Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-02-09 00:00:00

THE DAY'S NEWS

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The absorbing topic of the day is still the Em-
peror's Speech, and it is somewhat remarkable
that the favourable feeling produced by the first
impressions has gradually given way to more
gloomy forebodings. Not only in Paris, but also
in London, has there arisen a strong feeling
that the document lacks that openness
and candour necessary to ensure confidence
in the' future. Coupled with this, the
reported activity of France in warlike
preparations tends to increase the feeling of
alarm which prevails. The Paris correspondent
of the Times telegraphs, that a private telegram
:rum Algaenrit, dated-7th instant, announces that
the 23rd
were Regiments of the line, and Bth
Chasseurs
day for Marseilles,
I commence embarking on that
embark the 41st and 56th Regi-
ments were to
during the following week.
The Paris correspondent
of the Globe, writing
on Monday night says, the
conclusion of all who
heard the Emperors speech i
s, that if justice is
not done in Italy by the poofwer holding the
adverse possession the writ
inejectmcnt will be
issued and enforced by 400,000
Diplomacy
will avail nothing, just the stubborn
he
man who, having brooded over then 'owasilel,
is in the
worked himself into a conviction that oafnda
right, will see it out.
The Paris correspondent of the Daily ATe uo.
sass
writes still more gloomily. He :L....“ Tho-
Emperor's speech will have spread consternation
in every capital in Europe. It is by far the most
alarming symptom of a coming storm that has
been seen in modern times. Not only does it dis-
appoint the hopes' of those who within the last
forty-eight hours have been encouraged by official
hints to believe that it would be decidedly pacific,
but apart from the expression of a bare and matter-
-of-course hope that the peace will not be broken—
an expression which, in the Imperial mouth, signi-
• fies nothing more than it did in the confessedly,
alarming speeches of Lord Derby and Mr. Disraeli
—there is not a• syllabic in the discourse tending to

contradict or explain away any one of the gronnds
of just apprehension which have pre-occupied the
public mind since January Ist. But what is more
serious still, the speech openly preaches th•
doctrine of universal intervention, and sets at
naught alike the advice of friendly foreign powers
and the opinions, wishes, and interests of the
French peopk. A despotic monarch at the head
of the most powerful military nation in Europe—
who, eight years ago, was raised to the throne
by universal suffrage, aided by a success-
ful conspiracy and the unscrupulous use of
bayonets—now tells his people and the world
that his nation has " confided y its destinies"

his individual will ; that he sits on an
elevation far above the regions of " vulgar
interests ;" that he makes no account of the present
generation, and accepts the jurisdiction of no
tribunals I:aat those whose judgments are either
secret or to be made manifest in futurity—" God,
his conscience, and posterity r Doctrines more
frightful than these have never been proclaimed
from any throne. As long as they remain in the
ascendant in France the peace of Europe can never
be assnred, and the curse of large standing armies
and ruinous military preparations must con-
tinue to paralyse commerce and thwart political
progress."

"'The Neapolitan government," says a letter from
Vienna in the Cologne Gazette, "has drawn up a
document in which it explains minutely the
situation of Italy. This document, it is said, has
been communicated to several Italian govern-
ments, and to the Cabinets of St. Petersburg and
Vienna."

Advices from Naples mention that King Bomba
has become again seriously ill.
A Berlin letter, of the sth, states that her
Majesty Queen Victoria, the Emperor of Russia,
the Queen of Prussia, the Grand Duke of Weimar,
and the Princess 'Charles of Prussia will be the
godfathers and godmothers of the infant prince..
Captain Pullen's ulterior surveys have con-
firmed him in the opinion that the Red Sea offers
no difficulties whatever to the successful submer-
gence of a telegraphic cable. He has sounded the
mid-channel from Suez to Perim, and finds the
bottom soft mud from Suez to Jebal Teer, but
rock from thence to Perim. The greatest depth
on this line is 1,050 fathoms. He has also
sounded the whole extent of the sea inshore and
within the reefs on the eastern side, and the same
from Suez to Suakin, on the western side. He is
now anxious to complete the survey on this line
from Suakin to Perim, as he judges that to be
by far the preferable route, the bottom through-
out being much more even, and the soundings
considerably less.

