Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-01-30 00:00:00

ITALY.

The Tuscan Government has issued a decree abolish-
lug tithes and enacting that the persons entitled to
env shall receive an equivalent ' from the public
treasury

COMMERCIAL.
Common congou' has advanced fully- Id. during the
Reek,, owing to the trade showing great anxiety to in-
crease their stock.
The new commercial system in France is expected to
trades between
impetus to vessels in the coal and iron,
es between the two ;countries.
theln colonial -
produce _market there has been less
activity during the present week, partly. from,the
Peet.
ation of a further advance in the Bank tate.
ni Ile Times says, the tonnage loading from London
tone,n for China, India, and Australasia, exceeds 100,000
altos' 445,000 of which are for-Calcutta. At Liverpool,
havgether, there are 29,000 toni. These large figures
derietited the effect of lowering rates, and causingconsi-
eontir,„ Stagnation,: especially as' the homeward Tails
to bring bad accounts of return freights.

RAILWAYS.
The
railway traffic .of the United Kingdom, far the
Week ending January 21st, shows an increase of £35,670
over the same week of last year.
The eireetors of the North-Eastern. Railway recom-
Inend a dividend of 53 on Berwick stock, 43 on York
Stock) and 21' on Leeds stock.
The Directors of the Stockton and Darlington Rail-
vtaY recommend a dividend at therate of 9 per cent. for
the
past half-year, making 91 per cent for 1859,.

The day mails to 'the north are to be accelerated
after February Ist
The Post says there is no truth in the report of the
French army in Italy being about to be increased.
The Times cannot believe in the possibility of the
annexation of Savoy to France. It would be contrary
to treaty and unworthy of the dignity of the Emperor.
The .2Vorthern Bee, published at St. Petersburg, con-
tains an article on China, in which it endeavours to
prove that the English Government has been unjust
towards the Celestial Empire on more than one occasion.
The manufacture of 12-pounder guns, at Woolwich,
has been this week increased from 20, the weekly ratio,
o 45. Arrangements are in progress for making a num-
ber of 25:pounders, which will be commenced as the
reqUisite implements are prepared.

LATEST FROM AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE ARABIA.

The British and North American Royal Mail
steam ship Arabia, Captain Stone, arrived in the
Mersey last night from New York, whence she
sailed on Wednesday, the 18th instant. The
Arabia brought forty-three passengers, a large
cargo, and the usual mails, beSides $182,936 in
specie on freight.
The Cunard (s.s) Jura, arrived at New York on
the 16th.

The present arrival, although five days later
than that which we had last week, shows that no
d-ogress had been made in relieving the state
ifficulty of organising the House of Representa-
tives by the election a Speaker. The thirty-
third ballot for that appointment took place on
the 11th with a result not more conclusive than
the first. It was followed by 4 protracted series
of harangues, which occupied the succeeding
days up to the 17th, in the course of which no-
thing was done, the whole time having been
taken up in personal defences and explanations.
The state of legislative feeling, and the politi-
cal bias of parties may be gathered in some,
though a very imperfect degree, from the follow-
g observation, which appears in the Washing-
ton correspondence of the Nig, York Herald,
under -date of Jan. 12:-
- A GENERAL FLARE-UP IN THE HOUSE.
Beelzebub was let loose in the House to-day,
In consequence of the sight of a pistol. The
Idnicle crack of an instrument during the excite-
ment would have resulted in a bloody scene,
°reefing not only the' life of men, but also of the
nation. It is believed that most of the members
of. the House go to their daily duties with deadly
Weapons, as men go to battle. For a few me-
meats the scene on the floor was unparalleled.
The click of pistols was distinctly heard, the most
angry words were uttered, and the wildest pas-
ticn, displayed. The appearance of the Sergeant-
at-Arms, with his uplifted mace, crying Order !
gentlemen, order !' brought harmony out of chaos.
° disgraceful was the scene that members have
bean heard to regret that a free press existed to
Publish the facts.
vet,he political bearings of the case in dispute
4„1,'. be in some measure comprehended from the
ec,'"Jeined extract from the Herald relative to the
riENCEMENT OF THE PRESIDENTIAL CANVASS.
0 rom our correspondence, and other reliable
thli!ces, we learn that preliminary operations for
ba: canvass of 1860 have already been com-
-41,-„,nced• The bloody black republicans
ai„' flooding Pennsylvania, Illinois, Wiscon-
,,;,, and New Jersey, with their documents,
heu as the infamous Helper-book. They
one is
"Y means of these publications to secure the
thrtrul States, and elect Seward or some one of
same stripe of politics. It is part of their
plane that while the circulation of their docu-
'
11 "ts is increased and }opt up with unre-

!miffing vigo.nr, their leaders in Congress shall
be utterly-silent: Their committee: Tha.s the
%work to do, and is doing it with a degree of
industry worthy .of .better cause. Before. next
spring, all the Central States will be flooded
with abolition documents. the meantime the
democrats hereabouts are doing nothing. They
are enjoying the federal- and municipal spoils,
and seem to think they will last for ever. They
are as drunken, men,
.gorged with the fleshpots
of .Egypt, arid offering an easy prey to the
enemy. They walk on the edge of a precipice
as coolly as they would 'promenade in Broadway.
It is not difficult to, foresee the result of such a
state of things as this. ,
- Under date the 16th of January we have the
following intimation of
• A NEW FILIBUSTER :MOVEMENT.
Information was received here ' to-day that
thirty-five hundred men are now in New Orleans
ready to en,ibark-for-Vera Cruz. They go out as
immigrants, and will be received into citizenship
by the Juarez, or Liberal Government, when they
will be mustered into service under American
officers, such as Generals Ring and Wheat, and
will sustain that government until the Senate
ratifies the M'Lane treaty, which they expect
will be speedily done. 'The leaders of these
immigrants expect, , for the aid they will afford
the liberals, to obtain the renewal of the grant
for a railroad from Aransas Bay to IVlazatlan in
, the Gulf of California, and agree to pay for it the
sum of ten thousand dollars. The original charter
was granted under Santa Anna. They have
assurances that one hundred thousand dollars of
the Cuban fund raised smile years since will be,
appropriated to defray the expenses of the expe-
dition ; and report says that Lord Lyons is of
opinion that they will have no trouble about rais-
ing funds in England to complete. their railroad
enterprise, if the APLane treaty is ratified by the
Senate. The emigrants about to embark from
New Orleans agree to remain and engage as la-
bourers in constructing the aforesaid' railroad ;
and at the same time will 'be recognised as a mili-
tary .organisation for their own protection, and
the.proteetion of the country through which they
pass.