Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-09-20 00:00:00

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and now, when the whirligig of home politics has
borne Lord Palmerston back to power, a new contest,
shered in by an unprecedented defeat, is added to the
mes, and to the responsibilities of
I the chastisement of Chinese

complications of th
the minister who

o political capital for his own exaltation.
Whatever may be the issue, Lord Palmerston can at any
ire at war with the
it ambassador, charged with the
ratification Of the treaty of peace, has been repulsed in
)rce a passage to the capital, and all the

rate no longer de
Chinese empire. 1

that

the attempt t,
ingpiery whir

s practised about Chinese aff
Is freely in England as in China, will fail to trans-
form a deliberate . and successful national resistance
into a mere local raid by a hot-headed provincial gover=
nor. The miserable squabble about a Hong Kong junk
has thus fairly launched us in a war with the most popu---
lous empire in the world ; and the issue of the ill-judged
attack with which it has been commenced, must teach
us that a force somewhat more considerable than eight
or ten gunboats will be needed to bring the untoward
quarrel to a successful termination. The repulse, with'
a heavy loss of men and ships,
of an expedition against
a people whom it is the fashion to decry as feeble and bar-
barot

almost

the enemy which statesmen at home and commanders
abroad have been weak enough to indulge. The detailed,
despatches have annihilated the excuse suggested in the

first telegram, that the discomfit

.e of the fleet
llise. Nothi►ig could

was the res al

be further from the truth

UNSUSTAINED CHARGE OF STEALING £loo.—On
Friday, James King Sedgwick, joiner, Haslingden, was
brought before Henry Slater, Esq., a magistrate at
Manchester, charged with stealing about £lOO, be-
longing to Mr. John Crossley, chemist, Haslingden-
It appeared that on Thursday last Mrs. Crossley,
while engaged in removing from one house to another,
missed a pair of stays, in which were deposited a
large sum of money, a promissory note for £7O,
and two copies of wills. She delivered the defendant,
Who was assisting in the removal of the goods, into
the custody of Police-serjeant Atkinson, and charged
him with having stolen the property. He declared that
he was innocent ; but he was, nevertheless, placed in
the lock-up. On Friday morning, the police officer and
another person searched the house, from which it was
supposed everything had previously been removed; with
the exception of a parrot. On opening a cupboard in
the back kitchen, the stays. were found on one of the
shelves; and, on examining them, there ,were found
inside 83 sovereigns, two half-sovereigns' a promissory
note for £7O, and two ,copies of wills. The defendant'
was discharged, the magistrates-telling him that he left
the court without a stain upon his character. He sub-
sequently claimed from Mrs. Crossley as compensa
tion for imprisonment, which was immediately paid.

•
THE STRIKE.—INTIMIDATION.—IMPORTAI;TI APPLI
CATIONS.—Two master-builders, on Saturday, waited
upon the magistrates at Marlborough-street Police=
court (Mr. Bingham and Mr. Beadon), for advice under.
the following circumstances :—They produced a letter,
without signature, but purporting to come from the"
Trades' Conference at the Paviors' Arms, intimating'
that no lock-outs should resume work without the
sanction of the Conference. They stated that a large
number of workmen, who had entered into engagements
for employment, had received each a letter to the same
effect, and had been threatened with violence and loss if
they ventured to disregard it. These men thereupon had
asked their employers what course they could take with'
safety to themselves, and the applicants desired to know'
what answer they should give the men. The magistrates
recommended that the men should immediately go to
work, and, in case of any act of intimidation or violence,
make application to the court. They might rest assured
that the law was strong enough to protect every mall
the free exercise of his own industry. The applicants'
thanked their worships, and withdrew. A publican
shortly afterwards'came to complain that, having beell-
called on for a contribution in aid of the men on strike,
he had told the applicants he was unable to afforn one,
whereupon he was told that unless he contributed h;
would be " spotted "—in other words, measures would-
be taken to effect his ruin. The magistrates informed
him that upon the production of proper proofs, the cell'
spirators would be severely punished. s
RED SEA TELEGRAPH.—Messrs. Newall and Co.
steamers, Imperador and Imperatrix, will be ready
.'
leave Liverpool at the end of the present month filth
the remainder of the cable to connect Kurrachee
Aden. The cable to connect Alexandria with this enll;
try is now to be laid through the Islands of R110!e,,
and Schios to Constantinople, and not by way of Cane!
as previously intended. It is expected to be laid
is
about a month, by Messrs. Newall & Co. Cagt,aher
Pullen, of the Cyclops, has fixed on Hallani, one of
Kooria Mooria islands, as a station for the Red

Telegraph.—China Tetegraph.
from Algesira, which asserts that
13th have arrived. The Novidades publishes of tte
SPAIN AND MOROCCO.—The Madrid journals
..
a iett.e.
surrection, and iniquities which barbarians only c. 15.
commit have been perpetrated," but it gives no detaito
We may, however, observe that the accounts hither e
given in the Madrid journals of the situation
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unfounded. In the present case, however,
a Tangier is in fail inia;
Morocco since the decease of the Emperor, have proripu
to the letter adds, that " 14 small vessels filled
nitat",
emigrants from Tangier" had arrived at Algesirasi:re
as this is a fact which the writer asserts witheiti
at
he
serve, we must suppose that he had witnessed What Gene—
relates. It is stated in some of the lournals thatne
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ral Seranno is to be nominated Captain-Ge ho
r:
in the room of General de la Concha,
i tirement has long been expected. a postscw.
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