The Glasgow Daily Mail mentions that a deputa-
tion of the Licensed Victuallers is about to proceed to
London for the purpose of urging upon Parlia-
ment the necessity of an inquiry into the existing
grievances of the trade, and to suggest the nature
of the remedies which ought to be, adopted. A
petition, signed by upwards of 900 members of
the spirit trade, calling for inquiry, is about to be
forwarded to Robert Dalglish, Esq., M.P., for
presentation to the House of Commons. Similar
petitions, we understand, are about to be forwarded
from Edinburgh, Stirling, Perth, Dundee, Aber-
deen, Kilmarnock, Paisley, and other of the
principal towns in Scotland.
Both houses of Parliament had short sittings
last night, the House of Lords having risen at
half-past six, and the Commons at half-past seven
o'clock. In the Lords a discussion took place
on the propriety of giving the Royal assent
to the Jamaica Immigration Act recently passed.
In the Commons a new writ was ordered for
Ennipkillen, and also for Greenwich. In reply to
Sir George Cornewall Lewis, the Chancellor
of the Exchequer stated that £7,600,000 of
Exchequer Bills had recently been funded
on account of savings' banks. Mr. Ewart
moved a resolution, that the House should not sit
after twelve o'clock on Tuesday's and Friday's, but
on a division it was lost by a vote of 137 to 28.
Sir J. Trelawney obtained leave to bring in a bill
for the abolition of church-rates.

Locally there is no news of importance this
morning.

The steamer Armenian, with the African mails,
arrived in the Mersey
.yesterday, with 2,300
ounces of gold. Her advices report the death of
King Eyo, of Old Calabar.

MR. GLADSTONE AND HIS lONIAN
MISSION.

IT by no means follows, that because Mr. GLAD-
STONE has not succeeded in reconciling the lonians
to their present position, and dissuaded them from
their desire of being incorporated with Greece, he
has failed in his mission. He did not, it seems,
undertake to do what it is said he has fallen short
of doing. It were not likely, indeed, that he
would engage in any thing not only so problem-
atical as to its success, but so officious as an act of
interference. They are, it is true, under the
Protectorate of the British Government. But
they are so, not for British but for European
interests. And however mistaken they may be as
to the advantages they anticipate frcim their being
annexed to the Greek , nation, it is neither

unnatural nor unreasonable that, with so much in
their character, their connections, and their
situation, that is Grecian, they should prefer to
cast in their lot with the Greeks. The fact of the
lonian Parliament having unanimously declared
for union with Greece, attests the general and
deep-rooted feeling that prevails upon the subject,
and shows how impossible it would have been to
turn them from their purpose—had such really
been the object Mr. GLADSTONE had in view. All
he could do, and all he attempted to do, in the
case, was to advise them that their resolution was
contrary to the Constitution, and to suggest that
a Committee be merely empowered to address a
petition to her Majesty Queen VICTORIA,—which
they have done; and given it to Mr. GLADSTONE,

with the request, that their desire for union with
Greece may be laid before the Great Powers who

THE NORTHERN TIES= VEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1859

moderate as to be ineffectual. To be Conservative
it must be comprehensive—only keeping justly
and fairly within the limits of the Constitution ;
and it cannot, be sufficiently comprehensive, unless
it is really operative for the object in view,—the
securing a full, free, and fair representation of the
people. This, , then, is the great point on which
unanimity is so desirable. And certainly, as a
great moralist has truly said, • "an honest party
of men acting with unanimity, are of infinitely
greater consequence than the -same party aiming
at the same ends by different views,"—a remark
the force of which becomes irresistible if we regard
all true and constitutional Reformers as constituting
such a party.