The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-03-13 00:00:00

attentively observed the policy of the Times will have
remarked that, as regards the true interests of the country,
a marvellous consistency has invariably been preserved.
And this, in reality, is the s uree of this great success and
vast influence, We have, on several occasions, stated that
the virulence of party feeling, as it -was displayed before
the great political and financial changes consequent upon
the Reform Act, and upon the policy of Sir Robert
Peel, gave the public mind some repose, has now
nearly entirely died out ; and no greater proof of this
can be adduced than the complete decay of London
Tory Journalism ; and the decline, too, of those Liberal
journa's that fight for men merely, and not for measures.
Thus, on the Whig side, we have the Morning Chronicle,
once famous under Perry, and at the head of the London
press. It has passed through many hands, and is now
dragging out a very sickly ex'stence. The Morning _Post,
on the other band; was High Church and HiAr Tory, and
the organ of fashionable life) but even its devotion to its
man-milliner connection, could not cireulate its politics ;
and some years ago it passed into the hands of Messrs.
Crompton, the paper manufaeurers. It is now a sap-
porter of Lord Palmerston's Government. The
Morning Advertiser don not enter into a comparison
with its cotemporaries, as it is maintained by the
Licensed Victuallers for a charitable ohjoet. The Daily
News is not in the bonds of its original proprietors ; and
When it raised its price to 51, its circulation fell from
3,500,638, in 1848, to 1,375,000 in 1849. With the fa'l
of the Morning Herald and Standard, there will not remain
one organ cf old Tory politics among the London dailies ;
while the Times circulates more than the entire daily press
put together. In 1838 the circulation of the Times was
9,800 a day ; in 1850 it had increased to upwards of
38,000 daily; while every other daily paper has decreased,
and the returns, could we obtain them for 1856,
would show even more remarkable results. All the Pro-
tectionist journals have declined, and the startling fact is
before us. that, save the Morning Herald and the Standard,
there is not now a representative of Tory principles among
the London diurnals. Such a fact speaks volumes for the
decadence of old party feeling, and yet the country is not
the less rational or the less enlightened in upholding its
institutions—in conserving with jealous care whatever is
worthy of being conserved.—Belfast Mercury.

We are authorised by Lord Panmore to state that the
„ssertion made by Commissary• General Filder, in a pamphlet
recently published by him, that Col. Tulloch, when sent out
to the Crimea, carried with him a commission to supersede
Mr. Filder as Commissary-General of the army, is without
foundation. C )lonel Talloch was armed with no commis-
sion to supersede any officer, and could have bad no personal
object to attain by the removal of Mr. Filder from his office.
—Daily News.

THE WAR DEM.—Since the sth of April, 1854, there
has been public stock created in Three per Cent. Consols
to the amount of £30,265,116. This sum is composed of
three loans of £16,000,000. £5,000,000, and £5,000,000
respectively, and by the funding of Exchequer Bilk and
in payment of money received in lieu of bills to the amount
of £3,333,250. The total received by the Treasury, in
cash and bills, was £29,002,186, or £1,262,930 less than
the stock created. The amount of Terminable Amenities,
created under the Act which authorised the loan of
£16,000,000 (which expires on the sth April, 1865) is
£116,000, the money value of which, at the present price
of Consols, is £2,184,345, and the equivalent in Consols is
£2,337,249 The amount of Exchequer B Ils outstanding
on the 25th of February, 1857, was 1.21,049,70, being an
excess as compared with sth April 1854, of £5,041,000.
The total amount of Exchequer Bonds now outstanding is
£7,000,000, all of which must be paid off by the Bth Novena.
ber, 1860, in yearly payments of £2,000,000 ; the balance
in the Exchequer on the Ist January, 1857, was £6,942,428
exceeding by £4,163.930 the balance on the sth April

1854, The stock standing to the account of the Savings,
Bank (commissioners for reduction of the National Debt)
in April, 1854, was £31,220,677 ; Exchequer Bills
£550,000; total £31,770,677 ; in January, 1857, stocks
£24,926,
.584; Exchequer Bills and Bonls, £7,385,000;
total £32,311, 584.

CHINESE IN AUSTRALIA.—It will searc-ly be believed
that there are at present no less than 40,000 Chinese
located in different parts of the colony of Victoria, and
chiefly employed in seeking for gold at the various gold
fields. They are generally under chiefs, or " headsmen,"
until they can repay their advances, for, being mostly of
the poorer classes, they are supplied with a passage and
necessaries by their Heber countrymen. When the advance
is paid up, they are free to do as they please, ald as they
are generally successful, they are very soon enabled to
realise independence. As they and the other diggers do
not agree very well, they generally get located in a spot by
themselves, and work in companies. To obtain gold is the
only object the Chinese have in coming to Australia. They
do not intend to settle in the country, but as soon as they
have made their " pile," they return to China to enjoy the
fruits of their industry. It is truly astonishing the
quantities they contrive to pick up, as evinced by the
entries at the Custom house, which, however, do not
represent the whole of their gains—the ingenuity of the
Chinaman enabling him to carry off considerable quantities
unrecorded and untaxed.—Australian and New Zealand
Gazette.

ACCIDENT TO MR. CHARLES M'lvEa.—A correspondent,
writing from Valetta, Malta, under the date of the sth inst.,
says :—" I regret to state that an accident hae occurred to
Mr. Charles M•lver, one of the principal proprietors in the
Canard Steam shipping Company. A pony kicked him on
the arm, fracturing his elbow, and causing a severe con-
tusion."

THE ARCHBISHOP OF DUBLIN.—INTBUSION OF BIBLICAL
Paseoamts.—We have been credibly informed that, on
Saturday last, the Rev. Messrs. M'Carthy, Rogers, and
Vicars, agents to the Church Missionary Society fn. Ire-
land, had the bad taste, without any previous notification
whatsoever, to intrude themselves iu a body into the pri-
vate residence of his Grace the Archbishop of Dublin, Dr.
Cullen. His Grace at the time being absent from home,
found them, on his return, standing in the hall, engaged in
conversation with his servant. One of these unbidden
visitors hereupon accosted his grace, and stated that their
object was to demand from him an explanation of certain
passages in his recent Lenten pastoral. The archbishop,
finding himself thus rudely interrogated, before he would
reply to any question, at once enquired —" Pray, who are
you?" One of the visitors replied that he was the Rev.
Mr. M'Carthy, Secretary to the Irish Church Missions, end
that the others were the Rev. Messrs. Rogers and Vicars.
His grace then said he would enter into no discussion with
them, but desired them to forward in writing whatever they
had to say. " Will you, then, undertake," rejoined the
Rev. Mr. M., "to reply to our encpiry ? " His grace
observed—" 1 will make no such promise, nor shall I hold
any communication with persons who placard our streets
with offensive calumnies against the Catholic religion, and
openly violate one of God's commandments—' Thou shalt
not bear false witness against thy neighbour.' " The
archbishop then cut short the interview, by requesting his
servant to show these visitors to the door. On this un-
seemly transaction we will make but one remark : What
would be the feelings of Archbishop Whately if three
Catholic priests had the effrontery to intrude, in a body,
upon his privacy, and, uninvited and unauthorised, to cate-
chise him upon the subject matter of one of his charges ?
Freeman's Journal.

THE LAW LAGGING, BUT SURE.—The Supreme Court
of Ohio has just decided that James Simmons, who mur-
dered two members of his father's family by poison, should
be hanged. Simmons was tried and convicted for the
offence ten years ago, but owing to some alleged informality
was never sentenced.