Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-03-30 00:00:00

on news is not important this morning,
Herald declares the

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drive Austria to extremetles,
should, I think, be merely col

the ground

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and Russia to

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This feeling

n the light o:
it some time

how.

see the

who are determit
fic turn affairs have taken,
facts to point to in confirmation of their alarmist
Views, Russia has just prohibited the negotiation_

of the last Austrian loan throughout the empire ;
and the fact of the new Minister of Algeria, Oount
de Chassekup Laubat being a native of Piedmont—
he was born in 1805 at Alessandria, where his
father commanded the French garrisons, is tortured
into an anti-Austrian demonstration on the part of
France. Count Cavour is still in Paris. Every day
since Ms arrival he has been closeted for several
hours with the Emperor and with Count
Walewski." . - .

The foreign correspondence received during the
morning does not supply any fresh facts of interest,
but contains unauthenticated reports relating to
subiects which at present can only be matters of
surmise. The opinion seems to be more general,
that while Piedmont will have a seat at the Congress,
she will not have a vote; and that on the same
conditions many other Italian States will be heard.
Count Cavour, it is said, is very well satisfied with
the result of his visit to Paris, and it is therefore
inferred that the Imperial policy is, at the bottom,
warlike.

The usual fortnightly meeting of the Select
Vestry was held yesterday. A long discussion took
place upon a motion to transfer the Rev. Air. Holmes
from the Industrial Schools to the Workhouse,
during which the whole course of management at
the schools came under review, but the recommenda-
tion was rejected by a vote of nine to six.

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TRADE WITH JAPAN

NOTHING can be more important to a great trading
nation like ours, than to discover new and extended
fields for commercial intercourse. If, as it has been
well observed, " our fleets of merchantmen are so
many squadrons of floating shops, which vend our
wares and merchandise in all the markets of the
world, and find out chapinen under both

the tropics," their success in such an object
must be vastly promoted by the discovery of
new openings for their pursuit. Colonies certainly
furnish them, in process of time ; and our own
Colonial trade affords striking evidence of this. But
then it is often a dilatory, and a tedious process; and
were it all that such a commerce as ours had to look
to, outside its own domestic limits, it would
assuredly never satisfy, because it would never
sufficiently minister to, the necessities of such an age
of progress as the present. What are more
urgently wanting, are markets ready to hand,
to which commercial enterprise may not only
find easy access, but where it may meet with
communities both prepared to let it vend among
them our wares and merchandise, and to sell in
return their own productions. The recent opening
of an intercourse of this description with Japan is a
remarkable case in point. There they found a
people in a high state of civilisation—such as it is.
Very different, certainly, from our own —very
peculiar, very quaint, and very antique, to our
notions. Yet are they a people that 'have brought
many of the arts of civilised life to a state of great
perfection. And this circumstance, of itself,
were surely an encouraging one in forming their
acquaintance, since, on good authority, we are told,
that " art is nothing but the highest sagacity and
exertions of human nature ;" and, it is asked, " what
nature will he honour who honours not the human ?"
Besides, they are a people among whom also the
sciences are greatly esteemed ; and they have schools
in which some of the highest branches of knowledge
are taught. Their intellectual resources, it is true,
are contracted, because they have ever oc-
cupied so isolated a But the
must,

position

very intercourse now opened with them

in time, have the effect of

disadvantage

obviating this

Then, their country

is one of the

xichczt in the wu ld fur Its natural protluuts. There
is gold in abundance, and silver, and copper,—the
latter the main source of wealth in many provinces;
they cultivate sucoP--' 'otton, indigo, sugar,

fully rice

and spices ; the very rocks and other rugged places
produce a 17^-:- and roots; while

t variety of fruits, plant

the skill and industry of the people find the materials

for fine proce

lin, sill

ks, and other valuable fabrics

Such a country, and such a people, ought to be