Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-06-15 00:00:00

THE NEW MINISTRY.

The following is stated—though we give it with all
reserve—to be the probable distribution of the principal
offices of the new administration :
First Lord of the Treasury
Lord Chancellor
Lord Privy Seal

Lord Palmerston
Sir R. Bethell.

Earl Granville,

Foreign Office
Chancellor of the Exchequer
Home Office
Colonies ........
First Lord of the Admiralty

Lord John Russell.
Mr. Gltzdstone.
Mr Milner Gibson
Lord Elgin.
Duke of Somerset.

War Department
President of the Board of Trade

Mr. Sidney Herbert
Mr. Cobden.

Secretary for India
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster—Hr. Cowper.

...., ,
Judge Advocate
First Commissioner of Works Sir B. Hall.
Postmaster-General Lord Stanley of Alderley.
President of the Council Lord' Broughton. '
Lord Chamberlain Marquis of Breadalbane.
Lord Steward
Master of the Horse Duke of Wellington.
President of the Poor Law Board Mr. Cardwell.
Attorney-General Sir B. Reating.
Solicitor. General Mr. Collier.
Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland Earl of Carlisle.
Chief Secretary
Attorney-General . Mr. J. D. Fitzgerald.
Solicitor-General

Joint Secretaries to the Treasury .. Sir- G W Hayter
Mr. am; s Wilson.
Home Under Secretary Mr. Headlatn.
Foreign Under Secretary The Earl of Ripon.
Colonial Under Secretary
Secretary to the Admiralty Sir John Ranzsden.
We hear that Sir James Graham, the Duke of Newcastle,
and the Duke of Argyll, have severally declined to join the

new government,

THE FORTHCOMING MINISTERIAL ELECTIONS.
_THREATENED'• OPPOSITION TO LORD JOHN

RUSSELL IN THE CITY,

It was stated in quarters likely to be well informed, that
in the event of Lord J. Russell taking part in the new
administration, and going to the City for re-election; a
strenuous opposition will be made by the Conservatives to
prevent his return. The candidate pitched upon to bring
forward in the Conservative interest is Mr. Stuart Wortley,
the rejected of the West Riding, and as this gentleman filled
the office of Recorder of the City of London prior to his
appointment as Solicitor-General under Lord Palmerston's
former administration, it is thought that his chances of
success will be greater than those of any other available:
candidate under present circumstances. Whether the right
hon. gentleman will really be brought forward is, of course,
a matter of some uncertainty; but there can be no doubt as
to the fact that the chances of success are now being nicely
weighed among the leading electioneering Conservatives of
the City, who bear small love either towards a• Palmerston
or a Russell administration, and would be glad to set off
their defeat in the House of Commons against the rej

of Lord John by the City constituency.—Express.

eetion

Tun Impoar or ENGLISH Booxs rwro Cmokan..—The
recent proceeding of the Canadian Legislature in taxing the
import of Eaglish books is taken withunaccountable apathy
by our press. It may he thought a, publishers' and book-
sellers' question merely, and not worth words about. It
certainly is a matter interesting, to, publishers, curtailing,
as it clops, our demands from the. Canadian provinces at
least one-half, and threatening to deprive us of the market.‘.
altogether. But if it affects publishers, it does so the best
interests of literatUre, and, as. it seems. to us, involves also a
great question of right of a colony to thus injure home trade.
It is no light matter that, as publishers, we find ourselves
deprived, without auy warning, of a market for our books
to an extent of at least £4,040 a year, a market that
was yearly improving, and one that we naturally
regarded as to be depended upon. We use the word
deprived, for the imposition oomplamed of has that effect.
The impost is not one for the benefit of the colonial revenue,
or we might bear it ; it is not merely a hindrance and
restriction to our export trade, but in a great part it
amounts to a prohibition, causing to be substituted for the
regular demand a supply of cheap reprints from the adjoin-
ing States. The measure greatly aggravates the injustice
hitherto suffered by English authors from the admission of
reprints into Canada ; for whilst books under this
objectionable tariff will have to pay 10 per cent, United
States pamphlets and magazines are admitted free, offering
facilities, not to the most respectable and desirable of the
United States reprints, which now, we are glad to acknow-
ledge, mostly yield some little benefit to the English author,
but toi the cheapest and meanest kinds of reprints issued by
American houses who avoid paying the author anything.
It will actually promote rival reprints of this class. In
short, the tariff in question would appear ingeniously. con.
meted by an enemy so as to benefit no one,, only setting a
bad example to the English colonies to prevent the &nglish
export of English books. - Pubkhori,