Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-02-01 00:00:00

LONDON MINING.

Little business has been done this morning in the
Mining Market,
,the dealers being ,occupied , with the
settlement. The principal transactions have been Pt
shsres in West Stray Park, East Basset, ,Lewis, and. Tin
Croft mines. In the Stock Exchange, East Wheal
Russell shares are marked 10a, showing a decline.
Foreign and colonial mining shares remain withont
.alterv;ion of importance. English and Australian Copper
have been dealt in at 21. The shares of the Kapunda
Mining Vompany (Limited) have been ordered to be-
marked on the Stock Exchange official list, and business
has been.deoe in them at 1H per share prem.

BOROUGH HOP MARKET.
The demand for new Hops is still steady, at full quo-
tations. In other kinds very little doing, at late rates.

MANCHESTER SHARE,
Great Westerns, 435, 1, I, Trunkb, 8 11-16, j
Midlands, 100.

MANCHESTER TRADE.

Yarns remain firm, at the full rates of last week ; but
Ole inquiry for them is more subdued. Cloth is still in
good request, and has hardencd in value since Friday.

HULL COIN.

A nwderate supply of English Wheat, which met g
brisk sale, at fully last week's polices. In Barley, Beans,
and Peas Tery little doing. Oats more inquired for.

'LEEDS CORN.
Wheat firm, at Friday's prices; but trade not active,
Beans fully as dear. No change in other articles,

NEWCASTLE CORN.

English Wheat a slow sale, at Saturday's prices.
Of foreign Wile offered, holders refusing to sell at pre-

THE DAY'S NEWS.

In the House of Loids last night the business
was almost, if not altogether, of a preliminary
and formal nature, and their Lordships adjourned
at a quarter before six o'clock.

A large portion of yesterday's sitting, in the
House of Commons, was devoted to the discussion
of Mr. Lindsay's motion for the appointment of
a select committee to inquire into the operation
of the burdens and restrictions affecting Merchant
Shipping. The Hon. Member made a good case,
in legal language, in favour of a speedy abolition
of " passing tolls," and he visited with a strong
modicum of his dislike, the, large sums which
Government had, from time to time, exacted
from the mercantile community, as means
to provide 4' harbours of refuge" along our coast.
This Mr. Lindsay denounced as an absurdity, and
'in set language reiterated that, if constructed, they
would be of no use whatever. The motion was
seconded by Mr. Horsman. An amendment on
the motion, by way of an addition, was moved by
Mr. Digby Seymour, to the effect, that inquiry
should be insisted- on as to the depressed con-
dition of British shipping, and how far the same
is capable of legislative remedy, and to consider
the expediency of giving to the, High Court of
Admiralty an appellative jurisdiction over naval
courts." In the course of the debate which
ensued, Sir Charles Napier, as is not unusual with
him, disputed the efficiency of the Government
arrangements as to apprenticing, and also as to
men entering the Royal Navy. The terms and
meaning of the original motion were explained,
and several members participated in the opinions
expressed 'by Sir Charles- Napier, while Mr.
Milner Gibson 'emphatically denied that -the
complaints alleged •could liave arisen from the
causes complained of. Mr. D. Seymour withdrew
his amendment, and the motion for an enlarged
committee was agreed on. The corruption at
elections was brought under notiee. Lord Pal-
merston., in respect to this, expressed his convic-
tion that the feeling against bribery was stronger
in the house than 'out of doors ; and he expressed
a hope that efforts would be made by all parties
to " put down the offence." Leave was given to
bring forward a bill on the subject. Leave was
also obtained to bring in several bills, and the
house adjourned at eleven o'clock.

