Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-10-21 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL WOOL MARKET..

In their circular of the 20th instant, Messrs. Hughes
and Ronald say :—" At the public sales yesterday, 628
bales._ Port Philip and Sydney. Wools were disposed of,
which.met with brisk competition, at, an advance of id.
to id. per pound on the closing rates of the• last London
sales. 180 bales fine River Plate were offered ; the
greater part was withdrawn. 84 bales were sold at
from 61d. to 2s. lid. per lb. 1,350 sheets. English were
afterwards brought forward, most of which sold at
prices about the same as at last sales. The sales of
East India began to-day, consisting of 1501 bales, and
as far'as they have proceeded,fprices are quite equal to
our last July sales.'

LONDON PRODUCE MARKET.--Ocr. 20.

SUGAR.-The market remains steady ; the public
sales of foreign are going off without showing any
material alteration in prices. Refined lumps remain
quoted 48s. to 508.
COFFEE.—This article is dull of sale, and prices are
with difficulty supported. A floating cargo of 3,000
bags Rio sold at 51s. 6d.
TrA.—This article continues very dull of sale.
RlCE.—Rangoon of low quality, say 5,000 bags, sold
at 6s. 9d.
PEPPER.—A decline of 0. per lb. was fully estab-
lished on Singapore in public sale.
Corrox.—No sales reported.

INDIGO (SIXTH DAY).—The sales to-day consisted
chiefly of urpahs and dry leaf Madras. The good
qualities fit for export sold with fair spirit at 4d. to 6d.
advance ; low and ordinary descriptions went drearily at
par to 3d. advance, a large portion being bought in.
Bengals went off without alteration. 1,628 chests have
passed the auction to-day, of which 369 were withdrawn,
and 410 bought in, leaving 749 chests sold.

LONDON CORN AVERAGES.
The following are the averages for the week eating

THE DAY'S NEWS..

The treaty of peace; founded on the•conventiim
of'Villafranca, has been signed at-Zhrieli-, by-the
plenipotentiaries of France and Austri'a,. and
now only awaits ratification by their respective
Governments. Its details, or at, all{ events,. an
outline of them, will be -found in our .latest news-

Notwithstanding the: denials of the Chinese
officials, respecting the outrage inthe POihoy. and
the versions of it favourable to the Chinese which
some of our own off cers. have givens. it is. said
,her Majesty's Government, is now satisfied that
;it was a predetermined' scheme to defeat the
!treaty of Tien-Tsing.. If this. be, so, there can
be no doubt of the necessity of•convineir* kg the
Chinese Emperor that European, ftwers are not
to be tricked in this. way, or treated otherwise
than the laws of nations.clemanct.

We give an account elsewhere of a very inter-
esting proceeding WY Stalybridge, on Tuesday, the
object of which was to promote the erection of a
monument in Tochnorden to the memory of the
late John Fielder, who represented the borough
of Oldham for some time in Parliament,
—more particularly with the view of
commemorating the exertions of that benevolent
gentleman in promoting the ten hours factory bill.
Among the speakers on the occasion was the
well-known and highly respected—among the
operative classes especially—Mr. Richard Oastlqr,
who is described as having delivered an energetic
address in support of the object. Mr. Pielden
was one of Mr. Oastler's most intimate personal
friends, and one who did more to encourage and
support him in his exertions for the improvement
of the factory hands, than probably any other
manufacturer, either in Lancashire or Yorkshire.
It is gratifying to see the working classes them-
selves so readily and enthusiastically engaging in
the promotion of a monument of gratitude and
respect to one who was, undoubtedly, their
benefactor.

Spain and Morocco, it is now believed, are set-
tling their disputes in an amicable manner. The
Moors had doubtless begun to see that even
Spaniards were not to be trifled with ; more espe-
cially as their cause was one which was sure to
secure the sympathies of civilised Europe.
The General Quarter Sessions of the Peace for

the borough oommenced yesterday, before Gilbert
Henderson, Esq., the ReCorder. The number of
prisoners to be tried was ninety-six, of whom
sixteen had their cases tried and decided yester-
day. None of the cases contained in the calendar
present any features of particular interest.
At the ordinary meeting of the Mersey Docks
and Harbour Board, the discussion on the Land-
ing-stages, specially set down for consideration at
that meeting, :was postponed, on account of the
illness of Mr. John Laird.

