Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-12-13 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS,

.In the letter on "Decimals" which appeared in our yesterday's
imp:ession, in is 'err;:.nedusly Printed "as many unites as
. there -are -ones' Should have been "at thereSre ante's."''-•
Short letters are 6ncouraged on matters of public interest.
. They shaald Toe ltibly written on olie.sie Qf the paper enly.
Under no circumstances can we msert col/num-neatens act
accompanied by the author's real name and address, wh!ch
are required, not necessarily for:p-ab7.l:ation, 'but as guarL:
tees of good faith. •

to amount. to that of 2-1 individuals. The cele-
brated and plc.'aSing Atrierican, author, WaShington
Irving -is thad. ° The steamers. Europa and
Bohemian had arrived out. The Canada, which
. , , ..
maybe ;expected in- course of this forenoon; Was
detained at Halifax by_ a dense fog. From .the
meagre
.outline of intelligeried thus furnisbed, it
appears that the excitement relative to the San
. . •-- Juan dispute has nearly died _ out ;it is said
The War in Morocco,
_so far, is in favour of the General Scott is 'about to initiate a conciliatOry
Moors, who continue to be the assailants,
the
Policy. --
Spaniards acting
-solely on the defensive. . The
-. . .
LaSt .night an interesting meeting washeld in
Spanish Government has evidently not taken Hope-hall. ,It was the_ annual meeting of the ~
sufficient precaution for the preservation of its Liverpool branch of the Irish Society, which was
army in --Africa, the climate of which is so un- established-lir-1818f for the purpose of diffusing a
favourable to Europeans.. It is now said that the 1 knowledge of the Bible among, the Trish,! by
mode of supplying provisions for the troops turns ;printing and circulating the Scriptures in the
out to be exceedingly defective, and the men in !Irish tongue. The chair was . occupied by the
consequence are suffering severely. Considerable I{6-t, Di.. M'Neile, who, in a long and animated
reinforcements of troops; it is considered, will be , address, pointed out the particular objects of the
required to enable the Spaniards to prosecute the i society. He was followed in aii energetic appeal
war with any decided effect ; and the Spanish 'by the hey. Canon Stowell,'of Manehesterl,other
Government are, now chartering English tiling- clergy ,
men also taking part in the proceedings, a
ports-for the conveyance of their soldiers. - detailed account of which Will be found in" our
The Freiiich Government would seem to have
reporting columns.
used considerable promptitude in getting ready

Ely i r,,cfrtljent ants

TUESDAY DECEMBER 13,.1859.

THE DAY'S NEWS.

and despatching the expedition to China. All
the ships we now learn, destined for that expedi-

No orie: 'that witnessed Tthe proceedings of the
late trial in the Court of Exchequer, in the case of
the Sierra Nevada, which has resulted in so serious
a verdict against the Mersey Dock and Harbpur
Board, can have received any very fairourable im-
pression of our Jury system. We do not remeinber,
a case submitted to similar arbitrement, that
would appear to have been decided so slightly, if
at all, upon the real merits of the question at
issue. -And-there were two reasons, perhaps, in
the case hefoi'e us, why its decision was upon
the whole so unsatisfactory: In the first plice,
the Jury evidently did not fully:comprehend the
actual bearings of the entire case; and in the next
place, there were popular influences—infacnc-is
that were very apparent in court throughout the .
whole proceedings, but more particularly at the
close of the last speech of counsel for theplaintiff—
w.hich could not but affect, more or. less; the mind
and feeling of the Jury. When the counsel for the ;
plaintiffs sat down, immediately preceding the 1:
summing up of the Judge, there was an evident
attempt to applaud on the part of the crowded
audience, which was Only prevented by the
instant interposition of the Judge -and. the'

tion, have, with one' exception, left, the French

ports, with troops and stores for China. The
exception is a screw steamer, which is to follow

immediately. We suppose that by the month of
April the 'combined French and English squa-
drons will be in -a position to enforce redress, if