Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-09-27 00:00:00

NAPOLEON'S pretentious programme for render-
ing Italy free and independent from the "Alps

to the Adriatic

to incite them to rebellion, had

no such results in view as those we refer to. The
Franco-Sardinian gold, so lavishly and freely dis-
seminated, was for another object, and one which
there seems some probability of being eventually-
realised,—namely, the construction of an Etrurian
Kingdom for PRINCE NAPOLEON, who, it is well

known, is most ambitious of dynastic honours,

more suited, apparently, to his temperament than
even the "pride_, pomp, and circumstance of glo-
riois war." If this should be the issue of the
French Emperor's interference, then will a part of
the grand scheme he has laid down for himself be
achieved. It is said that this compromise, so
palatable to him, has even been proposed by
Austria, who abandons the restoration of the
Grand Dukes to their respective kingdoms, ac-
cording to the hastily drawn up preliminaries
of peace at Villafranca. And the arrangement
would appear to wound less the amour propre of
the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA than would the annex-
ation of those principalities to Piedmont. The
same feeling which reconciled FRANCIS JOSEPH
to the' cession of Lombardy to France, rather
than to Sardinia, extends itself to the establish-
ment
of a Napoleonic dynasty, so long as there

is no _ apparent compliance with VICTOR
EMMANUEL'S wishes. It is strongly suspected that
PRINCE METTERNICH received this inspiration on
his visit to LOUIS - NAPOLEON at Biarritz ; and
having delivered himself of it at Vienna, he_ re-
turned with the acceptance of it, by the Austrian
Court, as an adjustment of the present coin-

plications in the Peninsula. It is ari arrange-
ment, however, which, although it may suit the
two Emperors, is not very well adapted to the

wishes of the Tuscans., Modenese, and-Parmese;
any more than it is consistent with the rights
of the --respective sovereigns, who must feel
themselves deserted by the House of Haps=
burg, and evicted by French gold and
intrigue. They must consider that they
have been sacrificed, in order that NAPOLEON.
111. might early .out some gigantic scheme he
silently cherishes. It is well known that the
latter considers it his predestined fate to imitate
the Career of his uncle; and perhaps to avenge
his reverses. His preSent conduct towards the
Italins is very similar to that of the First
NAPOLEON, who formed an alliance in 1796 with

the then reiguing KING OF SARDINIA, against
his former allies, the Austrians, the KING,
hoping thereby to save his crown, but whom,
when BONAPARTE took the Republican side, he
left to his fate. The Italian patriots hoped
then, as now, that they might
_maintain their

independence by constituting a separate Re-
public ; but they were incorporated with France,
and became the department of MONT BLANC.
The history of all this has lately been published
in the " Memories de M. Miot de Melito," who
had been a sort of secretary to JOSEPH BONAPARTE,
and whose memoirs, along with those of EUGENE
BEAtirIARNAIS, .throw• much. interesting light on
the First NAPOLEON'S connexion with Italy, at
the same time that they expose his constant
'want of faith, his perfidy, tyranny, and cruelty.
A 'is surprising that the EMPEROR OF THE
FRENCH sanctioned their publiCation ; unless,
indeed, he was blinded 'by the dazzling cati:

logue of the Napoleonic successes they an-
All these things, then, considered,
it behoves us to watch closely the political
movements of Louis NAPOLEON on the Con-

flounce.

tifient. The country must not allow the present
Government to relax their efforts in placing
in proper order its armaments and defences. The
MARQUIS OF NORMANBY, who is thoroughly ac-
quainted with the character of Louis NAPOLEON,
does not place implicit confidence on his political in-
tegrity ; and it must be observed, that the noble
lord was our Ambassador in Paris during seven
eventful years, including the period when the
EMPEROR presided over the Republic

description of the character of BONAPARTE by
his brother JOSEPH, we take to be equally
true of his nephew, the present EMPEROR.
" You do not," he says, " know ,him ; he
"is a wonderful man. The depth, the extent,
" the audacity of his projects astonish me more
"every day. Believe me, he has not yet attained

It is not

" the limits he proposes to reach
"difficult to see what he proposes. The founda-
" tion of a dynasty, an empire of Europe, divided
"perhaps with Russia, on the ruin of England
" and of Austria—such is the ultimate object of
" all his enterprises." We believe that a secret
written treaty now exists between the EMPEROR
or THE FRENCH and the AUTOCRAT OF RUSSIA,
which is intended to carry out the agreements of
the peace of Tilsit. One of the best safeguards,
then, for this country, is the maintenance of a
friendly feeling between the Teutonic and Anglo-
Saxon races, between whom there is much simi-
larity of disposition • and feeling, and whose

alliance may prove an effective counterpoise to
any such ominous confederacy.