The Emperor of Austria refuses to grant an
audience to the members or the influential
deputation of Protestants from Hungary. The
deputation consisted Of representatives from all
the four Calvinistic superintendencies, and one
superintendency of the Lutherans. The assemblies
of these superintendencies were formally-abolished
by the -patent of September 1. The Emperor
grounds his refusal on merely technical obections,
to the manner of their approach to the Imperial
Throne. The object of these deputations is to
have the patent of September 1 annulled, and the
question relative to the Evangelical Church
settled in -accordance with what they consider
their historical rights. The Government pro-
fesses a desire to satisfy the Protestants, but
declines to alter its recent policy. Personal
influence and persuasion are being brought to
bear from the individual members of the deputa-
tions, -and it is believed that some of the
Luthera.us, may agree to do what they are bid;
" but the Calvinists," says a recent advice, " who
are Magyars to a man, are almost as stern and
inflexible as the Scotch Covenanters of the 17th
century, and will not cease to insist on 'the complete
restoration of their religious rights and privileges."
The ,Government continues to manifest its uneasi-
ness, -and, at the same time, its folly, in the
course being pursued towards the Hungarians, in
various ways. One of the latest, it will be seen,
is the: order prohibiting the officers of Austrian
regiments serving in Hungary "from marrying
Hungarian girls
The reported increase of the. French army in
Italy has been attempted to be denied, or ex-
plained as merely exchanges of .troops ; but we
observe, by a late advice, that "it is a positive
fact that the French army in Lombardy is
receiving reinforcements from France ." and, it
is added, by the same informant, " the French
and Sardinian troops have recently changed some
of their positions, so that the former are now
nearer the frontier of Venetia. Powerful French
detachments are now in Brescia and Desenzano,
and some French cavalry has, even been pushed
a
forward to Goito. In Milan speedy invasion of
Venetia is talked of, and the points of attack are
to be the: districts of Revere, Sermide, and Gon-
.zaga, on the right bank of the Po." According
to the latest rumours, the Austrian Government;
although determined to defend Venetia; " so long
AS a musket is left to •them" for that purpose, has
now no intention of interfering in Central Italy.
An enthusiastic but peaceful and orderly de-
monstration of public feeling took place at Rome
on Sunday evening last. After the French
drummers had rolled the evening retraite at the
Piazza Colonna, the vast assemblage who had
been listeners and spectators fbllowed the drum-
mers as they broke up with shouts of "Long live
the Emperor," " Italy for ever," " Long live
Victor Emmanuel." The multitude, swelling in
numbers and rising in excitement, accompanied
the military through the narrow streets, till they
reached the barreks. The crowd, it is said,
hissed as they passed the palaces of some of the
nobles who had signed the -recent address of con-
dolence to the Pope. This manifestation of anti-
papal sympathy has led to several arrests, and
pontifical dragoons and gendarmes were mustered
in the streets adjoining the Colon na. Thus, even
the Romans can get up a little patriotic display
as well as their brethren in other parts of Italy.
e indicated, the other day, the effective and
peaceful manner -in which it then seemed the
probable intention of the united populations of
Central Italy to annex their territories to those
of Upper Italy, by sending delegates chosen
under the new electoral law, to the SArsliniau

Parliament: This expectation becomes-niereltnd-
biore probable. It 'Me) tio*li &Len announced in
something like an official-manner, that the pro-
posed course of action has the sanction of thosc,
Peweri Whose concurrence is sufficient,we may sat
to secure its adoption and efficiency. The Tuscan
' decree, promulgating the Sardinian statute, and-the
amended electoral law, proceedi on the considers-
tion that the ,rights and deliberations of the
Central Italians " find now a new support in
those Governments which, abstaining from any
diplomatic or military interference whatever in
other States, consider the national independence of
Italy necessary to the peace of Europe." Thus
the powerful influence exercised by England is
made manifeSt ; for to her especially must the
allusion be of " abstaining from any diplomatic
or military interference whatever" in these
affairs. As soon as the preliminary arrangements
for the annexation are made, it is still expected
that Count Cavour will start on his mission to
France and England. The news is still that of
military preparation in Central and Upper Italy,
in case of accidents.

ConfidencC in the continued maintenance of
peace, has not yet been restored to the
_commercial
circles of France ; for, notwithstanding the
French Government has recently given fair
indications of its pacific intentions, and admitting
that the present state of the alliance between
France and England advancei the prospects of
peace, vet confidence is not restored. The sudden
outbrea‘k of war last year, and the abrupt changes
in the Imperial policy, are still fresh in every
one's recollection ; and it will require time and
reflection to efface the unfavourable impression.
Hence, we presume, the still uneasy and heavy
condition of the money and other French markets.
It will be observed from a recent telegram that
there has actually been a panic on-the Bourse, in
consequence, it is supposed, of the breach between
the Pope and the Emperor, and the probability of
war in Italy.
The question of the restoration of -Nice 'and
Savoy to France is gradually assuming greater
importance. Besides the attention it has attracted
in the British Parliament, it will be seen that the
Swiss Federal Council has just drawn up a pro-
test against the proposal.
For some years past the silkworms' eggs
throughout France and Italy have suffered from
a fatal disease to such an extent as to affect
seriously the production and manufacture of silk
in Europe. We now learn the interesting news
of the great success of steps taken to regenerate
the breed of silkworms in that quarter of the
world, by obtaining from India, China, and
Japan, eggs that have never been subjected to
the influence of the disease. The mission sent
abroad a year since has succeeded in procuring
from the interior of China a large quantity of
the most valuable eggs, having, besides, been
initiated by the Chinese into all their secrets of
breeding silkworms. Count Castellain has re-
turned to Europe, bringing with him thirty-six
chests of eggs, and having sent an equal quantity
by California, and by North America.
The Times devotes a long leading article to the
sacrilegious riots at the church of St. George-in-
the-East, on Sunday evening last—of which we
gave an account yesterday—offering as a practical
suggestion, which might tend to a diminution of
these scandals, " that authority shall be placed
in the hands of the Bishops of the various dioceses
to maintain order and decency, and to see that
the services of the Church are conducted in con-
formity with a certain general and acknowledged
standard within the limits of their respective
jurisdictions." The difficulty here, however,
would be the fixing of such " acknowledged
standard," which, if left to the Bishops them-
selves to do, would vary in the several dioceses,
according to the doctrinal or other views of the
respective diocesans. Our contemporary can find
no excuse for the riotous proceedings themselves.
"We trust," he observes, " that in all we have
said it may be clearly understood as our first and
leading conviction, that the punishment of the
rioters of Sunday night is the first point which
should be looked to. The sacrilegious disturbance
was a disgrace to the capital of the British
Empire."

