Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-07-25 00:00:00

the waist is. set fla a band, eoyered by a ,eeinture of Wu
ribbon'. The latter is fastened 'in a bow in front, and twi

long erii

:flow overtheifront of the slcift. Over the corsage
fiehu of black blonde, jinted at the back, and
afront are crossed one over the other. The sleeves

led ,of seven; frills of graduated width, anil are edged,

eeve

While the

tot' the .cveather con-

filmes to be so overporering as it ,bas reeentlyibeen, the
dresses nio3t, ii vogue will be amain, organdy, baroge,

Wildly reserved for .indaor neglige;
in ,and for walking cos-
tume the eanntrY, grenadine may ,also be mentioned
the light fabrics employed for :dresses

;ono very

plata and figured, mina
are uiatle with douille skirts, trimmed

pet.ty dresses of p•enadiit

flounces are not unfrequeutly, edged with rows of narrow
ribbOu and fringe.—Lady's 11reu4paper.

' GRAND HORTICULTI7RALTLORAL FETE AIC LEEDS.'---The
:hirreat success of the late fete at Kirkstall Abbey, near Leeds,
has indu&d• the promoters to get up another, Lo be held in
the new Town-hall, on September, the 9th and 10th, the

prolltsof which will be de;:oted to the Leeds Dispensary.
The Mayor (Sir Peter Fairhairn)' Are are informed, will take
the ebau,; and' the Queen and Prince Consort have con-
sented to give their patronage to the undertaking.
FATAL AcciouNT.—On Saturday, Mr. Payne, the coroner,

received information of the death OtAir. John Grislec, aged
30, who resided at 9, Biliter-street, Oity, London, under the
following circumstances. It appears that the deceased was
progginvi Pen ehnreh -street when he was knocked awn by a

crushiiip, 11iiu to death

polic

-constable went to his

but life was extinct

The longest whaling voyage on record Wag made by the
schooner• Exile, which arrived at Now. Loudoin on the 12th.
She sailed August 18, 4852; consequently she was ab3ent

s nine months, and twenty-five days, The only
lenrOach to this lengthened voyage made by any vessel

our recoil-ea:ion was tli

share of influence, or in her legitimate
'conditions, yes, we-like peace.
" Nor etl,ll we be suspected of not %Ping' parti
English alliance. Have we .not at =fillies been r
for being too much so ? If we did -hot feel offe
because we always declared why, how, and on what -con
ditions, we wish.ed for, and do wish Tor the English. alliance
It can only be on certain conditions, Which we 'think 03;
present moment well suited to remind our readers of.
"We have often said it—we lodk upon ad'intimate alli
ante. between France and England 'as intlispensnble to th

he double moral

As a moral 'power, 'We find 1
ssociated for food

safeguard of t
inn from that alliam
the genius ,of the two nations

might be wanting in either of
_them respeetiv€

renders their ascendancy irresist.ible. AS a material pow
with Out ain presumption, and without contempt
any one, this alliance appears to us to rtpresentnae
_

the greatCst combined

strength by land and sea which can be produced either to
do good or- prevent The Anglo-French alliance is
_ _

therefore of the higheit moment to the interests
and of the world, as also 63'the interests of the t

hasten to add, it cannot exist and last except on
condition of being sincere, reciprocal, confiding—in a
ward, really cordiaL And is ,this impOsible ? We do not

nations

Dui, let

ttirik 80; for if we carefully coisidc
reasons for peace and a good undo
Eatrlish.autl ourselves, Ite are still moi

coolness :of those anlical

.
eve that we are 'MAW expressing. the opime n o
the majonity of the,political men of our eenntry, no ingttt
to what party they belon4;, the opinion of all ihe eni

ail the' "ewellent

between t

stuck, i possi bl

ii4i.us would "T.lnilic

'4 We ;hi

) portion.OTAlie nation, of that Which has known goiv, on
more than,one occasion, to bet aside old prejudices and bid a

