Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-12-10 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET.—Dvc.,. 9.

At to-clay's market we have more_ inquiry for-general
runs of Wheat, bit more particularly for new Arteritan ;
on the whole a tolerable amount -of business has been
transacted.at the extreme rates of Tnesday last, and in
exceptional-instances,a fractional improvement has been
realised on the values of that. day. The trade in Flour
is quiet without alteration in priees.: —Beans are OA of
sale, and some lots of Egyptian have been sold at a trifle
less'money froth.the ship.. Oats and Oatmeal move.off
very slowly; the latter at .3d. per load reduction. Indian
Corn is less inquired for to-day, and any but the choice,
qualitieS are 'obtainable on rather easier terms.

ARRIVALS . AND EXPORTS

From the Eth to the Bth Dee

r, inclusiye

THE DAY'S NEWS

. By
.the latest intelligence we are informed of
some ftesh-lliffieulties experienced by the Aus-
trian Government in their attempt to carry Out
the 1014 promised reforms. It appears that the
Roman, Catholic population of the Tyrol, who
have generally been considered the most loyal
subjects of the empire, have expressed the greatest
indignation at the attempt of 'the Government to
place all the Christian professions on a footing
of equality% By ..the same telegram we learn
that the anxieties of the Court of Vienna are
further aggravated in the direction of Hungary,
where the pretensions ._of the Constitutional
party _ are said to be increasing. It is re-
ported that they demand not only the re-
storation of their Constitution, but a guarantee
from the great Powers for its maintenance. We
cannot but think that the .present threatened
insurrection in Hungary is only a part of a deep
laid plot by the Emperor Napoleon; in order" that
during the meeting of the Congress, this diffi-
culty of a probable war of nationality in, those
priiVinces of the Austrian Empire, might so much
embarrass the position of the' House of Haps-
bi.F`g, that .the conditions of the peace of Villa-
franca should not be inconveniently pressed upon
him. •

The Paris Univers,—the organ of the Ultra-
montanists,—insists that the reforms called for
by the Liberal party in the States of the
Church, are wholly inconsistent with the main-
tenance of the proper dignity and authority of
the,Pope. It may be the that Popes have never
succeeded as reformers, and, probably, never-will.
The predilections of the disciples of Ignatius
Loyola, and Francis Xavier, have always been
opposed to anything like encroachments upon
established institutions, and still more so to
popular and revolutionary theories. Perhaps
the principles of the Jesuits may prove as
troublesome to those who would interfere with
the temporal authority of the Pope—the present
Emperor of the French included, as they did
to. >Napoleon the First, who was Compelled by
considerations of policy to expel them from his
kingdom.

We learn that the Budget of France for 1860,
has just been allocated: The total amount- is in
round numbers seventy-three millions, sterling.
• .
A sum of aboVe thirteen'anda-harf millions is set
aside for the department of war, nearly five
millions for the marine, and nearly thirty mil-
lions for the finance department: ',The expendi-
ture of the Government of •France, under the
reign of the present Emperor of the Freneh, does
not appear to press less heavily upon the people,
than it did under the rule of the House of Bour-
bon. The amount set down for the armaments
of the country. accord entirely, in the greatness of
their amount, with that which might be ex-
pected from the antecedents of the Napoleonic
dynasty. -Does not such a warlike fact 'suffi-
ciently- justify the universal - Volunteer. move-
ment at present.so active in' this country. •

• The Volunteer movement, we are happy to
observe, continues to progress. It will be ob-
served that Messrs. Trueman, the great brewers,
have agreed to pay the expenses of a Rifle
Corps in their very extensive establishment; and
the staff of the Eastern Counties Railway are
likely to form another very numerous corps—the
preliminary meeting having been attended by
500 men. Notwithstanding the professions of
peace and goodwill which have of late- been so
markedly made in certain quarters, we have not
seen in them an assurance that would justify
us in any degree in arresting the loyal and
patriotic goodwill which has characterised this
movement in the country.
We have pleasure in directing attention to
Professor. Houghton's fourth letter on the tidal
currents in the Channel, which appears in our
columns to-day. The subject is one of deep,
indeed of paramount importance, to a maritime
community like that -of Liverpool. It will be
seen that this great authority upon tidal currents
proposes to give at least another communication,
in which tabular details will explain and corro-
borate the practical inferences he wishes to be
'drawn from his interesting remarks.

The ball given last night by the first company
of the Lancashire Volunteer Rifles, in St. George's
Hall, was eminently successful. It would have
.been singular indeed had the result been other-
wise. The proceeds were to be devoted in aid of
the funds of the Royal Infirmary, and of the
Northern and Southern Hospitals. This of itself
was sufficient to ensure a large attendance of the
Liverpobl fashionables, and when the great
popularity of the volunteer movement, and par-
ticularly that of the Rifle Brigade, is taken into
account, it cannot be !natter of surprise that a
brilliant as well as numerous assemblage graced'
St. George's Hall. Upwards of fourteen hundred