Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-07-25 00:00:00

3avaria without saluting

Russian and Sardinian Alinisters alone. One of his
gestures was that of frequently placing his hand on
the hilt of his sword. The public, on reading the
speech this morning, considered the first sentence to
betray rancour against the neutral 'Powers'; and

the second, an opinion that the peace will not last
long ; otherwise, they say, a monarch who had just
concluded a peace would do more than express a bare
hope that it might be of long► duration. This ap-
pears to me too refined criticism.

. With respect to diplomatic movement_-,
that M. Peruzzi has already arrived in Paris. We
hear Piedirant wily nert send a representative to
Zurich. This has a grave meaning. 'At all events
Baron de .Bourqueney has engaged the Rotel Baur at
Zurich. Count Walewski remains all day long with
the Emperor at St. 'Cloud. General Kalergi, the
new Greek Ambassador atthe Court of the Tuilieries,
is expected to reach -Paris to-day.

we karn

The Board of Trade returns have just been issued;
and show the total declared value • of the etpdatts for
_ _

ending

une, as £1065,891

1857: For the six thdriths the results are a'4 follow's
58, X 53,467,804 ; and 1857

£60,826,381

A singular'ease came before the Deputy .Coroner
on Saturday. An inquest' was held on the body of a
child found in the canal, and, a woman was charged
with having Stolen the child,—that Charge resting
on the evidence of a lad aged nine years, whO stated
that a woman, with a "yellow face,' lifted the lad
up, and ran.off with him down Conway:street.' The
child, was found. the same afternoon In the canal.
The jury returned a verdict of murder by some
person or persons unknown. The woman denies all
knowledge of the child, and is at prestent retained in
custody.

IT is a mistake to suppose that Finance isisuch a
prosy topic. On the contrary, there is none which
seems to afford a field for higher flights of imagina-
tion, which is charged with more tremendous inter-

ests, which involves,a greater amount of uncertainty
and vicissitude, which calls up more romantic visions,
and leads, with the usual fate of sublunary matters,

to a gloomier vista of promises broken and hopes dis-

appointed. Whatever may belong to your mere

items of 'account, your dot and carry one, your vulgar

s. d."

on paper, there is poetry, in the very

sound of.millions, conjuring up the ►olden vision of
some possible El Dorado or Golconda. Your modern
Chancellor of the Exchequer is the most dreamy,

•
hopeful being in the world. When he enlarges on
his official theme, his lips drop honey ; and when he

gets on to his hobby-horse, he flourishes the reins and

cracks his whip with as free a hand as Pheton's
in the Chariot. of the Sun, —too often with a reck-
lessness portending as disastrous a fall. Nothing can
exceed the liberality with which he scatters his

promises, thb ease with`which his :projected taxes ure
to be raised, the princely revenue which a judicious
change can produce without adding to the pressure
on the. people, and above all, the great and perma-
nent advantage to be secured by it, and the ultimate
relief which looms in.the' distance

The nriiseliiek is,

that the accomplishment of, all these fine things is
always relegated to the future. We shall see, what
Next Ye'ar-We are to berelieved from

we shat see

this impost, and an important commodity from that
duty ; the issue of the-present measures will lead to
the ushering in of a new era which will produce

great financial changes; and, unless some unfore-

seen accident occurs=

whieh of course no one