xxce to o

"And.caii. as much be saidfor England? After what has
jolt taken 'place in the highest governmental regions, eve may
be allowed to express a doubt. It appears' to usAhat,
latterly, the (common sense of ,the English people has, almost
sinr,le-hatukd, defended the ,alliance with France :against
the dangers'which its statesmen made it incur. Without
endeavourinr.to support our Observations .by quoting (14)16
-
made doctungnts; which havatecome very,eld within a ,fiort-
trigla.t, we might find a much nearer proof in the .recent

ileltates in the two

We have not

th<

re are perfectly aware that it is alftomar.
side of the Chanuel, whoweveT the army or naypesti-

ready to send forth their squadrons fo'aded -with •troops,:an
every sea, • speedily converted into Freneb.lakesif nbt :at
once, :at least ,at no short interval. We ;know that this
Iheatscal effect invariably succeeds; the pounds sterling
aro voted. Btt hitherto in this somdithaili6ekneyed cus•
tom we beheld .the chief -part t nby samesecentrie indi-
vidual, and we attach but little:imnortance'io it. The dir—

cumststr es :.under which the Bailie' scenes have 'occurred.

the political impf,rtancti of the near actors, the (linouentot

tiler

I allow us to re—main 'silent respecting a danger which we
should like to obviate.
" it; by one of those sudden 'changes at any moment
sible in parliamentary governments,- a division -with a small
minority should restore to power .the party just thrown out,
would its programme be in keeping. with the Opposition
speeches in the House of Lords? This would be serious.
Mistrust, menace, almost insult, towards France is 'what
we find ,in those Tort- manifestoes—mistinst when the go-
yermitent of the E'riperor has. never 'ceased, by words

las by acts, 1 e -re-assnre'Europe as to inten-
menace when France scrupulously abstains from
any provocation, when she has nothing armed,' nothing
prepared, beyond the wants of the war in Italy:; finally,
almost ill-concealed inset under that strange appeal to
onperannuated passions. This is net propel' behaviour
:towards any one., and it :is dangerous towards our country.
.That England should have thought fit to remain neutral—
,that, forgetting liar liberal policy, she did not choose-to:join
France in liberating Italy--as a point we shall not examine
DOW peace is conduded, whether she was right or wrong
before the war.; but that her,neutrality should be ostensibly
directed against asie what we do not understand, because
there is not anything to justify it or explain at.

(‘ France do-es not 9a`.'claini,to dominate anywhere.

a,,'as on the mainland, she only wishes bier legitimatE

3erty and-action,

s this 'imp:

,T that she mist

• • .
eOlciniQg far and near, ugreat maritime commerce, religious,
political, and commercial interests; finally, a moral influ-
ence lo maintain over the ,whole surface of the ;lobe; for

this purpose she keeps up an army and a fleet prOrtionate
to her
*population, her wealth, herzrandeur. When her
honour ,or her interests command it, France employs her
forces as-She thinks fit against her enemies ; but she doe
not threaten 1— nr' her allies he sloes not

v.
their honesty; she does not, provoke them by suspicions

"We no 'longer believe in
,hereditary hatreds; we do not
wish to believe any more in 'traditional resentment _between
nations ; a long peace, a long interchaugT of relations of
every nature .on a footing of equal and mutual esteem, have,
at least we thought so, silenced those anachronisms left for

lead with our giOriou'soldiers on the battle-fields of Alma

And of Inkerniazt

Are we, perhaps, .mistaken.?

'opposition to the suspicious and hostile • neutrality of
England and of Germany. The'Emperor, victorious, restores
peace to astonished Europe. Will Europe be less moderate
and less pacific than the Emperor ? Will England, who
takes note of a single vessel more or less launched at Brest,
and who votes 300,000,000 francs for her navy ; will England,
who so' loudly calls upon the Continent to disarm, will she

set the example, and withdraw from:her order of th

view of the alliance we should wish to uphold ? When a
cloud passes overhead pregnant with electricity, why attempt
to deliver the thunderbolt ? Who knows where it might
fall ?"

The Lawyers' Rifle Coq* ha collapsed. 'Leading mem-
bers of the committee make no`diffieulty in admitting that

lite insignificant,