Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-10-28 00:00:00

CORK CORN MARKET.-OCTOBER 27.

White Wheat at 225. to 265. 6d. ; Red at 225. to
245. 3d. Barley at 12s. 6d. to 16s. Oats at 10s. 4d.
to 13s.

GLASGOW CATTLE MARKET.—OCTOBER 27.
A much larger supply of all sorts of stock at market
than for some weeks back ; consequently, trade is ex-
tremely dull, and prices very much lower than Thursday.
At the close, a large number remained unsold. 1,086
Cattle, and 8,114 Sheep at market.

It is said that at Kilmarnock several revivalists, con-
science-stricken for having been so wicked as to in-
dulge in the reading of Burns's poems and Shakspere's
plays, have committed their copies of these works to the
flames.

THE CHATRMAMSIIIP OF THE WEST KENT QUARTER
SESSIONS.--At the Kent general sessions, on Tuesday,
the Earl of Romney announced his intention of resign-
ing his office as chairman of the quarter sessions, which
he has held for a considerable number of years. The
29th November was fixed for the holding of a spe;ial
court to appoint a successor, who, however, has not yet
been named.
THE LORD RECTORSHIP OF GLASGOW UNIVERSITY.
A meeting of the Independent Union of the Glasgow
University was held on Monday night in Jack's Coffee-
house, Canon-street, Glasgow; Mr. James Christie, M.A.,
president of the Union, in the chair. This meeting was
well attended by students from all sections of the college,
and they unanimously agreed to nominate for the rec-
torship the Right Hon. the Earl of Elgin.
BRIDEFEWATER ELECTION EXPENSES.—The election
auditor has just issued his official statement of the ex-
penses incurred by the four candidates at the recent elec-
tion for this borough. The total expense incurred by
Colonel Tynte, M.P. is set down at £205 19s. 5d., and
the total cost incurred by Mr. A. W. Kinglake, M.P., is
reported to be £l9B Bs. 11d. The defeated candidates,
Messrs. Padwick and Westropp, figure conjointly for
£154 7s. 7d. The chief items of the expenditure are
legal assistance and printing.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1859.

THE DAY'S NEWS.

Things are evidently coming to ,a crisis in
Naples. They who can best judge of the state
of public feeling among the Neapolitans are of
opinion, it seems, that according to all human
calculation, a rising of the people, before long, is
inevitable. Taking advantage of the prevalent
disaffection, Garribaldi has addressed a procla-
mation to them,—a copy of which appeared in
our later edition of yesterday,—in which he tells
them that during the recent conflict with Austria,
the shout of victory was heard in every dialect
except theirs, and yet he knew their hearts beat
high in the cause of the country." But now, it
is to be inferred, that a triumphant shout is to be
uttered by the Neapolitans, as well as other
Italians,—at any rate, it will be no fault of Gar-
ribaldi's if it is not so.
Prince Napoleon, who was in Liverpool last
week, has been visiting Portsmouth, in his steam
yacht, after having cruised along the coast,—
doubtless making all due observations of the state
of our coast defences ; for, although, his Imperial
Highness seemed so indifferent about inspecting
anything at Liverpool, there is no doubt, but that
both he and his naval and military companions,
have their eyes open, and are gathering up all
requisite information, for some future occasion.