The ward elections have at last begun to stir
public attention. Contests are now organized in
several of the wards; but, judging from the state
of the register, as well as from the fixed resolu-
tion of the Conservatives, the conflict does not
seem doubtful, and certainly should not, if the
Conservative electors do their duty. Numerous
"good men and true" are now in the field; and if
the constituencies do not take steps to mark their
partialities, as well as to assert and sustain their
rights, they will soon have no rights to sustain.
We have, to-day, news from America through
three channels; but the items of intelligence
which we glean from the various newspapers are
unimportant. The San Juan question appears
to be losing its interest, even with the
Americans; and little or no allusion is now made
to the subject. The authorities of the United
States have at length taken steps for the
prevention of those disgraceful marauding or fili-
bustering expeditions, whfch have so frequently
set out from American territory ; and it is with
no small degree of satisfaction that we notice t 1 e
arrest, under government orders, of the members
of the recently organised expedition under
Walker, The much boasted superiority of
United States cricketers over' those of any
other • country, has sustained an over-
powering refutation •in the great international
match which has been played.- The Eleven
of All England beat easily-- double their
number of Canadians at 'Montreal ; and now
they have done the same, and in even a
more•decisive manner, with the twenty-two Yaw-
kees at' New York. The " Britisliers,' in their•
first innings,.scoredi 156, while the Aintricans, hr
two innings, only 92,—leaving;the forntcw
victors in one. 'with-64 runs ttospare:•
At the weekly meeting of the Health Commit-
tee, yesterday, somewhat about the u,tral amount'
of business was transacted ; but, as mi*hthave.
been expected, the opportunity was seized' fOr-
making electioneering capital, by one ,xt least of'
the members,..pending; the ordeal of tifekfirst: of
November.-

THE interfrence with our approachhig:manii-'
cipal elections by that little knot of noisy-Radi—.
eals, who style thmnselves " The Mverpooli
Reform Club',"; has already been incidentally
noticed in these colamnsi. but, on lookingmgain.
at their reccueraanifeato—with which they have.
so plentifullyplacardedi the walls of the: town—
. there are onibi two points,: it haS occurrecho us,
which may notimproperty be made the7subject-,
of a few pas3ing-comments,
Now, in the .first- place,. for any such id nto as
this, to. presume to. dictate, to the electors- what'
they are to ch,,iSi,we 'cannot but think, a piece of
meddlesomeness‘whieh•ouOt to defeat--7and we
feel pretty sure will dileat—its own purpose..
What reason there couht possibly be to suppose,.
that the Real:eels who Compose that Citab have.
more virtue, as munioipat electors, or as .citizens
generally, than-their neighbours, it wouldrhe
fieult to imagine: .Antlyet they evidently presume.
to lecture the electoranody-, as though the: Club.
was composeclioipersonsaifinitely superiorito them
in character and, attainments! They tat .!themi..l
for instance,. that- since. considerations .of:hig.l.t.
import give great value- to the municipal
" it will istamp.:the.electors with chagrace
"from fear, orrfavouri.or reward, they gii,e2 theiiv
"votes to any.-eandidatn.whom they do not eonscien?-:
" tiously bellive to)be.the best fitted todischarge•
" these greek tmsts. with, purity, integrity,,modo,
" ation, and! jtistieco7:—the great trusts, , thatr
which are- involmedi the duty of dealing, with
the property of' the, ratepayers, andi regulating
the locals. taxatiOul of the borough-,;. But-what
right ha,Aaany sualk clique as this Radit,al:Rsiblits
Club, toh wetenct that they are more,likely- to, be
"free fteralthe- 411Sgrace' of votinggfer.candidates
" whoutithey dU not conscientiously.-belieue to be
"the best fitt to discharge thwelmeatr trusts"
than the rest et the electors ? The. very- suppo-
sition). that they were themselves, *Jeer than
()them from the suspicion of being; influenced by.
mtworthy motives, is of itself' a piece• of most .1
of most intolerable pae.o:umptiou.

Again,. they talk of assiiiting Ow electors " in
".estimating the importanee.of.a proper discharge
"•o€ their electoral functiOns."' Why, we ask,
should they pretend to fie• better qualified to esti-
mate any such importance• than► the electors them;.
selves,—or, at any rate,• than that large body of
the electors, who are, no• doubt, so much better
qualified to form such an estimate, than they have
any right to pretend to be ? To tell such eleettars,
their superiors, we repeat, in all that constitutes
the virtuous and intelligent eitizen,—to tell them,
not to "barter away" their electoral privileges "for
" low and unworthy considerations," implying
thereby, of course, that they are too excellent in all
that is pure and high principled to have to do with
such "barter" in any shape, political or other-
wise ; this, we say, is another pieee of insuffer-
able presumption, and one which, we have no
doubt, the electors will treat with the contempt
it deserves.

And then it is not only their presumption and
impertinence that is to be complained of, but
their gross inconsistency and insincerity. For
instance, they tell the electors, in order to "assist
" them in estimating the importance of a proper
discharge of their electoral functions," that