A MONTH or two ago it was the fashion in cer-
tain high newspaper quarters to represent that
the revulsions of the last few years had issued,
or were fast issuing, in the assimilation of the
old and rigid forms of antagonism into one peace-
ful and harmonious type ; that, in fact, there

remained only one party in the State. This was,
doubtless, a pleasant enough sort of fancy. To
the mere speculative moralist, who, had looked
from his study with sympathising compassion
upon the bickerings of a. senate, and had long

deplored the low intrigues and perverted zeal of

faction, there was a charm even in the idea of
the dying out of rivalries, and the reconciling
power of great national interests. Even we
might have been deceived. We ourselves were

in two minds whether to begin—and that not

profanely—our Ecce quant bonum et jucundum

It seemed churlish to reject the peaceful invita-

tion. For a moment we wished that we could

give credence to the imagination of the_inventor.
Such dreams come not often. Why not for one
parliamentary recess give ourselves up to the
flattering illusion ?
The fact is, circumstances were against us. An
unlucky time was chosen for propagating this

ward to the usual possible Or expected issues ofparty
conflicts ; but it is all a mistake or a fancy

servatism is the ghost of vanished hopes revisiting
the glimpse& of • former scenes, haunting' the de-
serted spots it once illuminated in the burly and
portentous shape of Corn-laws and Agricultural
Statistics; but now without body and substance ;

" elemental," " etherial," transitory; grotesque
and amusing in its supra-mundane and shadowy"-

antics. It is playing out the reminiscences of its

former being,—dancing, as it were, round the
outline of- its 'lingering shadow, and passing off,

with fantastic gyrations, into a vapour. Yes, the
conclusion of the matter is, that Conservatism is=

not a policy : it

an element!"

Oh, golden age of politics ! Oh triumph and
omnipotence of human opinion ! At last thou
hast prevailed over all the diversities of intellect,
all the uncertainties of truth, all the prejudices.
of an hour, all the traditions of an age. Hence-
forth, let not the moral or political speculator be
called philosopher—mere lover and seeker cf
wisdom—for wisdom is found ; and set on high
that all men may see her divine lineaments ard:
worship. Such is the certainty arrived at on all

human questions, such is the mental unanimity'

which pervades the - whole circle of human

enquiry, .that there is : only one .voice; and one-
watchword ; and three hundred representatives of

political and social idiosyncracies, though they

pant above -everything to be singular, are un-
able to mar the harmony with a single discord !!'-

Greatest wonder of all, the casket where thiS
discovered and newly consolidated wisdom- is en-
shrined, is that section of the State presided over

by the constitutional levity of a PALmERsToI4

and the factious jealousy, the self-seeking tact of
a LORD JOHN RUSSELL ! This, we say, is the

greatest wonder of all, that hoary intriguers,
who have just patched up a paltry rivalry—if
for any ascertainable purpose—only that they
may together betray the Constitution to a revolU

tionary faction; that these two f‘ haPpy-r-
-luckys" should have alighted upon the assimi-
lating policy which is to spread balm , over the'

wounds of the State, and announce great unity

in the science of politics—this is; at all events.

an accident as surprising as it is sudden

What next? Perhaps Liberals will learn not-

to bribe. If Conservatives have no policy, per

haps a newspaper of credit and aspiring to be
the leader of British thought, will not con-
descend to impute to them the most desperate

and corrupt arts, to sustain a position which is

simply

useless or an incumbrance

If Con ser-

vatives have no policy they are not worth a
falsehood, and will soon be beneath the privilege
of a name. Three hundred intelligences, hoW-

ever meagre or unpretending, cannot be kept
together without a creed or a profession ; and

must crumble into dust through sheer inanition-
Perhaps, therefore, this high authority wilt
scarcely in future think it worth his while

to run the ri

of so deplorable a

as in that notable episode of this year's political

history, when the calumnies he poured-upon his
enemies falsely, were outdone by the detected
misdeeds of his friends,—the depositaries of the
sole and all-conquering orthodoxy of the future•