We continue to receive most dismal accounts
of the effects of the late storm, on different
parts of our coasts ; but they are all thrown
into the shade by the dreadful calamity at,
Malpa,—the loss of the Royal Charter, and the'
tremendous sacrifice of life involved in so fearful'
a catastrophe. We furnish to-day all the parti-
culars we could obtain, up to a late hour last
night, of this most awful shipwreck. Some of
these details were given, in fragments, . in our
later editions of yesterday. The information now
collected, places it beyond all doubt that the ill-
faled ship had been driven upon the rocks during
the height of the gale ; and one may reasonably
conclude she had become utterly unmanageable,
even by the skilful nautical hands by which she
was directed and worked. - Only twenty-five or
thirty, out of at least four hundred on board, are
supposed to be saved. It is long since we have
had to deplore a shipwreck, in our own neigh-
bourhood, involving so great a loss of life.
Conspicuous among the local topics of the day
is the present unseemly contest for the represen-
tation in the Town Council of St. Peter's Ward. In
this case, by a dashing assumption, and presuming
on the absence of Mr. James Holme, the pseudo-
liberal party circulated a report that, from failing
health and other causes, Mr. Holme intended to
relinquish his seat at the Council Board. They
did more than this, however,—on the strength of
this assumed resignation, they induced a gentle-
man to come forward as a candidate. The sub-
te,tfuge on which Mr. Beloe was induced to come
forward was dispelled :by the address of Mr.
Holme, again placing himself in the hands of the
electors ; but this was not liberally interpreted in
the Liberal camp, and thecandidature of Mr. Beloe
was persWed in. - Last night's meeting, however,

fully reported in our columns, 'delays in uxanis-
iskeableterms the truknature the case,—under
the circumstances a contest' it should not be
called,—and, without doubt, on Tuesday after-
noon, Mr. James •Holmel_ friends, with his per-
mission, will show- that relinquishing attention
to the interests of the ward and of the town, was
no part of his or their intention.

CONSERVATISM, it cannot be denied, is looking up
throughout the country. Two days ago we'gave
a reason why this should be but the fulfilment
of a natural expectation. The heart of the
country is yet with the Constitution. The ap-
pearance of confidence and strength displayed by
a noisy section of extreme Liberals, is not justi-
fied by, the real advance of democratic influence ;
but is the result of accidental party disorganisa-
tion, and even the distraction of personal anti-
pathies. But these technical disarrangements,
and these childish prejudices, are in their very
nature transitory, and must be inevitably re-
paired
in the contests of a great cause. Because
'the personal claims of two great orators cannot
be adjusted, because the Peelites worship the
memory of their master, and have a paltry and
unpatriotic distaste for an alliance with those
yyhose criticism was harsh, but at the time was
justifiable, surely,we have not lost so much-faith
in the vigour and promise of our Institutions,, as
to conclude that democracy is inevitable ? One
thing is certain, the only plea under which the
greater number of the followers of the late Sir
ROBERT PEEL challenge the support of their diffe-
rent constituencies, is that of the Constitutionalism
which distinguished their great leader, and which,
we cannot doubt, had he been spared to his country,
would have found him at this day its most
strenuous advocate and defender. The Liberalism
which Peelites indulge in with a characteristic
vagueness, is taken by the country as a new
fashioned guise' under which the old sentiment
of Conservative progress deprecates the criticism
of their new Radical associates. There is a secret
conviction abroad, that when the struggle really
comes, these traditional supporters of Constitu-
tional principles will throw themselves into the
gap along with those natural allies whom they
ought never to have deserted. But though this
is all very well as showing that the present
doubtful and transitional position which Peelite3
have assumed, does not denote any real declen-
sion in the great cause, it is not sufficient to
justify Peelites themselves, nor to secure any
longer the favourable consideration of Conserva-
tives. The time is coming when these borderers,
these wanderers of the "free lance" sort, these
soldiers of fortune, must give up their airy tac-
tics. They must either quit the arena altogether,
or take their place in the lists. At present they
interfere with the combatants, and confuse the
judgment of the spectators. It is an ungracious
office, too, they have chosen. They fight without
encouragement, and win without honour. They
provoke a double resentment in their enemies of the
moment ; and their assistance reaps no gratitude
from momentary allies. They must be bidden,
petere honestam dinzis.sione in, while a decent re-
tirement is at all possible, or to choose their side
in the strife, and let their trumpet give a certain
sound. Nothing could well be more amazing
than the silent, matter-of-fact, natural, and ex-
pected way in which the Peelites seemed to res-
pond to the recent arrangements of a Liberal
Ministry.. Could men believe that Mr. GLAD-.
STONE had become an ally-that is a cautious
and tentative ally—of Mr. BRIGHT ? Is he
really in his place at the same council-board with
Mr. MILNER' GIBSON, or Mr. COBDEN ? Is he
prepared' for the small beginning of that demc-
cratic policy which Mr. BRIGHT, avows himself
willing to bring on by little and little ? Lord
JOHN RUSSELL we know is so. He talks Consti-
tutionalism in the recess, and we do not -doulet he
would act it in Parliament, if he were not buoyed
up with the secret conviction that in any case the
Constitution will last his time ; and that it makes
little difference to himself and the present gene-
ration, even though marked political changes
should be laying the seeds of a republic for our
children. We know, then, that Lord JOHN
RUSSELL is, for the sake of political Power,
coqUetting with Mr. BRIGHT, whose policy is
intentionally, though not at present con-
structively, democratic. But are Messrs.
mGeLaAnDlSyTOgNiEv,ingand placeH E
tRoB EtßhTe
s, e and
dang Ce
rAoRu
sD W Ea LT.
ungainly arts, to set off and give a point to
personal jealousies, and rivalries, and resentments.
No one supposes that these men have reached,
-by a fast descending process, the very bottom, or
next to the bottom, of the political scale. No
one suspects that they would of their awn mere.
motion, for a moment encourage by a dissembled
advocacy, or a hesitating criticism, or a sugges-
tion of future compliance, the dangerous presump-
tion of our incipient democrats. How is it, then,
that they manage to 'enact this perversity, or
phantasy, or trick, or sham, or whatever it be,
without provoking any marked surprise from the
country, or to all appearance startling 'their Old
adherents ? The truth is, people have begun to
think such a sham as this the natural result' of
recent' party confusions, and to take for granted
that things will right themselves in time ; and
Peelites be found patriotic in presence of a' great
crisis, should it supervene. But let the country
be assured, that the true and effective way of
preserving the Constitution is by keeping
this
crisis a long way off. The political, like the moral
destiny, is not a matter of mathematical calcula-
tion, or measure by line and rule. Neither States
nor individuals can safely trust themselves to the
ing them to the brink, in
impulse which is dragg
a vain confidence that they know the last point
where equilibrium can be preserved. The man
who offers a half-hearted opposition to the ene-
mies of a Constitution, is the most dangerous

