Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-07-23 00:00:00

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pealed to on behalf of the spiritual concerns of the
benighted natives, we all recollect how he consigned

their souls to perdi

So, the Hudson's Bay Company'
reminded that the natives with whom they traded

tobaCteo

when

could scarcely keep together body and soul on the

,g commercial arrangements, had only

one reply—Let them bring our furs

carried on by a graduated scale of barter forcibly
and fair
imposed by the Company, in defiance of all equity
dealing. Did any unexpected. misfortune
befal the trade--did it suffer any
year, even from
faults of management—the natives were. made to
bear the burthen, and make up the deficiency from
their narrow earnings. So, even here too—not only
among the sultry plains of India—the name of Eng-
land was made to stink among the forests of the
North American Continent, and even to the north of
the Rocky
Mountains.

pletely

out not corn_
There is one p;entleman at least who must
aon give way .to a more competent successor, but
whose age must shield him from ' a severity of censure
which would be justly attributable to men of fewer
Pursuing. the same course of coodunf

head of inure than foursoore years of necessity commands
respect; but as public journalists we deal with men in their
rinblio'4trnilf4v. find •,

~.paco,y are we acquainted
with Mr. Smith than that of. a guardian for filo poor_
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[eh Was

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fit prominently before us
Ar_

Lay. The name o.

Gough in the celebrated affiliation case. 40 prosecutor of Mr. The public could
t
never specify exactly the reason why he took up this case,
which had .lready been investigated and decided'upon in
favour of Mr. Gough,—why.he spent an amount of money
in a 'public troseeution that would have supported the Chile for a considornblib

Lime, tnat now supportee h.
With this, hOweter,. we haves
nothing to do.d by
Weth areparis not
the advocates of Mr. Gough, only so far as it may be our
duty to shield a pnblie officer from au act of injustice. But
one thing is plain—that the worst possible understanding
exists between Mr. Smith as a guardian and Mr. Gough as
the Master of the Workhouse ; so much so, that on almost
every Board day he takes an opportunity of attacking this
officer with an energy that seems beyond his years. The
Pertinacity with which he clings to this, his darling topic,
and his incapacity of hearing what is said by other members
around him, protract the business beyond ordinary length.
:Nor is his antipathy confined •to Mr. Gough, but
it reaches those who do not feel theniselves called

FRANCE.
THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS BY
THE EMPEROR.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAM.)
PARTS FRIDAY.--The Monite contains the following:—
"The i— ur
mperor yesterday received the diplomatic corps.
The Papal Nuncio, speaking in the name of the diplomatic
corps, offered the Emperor his earliest and sincere congratu-
lation on his happy return, and on his resolution to conclude
peace. The Emperor, in reply, said, 'Europe was in gene-
ral so uo;,,

mu 1.4 L. mg UL ueginu or the war, that I was
ruiPPY at being enabled to ,conclude peace as soon as the
loholir and ivi4.04.0,4•0 , .

iiibcl Vnl,sVl r ran
hat it bad never been my into

ice were sa

to prove
•ope and

puovoke a 'general war. I hope to-day that all reasons
.or disunion will disappear, and that the peace will be: of
long duration. I thank the diplomatic corps for their con-
gratulations.' "-

PROPOSALS OFPRUSSIA MEDIATION
BERLIN,

4Aa
j ne Prussian Gazette mentions the
'el" Published by the Ifayence Gazette, of this day,
concerns Prussia,
respecting certain proposals of mediation made by the great
Powers, and declares that the communication, as far as it
is void of foundation.

TURKEY.
MARSEILLES, THURSDAY EVENING.-31. Kalfrgis, the
new ambassador of Greece at the Court of Paris, has ar-
rived at Constantinople...
'Advices have been received from Constantinople to the
13th inst. The Sultan has given up his projected journey
to Egypt.
The Journal (le aniBtantinople says that he will merely go
to the Dardanelles.
Private letters state that Bulgarian women have been car-
ried off by the Turks, and that the Bulgarian families arc
in great consternation.