Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-01-12 00:00:00

Thligdfiy, January 12, 111801-

in reference to any deficiency -which might :lead-. 40—
increased import duties.

RAILWAY MARKET.

-There was a general want of animation in the market
yesterday. Nearly all the leading stocks were quoted
lower:

The Daily 'News says, it is rumoured that the
forthcbming dividend on the ordinary stock of the Great
NISI-them Riilway Company will be at the rate of 7 to
7t per cent. per annum.

THE PAPAL STATES.
LETTER OF THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON
TO THE' POPE.

PAIqS, Jan. 11.

The M9niteur publishes the speech:addressed
by the Pope to General Goyon, and says, ." We.
belieVe that this allocution would not 'have been:
pronounded had the Pope received the letter sent
by the Emperor on the 31st December."
The Moniteur publishes this letter, which says :
" Among the 'great reasons which induce me to
conclude peace ?must be reckoned the fear that the
revolution would assume larger proportions. If
the Pope, accordingto my demand, had consented
to an administrative separation of the Romagna,.
and to the nomination .of a lay governor, those
provinces would have returned (renree) to his
authority: Unfortunately, the
.Pot•ef would not do
it, and I have been poWerleiS to arrest the esta-
blishment of the new rule. The Congress will
be assembled, the Powers will not deny the incon-
testable rights of"the Pope over the Legations ;
nevertheless they , probably will think it better
not to have recourse to violence for subduing
them, becanse it would be necessary to again
necupy the Legations by military for a long time,
and this occupation would keep-up hatred and
illwill among the Italians, and would perpetuate
irritation, uneasiness, and fears. ',,1 ' •
I. believe that the solUtion most suited to the ,
interests of the Holy See would be to make a
sacrifice of the revolted provinces. .'". •
"If the Pope for the tranquility of 'Europe
would renounce those provinces, which for fifty.
years have created• so much trouble to his govern-
mer;f, the powers would guarantee the possession
of the remainder of the States of the Church.
" I do not doubt that order would be immedia-
tely re-established: The Pope would insure to
grateful Italy peace during many years, and to
himself the peaceful possession of the States of the
Church."

The Emperor then recalls his devotedness to
the Catholic religion and to the Pope, and con-
cludes thus

" I have expressed without reserve my thoughts
before the Congress is assembled; butt I request
your Holiness to believe that its decision will in
no Way alter the line 'ilf conduct I have always
observed towards yoUr Hilliness."

THE POPE'S SPEECH 10 THE FRENCH

GENERAL.

-On New Year's Day, General Goyon,. the Com-
mander-in-Chief of the French army in Rome,.
presented the officers of the division of occupation
to the Pope, and addressed his Holiness asTollows:
" Most, Holy,, Father,—:We come once . again
With the mine ardour to prostrate ouiselves at'
the foot of your double. throne of Sovereign POn-
tiff and of King, and 'to bring to it the expression-
and assurance of our profound respect-and entire
devotinn:, • :• " •

"If the great events-of the past :year have not
given us' our share of the glory upon the field of
battle, We,.have been able to. eongole oirselvei
with the thought that we were on the field' of
honour of Catholici.stn.

"Deign to, receive, Most Holy Father, the
sentiments of my brave and, noble subordinates;
of whom I am at this moment the interpreter."
The Pope replied in the French language and
extemporaneously. He said:.
" In the last few years which have glided away,
it' was a subject of consolation, but in this
year it is' for me 'a double. subject of con-
solation, to see the French army take 'part in
the exceptional position of the States of the
Church. The assurances of the devotion and
of the love of this army are also a great source
of consolation. invoke the bless:llgs of the
good God upon the portion of the army which is
here, and the whole. army which is in the French
empire. But, proitrate, I pray the good ,God
to bless the generous French nation ; I prostrate
myself at the feet of the God of Mercy, who
is and will be for ever, and ask Him to
load with graces and knowledge the chief of
that nation ; that courage may be given him
to condemn those perverse . principles which
cannot :be in harmony with the chnrch,' and,
which are a monument of hypocrisy and ,of
ignoble contradictions. I hope—nay lam wrong
—I am persuaded that the Emperor will receive
light from God to condemn those-principles. I
may add that I have some for Mer documents in
my hand which were sent me by him, and which
are in contradiction to those principles. With
this assurance, I am convinced, and, with this
condition, I bless him' I bless his august coin:
panion, the Imperial Prince, and the entire
nation."

The Paris correspondent of the Herald pro-
fesses to give -a tolerably correct version of the
reply given by the Pope to the. New Year's-day
deputations of General de Goyon. The Pope, in
reply, stated that he sincerely rejoiced at the
expression.of goodwill and devotion on the part
of the gallant sons of France. The more so, as
such demonstrations were now but seldom paid
him. In fact, rather the reverse was the case.
He had been much pained of late, and by nothing
so much as by a pamphlet lately published in
Paris, in which it was proposed to plunder the
patrimony of St. Peter.. This pamphlet was said
to be the expression of the Emperor's views.
His Holiness, for one, never would believe so
audacious a calumny. He had documents in his
possession which proved the real feeling of Napo-
leon 111, for the Church, and showed him to be
deserving of his title of eldest son of the Church.
To revert to this pamphlet, however ; it had
filled his heart with bitterness ; and his Holiness
added, it was a monument of hypocrisy and an
ignoble tissue of contradictions.,

F It has been stated that M. Thiers had it in contem-
rlMion to publish a pamphlet in favour of the temporal
p 0 of the Popd. The idea, however, is simply to
reprint in the 'form of a pamphlet the report of M.
Thiers to the Legislative Assembly in 1849 on the
subject of the expedition to Rome..
ACCIDENT AT A MENAGERIE.-011 Saturday, during
a morning performance at Manders's menagerie, now
-being exhibited in Norwich, one of the lions, who had
perhaps, been touched in a tender place by the whip
of Maccomo, the African who. performs what is termed
a lion hunt, made a spring at him, and, sending his
teeth through the boot of the keeper's leg, fixed
them deep in the flesh. Nothing daunted by
the suddenness of the attack, Maccomo struck the
beast upon the head with the 'butt end of
his carbine, until, rendered half insensible, it released
its hold. Since then the lion has been sulky, and on
Monday made a second snap at Maccomo ; this time,
however, without any other result than to draw upon
itself a severe chastisement, administered by the clenched
fist of the keeper, who sat upon the lion's prostrate body,
after he had seized and thrown it down, The spectators
on both occasions were much alarmed, but the African
himself treats lht whole affair with the greatest non-
chalance,