OCIOBER 8, 1859

enemy it possesses. For he lulls to rest the
apprehensions of the timid, and supersedes the
exertions of the sincere, while his treacherous
defence facilitates attack and makes breaches
whiCh invite the entrance, and concentrate tEe
vigour of ,the assailants.

In nothing will the party of the Constitntion-
show its present strength more, than by bringing
this sham to a point, and placing face to face va-
cillating Peelites and their hereditary principles'
We look forward to to-morrow's denionstration
for renewed' encouragement, in the conviction
that this strength is entrusted to efficient instru-
ments, ready to wield it with tact and confidence'

ONE cannot wonder that the Radicals should 1°
afraid of the influence of the Derby Banquet oft
the Municipal Elections ; but it is a very weak in-
vention of the 'enemy to pretend, as they are
doing,-that thii great demonstration.of Constitu-
tional feeling, has been got up with any view
whatever to such an occasion. The fact is, that
the precise time, of its 'manifestation was alto'
w
gether a matter of accident. It might have
taken place some weeks ago ; or it might 10
have been convenient for it to take place for sore
weeks to,ecizit.7-But'Saturday the 29th hapPened
to be the day that was found most suitable to the
convenience of those whose engagements bad'
naturally, to be,consulted in the arrangements tbr
such a-meeting. .
One Of. the orators of St. Anne's Ward, °n
Wednesday evening, is reported to have observed'
that " it was expected the presence of the ;teat
"Chief of the Conservative party in Liverpool'
," on Saturday next, would confound the Liberal`'
" and that, if they found themselves in
i 4 tenee .at all, on Monday next, they must be
a thankful to the leniency of LORD DERBY for it.
" No doubt," he added, affecting to be facetious fer
the nonce, "their Tory_ friends thought this 5
"glorious movement, and one that would blol
" them to atoms, so that they could not possibly
" face their opponents at the poll : he believed'
" however, they would find themselves Ivofnill
" mistaken." Now this, being interpreted, clearly
means, that they are afraid of the beneficial effect
which the great Conservative Banquet of Saturd°l
is likely to produce on the public mind of Licerci
pool. And no wonder that the Liberals sb°l/1
entertain such a fear. Doubtless, it is "a glorious
move," to have so imposing a Conservati't
demonstration in such a town as Liverpool'
any time. But that it is "a glorious move," wit
any reference whatever to the Municipal Elections'
we repeat, is an idea utterly without foundatie°
We are far from expecting;ourselves, whatever r
the Radicals may expect, that " the presence °f
the great Chief of the Conservative party
Liverpool, on Saturday, will confound the
Liberals." No,—Liberals are made r
of sterner
stuff than that. Liberalism is too 11311::d
1
impenetrable an -encasement of inadg T6'l. al
nature, to be easily " confounded," ecc,
by the force of truth, and high public
principle. It would be well were it otherwise,:
It would be a national blessing, were the Liberec
more open to conviction than unhappily they are'
But this we believe—that, while upon the 0r 4
stubborn Liberals our great Chief, the noble 9:oa
who is to be so honourably entertained
Saturday, may not produce any effect beY°'„
making them " hide their diminished 118/15:iie
yet, upon the people of 'Liverpool generil,"-dea
will not fail to make a most favourable and

Thernn,distinguished
b,ebgeFe,elivp,
pretrilhrlepaleysaec
sirte est faytcnaake:cti
amongst
:ovtbo,
pinoefynag
susresrpttauitthanliltogt 1
sh:hens,
what was
townawphelfltioahnutl political
rneeidLecacepereometrlsrnefdodoston
demonstration:
:El:.
viani
is
sii:tsniii tiocor:::::. ,
0:::tei t
jaillo :If
impression. -
itosanklleoyli
,
themT.rhi
very elite of our mercantile community. The
4
i tRa
with him in her Majesty's councils, a 13°-its
men engaged in commercial and other Pt
of of active enterprise and industry, such as el)
Andnot possibly be brought together in any s-
jtaj
demonstration in support of the Liberal Cause: tke
when this is considered, how mendacious is 0 of
remark of a partisan writer in the col
ercil'
that
one of our Liberal contemporaries, of Test t
'
with reference to the Municipal Election ,chief
he ~cannot understand how it is, that the a 0
"local power and authority, are now centre
oyesl,
"the smallest, and in every respect the Ice -o
,t-
-,,,. c
"of the opposing political parties." 11°1' that
pletely, we say, does not such a Banquet 35
50
which will come off, with so much glerYcioo
honour, to-morrow,—give the lie to so multi very
an assertion as this ? " The smallest, and in e. .01
poll°
~ respect the weakest, of the opposing
iiich,tir
"parties," forsooth ! Why, it is a party w P
as the
be truly described, ought to be spoken °i
artf
~;,
largest and the strongest of any Pu",
as they
amongst us. The " Great Liberal Part',
tio of
call it, is made up of a corabill3 ,000
various separate parties or factions' eV'
of them composed - of most conflietier,
~,a,
Cofferments, and only uniting to oppose that alit'
Coffer
tism which they alike dread, because the.a de'
feel its resistance of their disorgarrisiu a alto'
structive machinations. But take then
retr ty,'
gether,—even as the " Great Liberal 0,,i0,
wftoalliri:phutbhaslaict, aafnwodrhorlees for intelijc:thia
ever?rttiotls
in short, that can constitute good and very
pteheetyabicliotnys,titute,---w.ea,,,eace,
citizenship, the Conservatives, as a party' older
loeai "
far out-weigh them. That " the chief 011 it
privateo virtue, for
boro~t'
• the
" and authority" of so important a
tr-- 1
Liverpool should, therefore, be cen A 1
all to 0
_ joo
that is the ito
things in the world, but one for l'
beneficial
desirable, because the most
Conservatives, is not only one of the most a 5t

OCTOBER (28, 1859..

