape of Good Hope on Monday.
the
next is mail day for India and China, but
-44,e P
27 ostmaster-General is to be asked to alter it to
toe th.
LORD PALMERSTON.
:Lord
d„.._ Palmerston yesterday presided at an agricultural
1:40, er at Romsey, and distributed the prises to the
Tourers, whom he addressed at considerable length.
17-e made only one reference to public matters :—" The
41111,Y and navy were in a state of complete efficiency ;
tiltl„%if, unfortunately, it became necessary, they could
"t 1 be increased to whatever the emergency of the
Moment required."

CHRISTMAS.
Lloyd's will be closed at two o'clock on Monday next,
order of the committee.
The committee of bankers have sanctioned the closing
11 the Clearing-house on Monday next, for the last
"elivery of draughts, at two o'clock.
„_ The Times remarks, that the impediments English
rople suffer from official pedantries are strongly ex-
glinted in such cases as that of the holiday on Monday
ttrt. An amount of machinery has to be set in motion
Zia tiwould be sufficient to organise some valuable
olrtonal undertaking. All that is required is an order
uouncil legalising the day as a holiday, to set every
a at rest, and save all this waste of labour.
Tire,
EMPEROR NAPOLEON AND THE
POPEDOM.
Thy iMportant pamphlet has just appeared at Paris.
title Tznies has no doubt that it expresses in a most die-
te,:!,and perspicuous manner the views which are en-
jr-tned as to the future destiny of the Papacy by the
de,Peror himself. The misgovernment of the Papal
tkgioions is treated as something inveterate and inevi-
eo4l,_e• It is impossible for the same mind to entertain
''raporaneougy two sets of ideas absolutely contrary
to each other, arbitrarily unyielding and exclusive as
ti1a..14114 spiritual things, and liberal and tolerant as re-
tit "" temporal matters. These principles being laid down,
etl.,Writer.applies them logically to the present position
no
,ai
7trs. The Pope is not fit to govern a large state,A
• relleed, to Romagna erform any political duties ; and, there-
Roma should tbe restored to him. The
kil; cannot be a subject of any one, and, therefore, he
see.,."„be left in possession of Rome, rich in so many as-
- Itte"°ns. Such are the propositions attributed to the
gvror.
Lloeeting of the Iron Screw .Collier Company took
Wednesday-, to confirm, or otherwise, a proposition
bioferang their fleet of twelve vessels for £60,000. A
Was eventually determined upon.
s*".itYl .13tanss.—At the meeting of the Romsey La-
Isiirr, Association, Lord Palmerston in proposing the
pre 'east, said, I rise to do homage to that which may
lavittYii be said to be one of the wonders of modern
4,411 on. I mean " The Press." (Cheers.)- If any
„astit_eompares now a newspaper published in the last
4%7 With one of those wonderful sheets we read every
:40144.4 me contrast is the most striking that the mind of man
:11.431,_agine. The quantity of information, the talent
;Oh "nation, the amount of news of every 'kind which
'find in almost every newspaper we meet ;with
IthIZIY one of the most striking proofs of the progress
the .human intellect has made in the days in
;IthiriWe live. It may really be put in competition
trig 04eo steam engine and electric telegraph, but there
4111,,,_Part of the functions of the press which, beyond
114 kt —w• 11/ has improved of late years. I have .h.eard
.444 wards the end of the last century there was a
itttl hillubed Woodfall who used to publish debates ;
to th°A. did he do it? It is said, that he used to
Ilttstp, -gallery of the House of Commons. listen
. isvei •
%9 110 Y with his fate in his hands to what passed,
test b‘a3ee.drink two pots of porter, go to bed, get ,up.
kakss, -"„erli, bag, and from hisdreams and his recollections
Rowel' what he called a report of a debate (Cheers.)
/41nierft,a, so marvellous is the ability and so
fetse the rapidity with which the reporters take
the Qat 'men hay that if speakers are not; very caro-
tin havtePorters take clown what they had much better
:„ d• (Laughter.) I remember a very worthy
nsh M.P., Mr. Richard Keene, who once
jeitle-1 that the reporters in. the gallery had not done
~'`os ,—to a speech he had made the night before.
t.mtse
ci1.3.11'. he received had, perhaps, more of 4kit. hee"t itY in it, for it was—" Mr. Keene, we made
h,*ed aPeech we could for you, but, if you are not
`"tt What Our our endeavours, the next time we will re-
°l4ll~ 14' You do say—(loud laughter)—and,-whatever
thing of it, we suspect your ends will
laittW friends the infliction." (Laughter.) Now it is the urvoelloas to see the accuracy with which debates
t hes ettle;e of Commons are reported.. When the
41171, reciso"tch
„as a':e calculated to attract attention
Ntitl'ivar it .)- word for word as they are uttered,
te;`,”uelb possible for the human hand to follow
Ore— ilteP i dity and such exactness I am at a loss to
tim'ere ahorths once, as many others have done, began to
and, but I confess that I found out two
tge one-2 'which turned out to be quite insurmountable.
atog t be Was to write it---.(laughter)—and the next and
tk_.) read it when it -.vas written. (Loud laugh-
-47 Progg now to propose that institution to which
ress of civilisation and all the interests QQf the
fit are so deeply indebted, ".The Press." (Miters.)