THE 'question of Church-rates is again before
both Houses of Parliament. In the House of
Commons a bill has been introduced for their
total abolition, similar to that of last session; and
in the House of Lords, on the motion of the Duke
of MARLBOROUGH, the committee appointed last
year to inquire into the present state of the law
and practice, respecting the assessment and levy of
Church-rates, has been re-appointed. We suppose,
it may be taken for granted, that the bill will
pass the Commons, as before ; but we anticipate
so much good from the labours of the Lords'
committee, as will most probably have the effect
of arresting the progress of the measure in the
upper house, if it does not also produce a great
revulsion of feeling on the subject in the public
mind Of the country.

The question of Chureh-rates resolves itself
into this, as it was so well put by the Bishop of
RIPON, at a meeting the other day on the subject,
" Are we to have an. Established Church in this
country P The evidence given before the
committee of the House of Lords, last
session, clearly showed that Church-rates are
necessary to the maintenance of a Church
Establishment. And it is this conviction
that has__oo.,greatly strengthened the opposition
to the abolition of Church-rates, which has during
the last few months manifested itself in all parts
of the.country. Not Church people only, but the
reflecting and well-disposed among the Dissenters
also, are convinced that. it would be an evil day,
for England when there was no longer an Estab-
lished Church ; and if such an institution of the
country .is really to be maintained, then, assur-
edly, must that provision for the preservation of
its material fabrics, more especially in those parts
of the country where the, population is scanty and
poor, be strictly upheld.

There is apparently a
great
to
oubthlie
Nov
mind, particularlye,
object of Church-rates. ow that object is
subject
ind,
with pervading
reference,
a large
more portion
of h
mainly, if not wholly, as we have said, the main-
tenance of the fabrics of our parish churches.
Church-rates are in no wise to be regarded as en-
dowments for the support of the clergy. They
are intended to provide funds for the repair of
Churches, and for the provision of such things as
are requisite for the performance of Divine Service.
But not one fraction of them is appropriated to
the stipends of the clergy ; and even as respects
those purposes to which they are to be strictly
applied, the rate-payers have the power, by law,
of exercising a complete control ;—requiring, as
they may at any time do, the closest auditing
9f th accounts, and resisting any attempt to

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misappropriate- the funds they are called upon
to provide. -
One of our contemporaries, we observe, states,
the question to,be, " Whether there exists in 'the •
Establishment of the Church of this__countr~
sufficient vitality to maintain her pre-eminent.
position. without compelling pecuniary aid front
those who cannot conscientiously make use of the'
seat inAhtirparish Church to which the tax they
pay entitles. them." But this is not, in reality,•
the question at issue. That question, in its ih-
tegrity, is this,—Shall the Church surrender an•
ancient right of property, necessary to guarantee
the -maintenance of her parochial fabrics, and
thereby secure her position as. an Establishment•
of the country ? There is nothing intolerant in
asserting such a right. The Church possesses it=
as inalienably, as does any other corporate
body, or any private individuals, over the pro-
perty they own. Any one dissenting from
Church is at- full liberty to do so with-
out any disqualification ; but surely it can-
not, in reason, be required that he should
receive a premium for doing so, by having his •
property exonerated from the payment of a rate
which has attached to it, from time immemorial, •
and with which burthen upon it it has come into
his hands. For our part, we believe that in per-'
haps the majority of the parishes of the king-
dom, there does exist quite sufficient vitality
to maintain the Church without the aid of
Church-rates. But this were no good reason f( r
the Church's surrendering her property—and
surrendering it, not to the poor but the rich—to
the owners of property, who have either in-
herited or purchased the same subject to that
rate, and at a value accordingly. The Offertory
of the Church might doubtless be more employed
than it is for its sacred purposes, and it would be
well for the Church, perhaps, if it were so ; but
not to supply the_place of Church-rates, which it
is the Church's inalienable right to enjoy, and
which the repair of Cie Church's fabrics, if no'
thing else, imperatively requires. Just in pro"
portion as the Church is aroused to a sense of her
obligations to the people will the necessity of the
Offertory be felt; but just in the same proportion:.
would the wrong be aggravated, by requiring•
any portion of such Offertory to supply the place
of an ancient and legal right of property like
that of Church-rates. ,

THE LATEST NEWS•

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FRANCE.

PARIS, Jan. 31.

The Pays of this evening says numerous depir
tations from Savoy, composed of persons of high-
standing, arrive daily in Paris. The demonstra-
tions in Chambery, on Sunday last, was of no
importance.
The panic on the Paris Bourse yesterday, ig
ascribed by the correspondent of the Dail)
to the breach between the Emperor and the
Pope, and the probability of war in Italy.
The Univers was the only Paris journal which
1852 extolled the law under which it has 11°'6r
been suspended. News