Highest interests of tht 4biNn. Long may it be
S°, say we! and snit the are, that the great body
of the people of Liverpool will take care that it:
shall be so, in the great trial of strength on the
First of November.

THE LOSS OF THE ROYAL CHARTER.

Liverpool was thrown into a state of great excitement
and tohsternation early yesterday mottling, by the
tteiNgtnce of this dreadful calamity in, the neighbonr-
:l34 of Bangor. The Royal Charter had made her
passage from Australia most promptly and prosperously.
'lle had accomplished the run in the unusually short
Iltitied of fifty-eight days, and Without, we believe,
ttPeriencing any mishap whatever. She had not only
:`rivedaltriost within sight of htr destination, but had
handed several of her passengers at one of the Irish
ort.% at which she touched on her way hither,
,nbtless her hundreds of psent,'Pers had congratulated
t
,aelaselves on their safe vosuge homeward, and were
kiryi
l
lig forward with joyous expectations to their land-
o at Liverpool, after a few hours more sojourning on
the
gleat deep. It is Laid that the noble vessel had
deter reached •the mouth of the Mersey, and was only
ae'e'red frost' pursuing her_way at once up the ricer, by
-Itlilendeddifficulties at the bar the storm that was
tr,:tkg• As a matt of common precaution, she put
en-; and, the storm increasing, it was Rattail that her
i,7lllander should seek for sea room. Oaring the
the storm, the Royal Charter, it tis supposed,
have been tuocking about the Channta, encounter-
-16,_-'s Dealer 'danger, probably, and' billictiag sufferings
irtllll4r passengers and crew, , than nnyrthat had been
et *lth thrOuthout the whole of her ;passage. The
from the north-west drove her again within
•hr et the coast : the affrighted !passengers must have ii
the long-hoped-for land, and s,'ytit beheld it only
'iteethe 'EtpPtelaension of impending Visaster. Had it
.Posniibts to keep out te sen,:iinzlll probability she;
itt'd have been safe ; hat .driven landward by the
sistibleirkre,e of such a gale ,the ship was wrecked.
Ih:hill...siert of land, are! tilitio4t all her precious
*ttlo i*eight hurled te ,destecetion "at one ftli
,tii:stP:" It is only inotherAkhough an imensehf
hn ressitt lesson of the vanityvnd uncertainty Otta
o.:oatrilrojecls and purposes. 'The great bulk >of Abe
tijengers on board were ,dmihtless returning home Ito•
tr native land to enjoy the`fruits of their induttry
and 614_
mrprise in a far diStruitvlountry; and wiaenJthey
riv' arrived within gem-sheet Tel that very land,tia a
t'7ent they perish—perish let the very instantvwlaen
wed expecting the of
and fondest tropes-in this world.ail thoirt long-

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THE FRENCH FUNDS-

:12 p „ Pxnas, Ott. '27.
30 M'--Funds remain without variation. iJientes,
lie- 4v3 e
off 2 P•.— The mania' t is very inactive. Mentes
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35c., or the same as yesterday.
?RUSSIA AND TUSCANY.

.114111te2 official Prusiian 'Gazette of Tharsciar says the
teptiutents Published by the papers concerning the re-
l'orA9ll of the Tuscan reputation by the Minister of
?Pr,"P Affairs, are, •i.n •essential parts, ine.ma-rA. The
r, an Gazette aays particular stress on :the. fact that
it,"Putation was. not -received officially, ,because the
;11m74,n Cover ent has not been recognised by the
—'thstall Court. The interview was also -strictly private
Particulars mot being desired to be made public.