We shall expect a good deal from these noir
lights : magnanimity in their advocacies,--a
wholeness and breadth and finish in their elabo-
rations of doctrine and policy'. These are n°.
light expectations, nor should they be lightlY
provoked. What if the labour of the three hun-
dred should prove fruitful, and they

too, light

upon a discovery ! They have,, at least, r

ao je3-

. _
lousies among themselves to arrange, nor is their

leadership a matter of rivalry or of chance

were arising froarenr recent defeat in the Peiho. Pre-
'4ll3-ing
.upon their temporary "victory over us, the Chi-
nese Ittre assuming a most audacieus attitude towards
Europeans, several of whom-they bad already murdered
Principally at Shanghai, and in the North. It is
Trident, from this, that Our only hope of securing a safe
tnd settled intercourse ivith China is by keeping them
lo
wn,—by moral poiver where we can, but *here that
ails, 14 military force. If it be true that the
4`nierican Minister, having dared to enter Pekin,
lad been placed in confinement for his temerity,
t would appear more than probable that we shall shortly
'aye the alliance and co-operation of the United States'
j4verinent, in furtherance of the great object in view,
)f enforcing the rights of civilisation in China. Admiral
I°Pe's defeat has doubtless exercised a lamentable in-
-I"'nee, from which neither Americans nor Europeans
In" be free, until the outrage is redressed; and they who

in
for the instant, succeededa chiev ino• it are

Lit 'once more their utter inability to resist the fore

iropean civilisation.
to Great Eastern. Steam-ship will soon now, it
ars, be as tight and trim as ever. It is no slight
nunendation of such a xessel, that she has sustained
an explosion as that which unhappily took place,
neat any material or permaneut injury whatever to
fabric, as a sea-going ship. Her strength has
I.ebY been amply tested ; and as regards, therefore,
„1.3 powers of resistance,. there is every reason to place
re confidence in her than ever. As well as this, the
not
relltrts that, let her but have sea-room, and she is
aanPdaeb I f
ing more easily handled, and kept better
thnr.,°ll4lll‘and, than an ordinary ship. There is,
hers' the most certain prospect that, notwithstanding
Thilitortunes, she will yet turn out areat success,—
Y realising' the highest hopes that ha g
ve been formed
'r. and mark a new era in the science and practice

mlgation

`YILLIAM BROWN AND THE VACANT
ALDERMANIC CHAIR.

u nave received, in an indirect way, a printed in-
tinn that three gentlemen, two of them members of
Council, waited yesterday on Mr. William
rn, and requested that he would allow himself to be
in nomination for the aldermauic gewn, vacant by
leath of the late Mr. Thomas Chilton. It was, as
re informed in floe same communication, stated by
NiirrVeffery, the spokesman on the occasion, that
1 'urciwn consented to be nominated, the Town
Le' would do themselves "honour by. electing him,to
`l, civic chair during the ensuing year, when the
-orblie Library and Museum, Ins own munificent
the town, would ,be completed." Mr. Brown,
lidrde_dr.,,eon the
ground of failing health, declined the
jeffeolitt Jed to him in such complimentary terms by

LATEST NEWS.

PRANCE.

MARSEILLES, Sept. 26.
A.dvices have been received from Morocco to
e 19th inst., .announcing that a body of French
)ops had been -concentrated at Nemours. The
envy retreated after having attacked the towns
Lala, Maghrina, and Newdrowna, and set fire
the French mines at Mazig. The authorities
me established a prison at the mines of Gar
31-lbeni And continue to take energetic measures
pee protection of the inhabitants. The colonists
that a military expedition will cross the
nitiers, and will,take, as well as chastise, the
VC'n of Ouchaba.

THE FRENCH FUNDS

PARIS, Monday,

10 P.m.—The Bourse opens firm and animated.
•-r_

kentes 69.60

6.55 p.m.—A re-action of 1, per cent. has taken
ace in Rentes, which closed at 69.35.

HIE BRUSSELS CONGRESS.

one gossip of Paris and Brussels states that
nee Albert will represent England, and the
:thduke Maximilian Austria, at the proposed
egress at Brussels.

SWITZERLAND.

ZURICH, -Sept. .
le Marquis De Verli dined yesterday 26 with
Baron Bourqueney, .and left afterwards for
It is said he is the bearer of a deSpatch

the Grand Duke of Tuscany

_ .
imiau) for the French Government

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kFRICA.

Right Hon. Milner Gibson,_ Earl of Elgin, Duke
of Somerset, Sir Charles Wood, Duke of New-
castle, Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, Sir G. Grey,
and the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers.