Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-10-01 00:00:00

'went of the " Aniericak 'Minister by- the Chines

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c, caey may be, to the hope of any
strange mediate 'nendly diplomatic intercourse with thai
that as :14Ple,
the
t certainly afford reason to believe,
as the Government of France, we shall hair(
that At

tted States; in alliance with us in the

"gnrous efforts that -must now be made to obtain
redress for recent outrages, and to secure a sight
standing for the future. The American
Ambassador
and his suite were conveyed to the capital in a sort of
cage or box, some sixteen feet long and nine feet broad,
closed in on all sides, and having only some openings at
the top`-to prevent, we suppose, their being smothered
outright. After this ig-nominioas fashion, in this vile
encasement, were they towed up the river on a raft.
trpon landing near Pekin, -their, cage was placed upon a
truck,, and drawn by oxen into the city, where they
Were still detained, in " durance vile" of another sort,
after having been " uncaged" for the purpose. Surely
an indignity like this to suffered by his Government Ambassador will never be
ever cost. to go unredressed, at what-

The Continental rumours are more puzzling than
ever. Many of them, as we have already had occasion
to notice, were without any foundation whatever ; and
. now it seems that one of the most important of them
all, namely, that respecting the approaching Congress
at Brussels, has no other ground to rest upon than the
fact of his Belgian Majesty being a visitor at Biarritz,—
. "not, however, as is now -pofiitively serted, with any
Object connected with the Italian questasiou, but only one
regarding the large debt due from Belgium to France,
the immediate payment of which has been insisted
upon. We are therefore still at sea as to the course
which events are likely to take for the adjustment of
the Italian difficulty. The opinion is beginning
to
prtvail on the Continent, that a renewal of the war is
becoming more and more probable ; some late rumours,
iudeed, are to the effect that military preparations have
Au +
alreadY commenced, both by the Piedmontese and
ai • ,-. san uovernments.
The Gloucester Election Commission, which has
lbeen
ilt
work nearly all the week, is extracting a arget
as to the e p
amount of very striking evidence °
ed
practices in Which the
...
Election. It has been
80 extensively at the last General Elec •
immaculate Liberals indulged
to be
~. an oft-repeated, though "lever established charge
against the Carlton- Club; that money was always .
obtained there for any kind of corrupt purposelec-
be necessary to carry the day for the Tories, at any e
though
which might
tion• This, we say, has often been asserted,
witkout anything but the merest and
to support it. But
ant body is the
not so, now, the pec
Reform Club • •
, for it is in evidence before this commission,
vaguest suspicion
that thatgreat head-quarters of the Liberals has not only
its fund to draw upon for the purposes of bribery and
cozuption, whenever necessary, but its regular corps of
and qualified perso to
approPriate thee, •
go
the most economical ad°'sltn a manner at once
generally take a special name ;1141' These gentlemen
into the country
Jorat,
likaneother, and Robin-
for instance, at one place, for the occasion—Brown,
son at a third. They have,
, ho
owseovme other inge-
nious gentlemen,—better known
_not
onler,aat the Old
Whesnystem of
Bailey than the Reform Club,
aliases, but of watchwords ; as, for instancey
'was wanted, it was described as " medicine" that Illonetyo
be sent ; "draught to be repeated" was, it appears was
5 a very
oclinary prescription on such occasions. Altogether, the