" no person should be elected an Alderman whc
" has not a seat in the Council, and who, by hit:
"'manner of discharging his duties t1:21.e, has
" acquired the general approval and confidence of
" his fellow citizens." And yet, if we mistake
not, it was a delegation of this very Reform Club

which waited, the other day, upon our much
respected fellow townsman, Mr. WILLIAM BROWN,
to propose to him, although he has no. seat in
the. Council, that he not may "should be elected
" an Alderman," but in due, course be elevated
to the mayoralty also ! It is only, they pretend;.
any one's services in the Council which can afford
just ground for his election as an Alderman,—in
'their own words, as " an acknowledgment of his
" proved ability and fitness for such dnties." Mr.
BROWN, however, had no such "services" to re-
fer to,—he was without anything of the • kind to
furnish "an acknowledgment of his proved abi-
lity and fitness for such duties." And yet would
this Reform Club have dragged that venerable
gentleman from his sacred retirement, and forced
him into an Aldermanic chair,—nay, into the
arduous position of the Chief*Magistrate himself,
—just because they thought they could claim
him as one of their own political party!
The hollowness, then, of all these professions
of the Reform Club, no less than the audacity
of their intrusion on the electors, i 4: too apparent"
to entitle them to the slightest' attention in
any_ quarter. .. We have no doui3t _ourselves,
'that the` municipal' electors, or the „great bcdy
of them; will do their duty at tile ensuing
elections.- But should they, or any' of them,
need to be "'assisted in estimating the finpor-
" tance of a proper discharge of their electoral.
"functions,'" such assistance, they may lie well
.assured, must be obtailred froni some purer and
better source than the Liverpool Reform Club; if
it is to be of'any avail in' securing the advantage
of a rightly-constituted' and sound-printiged
Town Council for the borough.

IT is a hard- thing, just when our hopeS lave.
reached the highest, a sure and skilful ~frain•
been laid, and' a: successful issue counted upon:
with well-grounded confidence, to be baulke&lY
a mere accident. This is, iir some measure, the
position of the ecinservative electors of Evertma"
Ward. The requisition to Mr_ HUBBACK had '
been supported by-six hundred• names, represent= -
ing a large proportion of the' intelligence and
,respectability oPthe whole Ward.. Meetings Ina!
:been held nightlof a most enthusiastic charae,--
? ter, and attendeditrk the weig,htiest and best mew.
". among the eleoinrs; and influential persons wha
-.are not given torbe over sanguine-, boasted that'
victory was more than probable:. It cannot,.
;therefore, be but with great' regret that our•
readers will leara/of the intervention of a formal
,but quite insuperable obstacle.: . Mr:. HUBBACK
' not on the registor:. Having retired some time
ago. from commercial pursuits,* and. not living
within 'The borough,. he. 'has -not- been careful to
look after his municipal privilegpi. though still
retaining a small! office for the • transaction of
charitable and °titer business. Thia.is,. no doubt,.
grave disappointment. We- will; confess to our
, opponents that owe; have sufferedj from a chance
obstacle, a far heavier discouragement than any
that their most-tactive zeal or • their bitterest
animosity could inflict. But we, are happy to
say it is:by no means itremediabl.nrc is it, likely
to remain long without a remedy.:-. The healthy:.
an& earnest feeling that has beem evoked in the,
Ward, though unexpectedly chrated of the first,
object of its . regard, has another in viewy
'and., we confidentrbelieve, Will;still escape disapr.
pointrnent. One• thing is certain: the Conse•t.
vMhe spokesmen and leaders, are determined
not to let the- matter rest for one hour ; aml•
:the game is 34111' their own, provided they plals.
it with promptitude and judgpent..

The present-municipal crisis, and. the way it
'! been met in theErerton andairkdale Ward, sag-,
gest one or two useful considtrations. First, 0.;:m0...i
eessity of thwinoment is to-take:care. that nothing
be done to ',tower the tone aif our. local parliament.:
To prevent? such a declemi.On),. is of peculiar; ink,
portance to, the Conservative.• cause; for ittis
the regioneof high social...l-virtue, and the repeta-
tion such virtue seaures, that ConseryatisnAd
most tkwiV.cs.. Our extreautopponents are aware of
this, anditherefore, on thonational stage, are even..l
now apjteang to all tire worthlessness awl ,igno—
ranceotthe country ttboverawe the Constitutiom-1
ohs:ow:A, the legislate 0.. Moreover, easkstep in
. deter,ioration, insures, au increased speedt in; the.
dcmilaward course ; as, the average of intelligence.
andi social respectability in the Couneit:Chaznberi.;
drops to a lower leve4the improbabßity increases,
tbat a new leave/11101 be infused,. There Dave
not been wanting, signs of late years, that this
period of decleneion was bringing..„.itself em. The
I, reluctance of many among our leading merchants
to court municipal honours, or even. to adniit that
they were honourable, has been, a not unfrequent
cause .of grgive apprehension to., keen observers of
the forms; et. our public at.. We may depend
upon it,, that when pubic. offices cease to be
looked upon. as prizes lay- the citizens of a State,

the work of decay has begun, and the self-cancel-
ling process of democracy is not far off. The
necessity this involves was well looked to by our
Everton and Kirkdale friends. Their choice fell
upon a man of universal repute high standing,
and even exalted virtue, one of those
rare spirits whom every one looks up to,
distinguished for an unwearied philanthropy, and
who, having done good all his life, would "blush
"to find it fame." Such a man and the Council
pdoo-sihtioonnoutor
wt to eachch
virtuousother.
citizenship
The
one
i s attains the
entitled
the other is made worthy to be the testimony
and reward of virtuous citizenship.

The other lesson is, that no ad captandum