Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-01-01 00:00:00

On Salt.

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ONE PENNY PER SQUARE FOOT.
And PATENT HAIR FELT,
For Clothing Steam Boilers, &c., by which a saving of one-fourth
in the consumption of fuel is effected.
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CIIEESE, &c. FOR EXPOR T.
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markets.—Apply to

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ON SALE,
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For analysis and price, apply to
THOMSON, BAGNALL, and BUTTERWORTH,
Brokers, 30, Moorfields.

ON SALE,
A Cargo of MANGANESE, to arrive, about 160 Tons.
COPY OF ANALYSIS ALLDE BY MR. OEO. C. HUSON, ANALYTICAL
CHEMIST :-
"Tested in the dry state it contains,
" Of Peroxide of Manganese .
" Of water
" Liverpool, 18th Dee., 1858."
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THEATRE ROYAL—Grand Comic Pantomime.
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ALLSOP'S WAX WORK EXHIBITION (Lime-street).
LIVERPOOL EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS (Post-otlice Place).
LIVERPOOL SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS (Queen's Hall, Bold-street).
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sarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 1, 1859.

THE DAY'S NEWS.

The year of our Lord, Eighteen Hundred and
Fifty-Eight, has passed from active being into the
stillness of death, and we have now entered von
another cycle. At this season last year, e. cry
heart throbbed with apprehension at the probable
result of the struggle then going on in the East.
Although the fall of Delhi had very materially
altered the face of affairs, the spirit of revolt had
spread over
the land, and was here and there openly
manifesting itself. Lucknow was held by the insur-
gent armies, and Central India seemed at the mercy
of the enemy.
Rajpootana was infested by a host
of maraijaill„ rebels, and the G valiors were in
the field wit:li,,
the empire theurmin
iinished numb
,_st's. tnrltighou
Prospects for England were cheer-
less enough, and
happily, throubo foreboded nothing good. But
now
of our soldiers,the
and bindomitable perseve-
rencemance of deeds that y the perfor-
N". 11. for ever shed
lustre on our arms, comparativeorder
0 has. taken
the place of violent rebellion.
been proclaimed Queen of India ur Sovereign has
theee.subjects have received her name vh-tr!
Another feature of the year has been her . new
nitusia •
settle-
ment of our differences with China, and
up of that country to European commerce
enterprise. Added to this, also, is the concession
recently secured by a treaty with Japan,'
the immediate effect of which will be to open
what, to us and other European nations,
has, hitherto been an exclusive country. At home
there has been many political changes. Lord
Palmerston was, early in the year, hurled from an
office in which every one believed him securely
fixed, by the introduction of a measure to amend
the law relating to conspiracy for murder. The
Earl of Derby then assumed the reins of govern-
ment, . and succeeded, after several delays, in
consolidating a ministry. Its existence, how-
ever, was greatly imperilled in the early days
of its history. In the first instance, its escape
was owing to an alteration in the mode of dealing
with the India
Bill;
in the second, its delivery from
defeat was an act on the part of the independent
Liberals of the House of Commons on the occasion
of Mr. Cardwell's motion on Lord Ellenborough's
despatch to Lord Canning_ The proceedings of
opponents, therefore, and tlie dissention in Liberal

ranks, rather flan any strength of their own, have
thus kept the Conservatives in power, though, it
must be confessed that since advent to office, more
liberal measures have been conceded than was 1
expected from them. Chief among the political
fruits of the last session are the admission of Jews
to Parliament, and the declaration of a majority
in favour of the total abolition of Church
Rates. The only topic which how engages
the notice and attention of the public at
large, is that of Reform. The leading agitator
of this question is Mr. John Bright, Member foi
Birmingham. That town, as well as Manchester,
Glasgow, and Edinburgh have responded to the
popular orator's voice ; the 'wealthy inhabitants,
no less than the woring populations, of those
and of innumerable other great towns are more or
less with him yet the people exhibit no signs
of having been enslaved to follow any particular
leadership. They agitate the Reform question for
its own sake, and 1859 will witness them
rapidly organising such a movement as will
accelerate and compel whatever concessions they
may demand. Most other home topiewof a press-
ing nature have been settled. The 'effects of the
late commercial crisis are swiftly passing away ;
our 'colonies are rich and tranquil. If the foreign
horizon continues clear, there is no'human reason
why. Parliament should not mainly apply itself,
during an entire Session, to the work of modifying
and ameliorating its own Constitution. The above
is only a glance at the more prominent features of
the year 1858.
The Paris Moniteur announces an act of grace
with which Louis Napoleon has closed the year.
He pardons 164 condemned criminals, who had
been sentenced by the tribunals during the late
sessions, two of whom were ,awaiting death. It
is to be remarked, that these are not political
offenders.

Because Mr. Gladstone finds the people of the
lonian islands determined to press their claims for
union with Greece, the Palmerstonian journals
contend that a great mistake has been committed
by the Derby government in sending him
thither. Mr. Gladstone, when he comes home,
will be in a position to impart a wonderful
amount of information as to the feelings
of those over whom we hold a protectorate, and
it can only be in the spirit of party we are informed
that the information is undesirable. Further
details from the lonian .islands certainly exhibit
Mr. Gladstone in a not very enviable plight. He
has to meet the protests that are presented to him
with language of a very decided and peremptory
character. is instructions place him in such a
position that he can receive no intimations that
the people want to join Greece ; but the lonians
make their views on this point so plain, that it is
impossible for such a conscientious Lord High
Commissioner Extraordinary not to be most deeply
impressed.
A London contemporary calls attention to an
act ot the Modenese Government, which it, with
some reason, terms barbarous. A Modenese sub-
ject, a Signor Ferrari, is a political exile, and re-
,sians in Florence. He is eighty years of age, and
is naturally desirous to return to his native place
to die. He, therefore, through his nephew, applies
for permission to return, and the answer is to the
effect that, although the Government knows
Ferrari to be incapable of doing harm, on account
of his great age, yet, as he was an incorrigible
revolutionist in his youth, it will refuse his petition,
as an example to others. It is certainly cruel.
Modena is at present ruled over by an Austrian
Archduke.

At Bury, Mr. Philips, one of the members for
that town, has addressed the non-electors. The
hon. gentleman's speech was chiefly about Reform.
He scouted the arguments pressed into the service
of the opponents of Reform, from the condition of
France and the United States, and showed that
these countries differed so much from this in the
circumstances of their population that analogy is
fallacious. The plan of Reform sketched by Mr.
Bright is to receive the entire support of
the member for Bury. While on the subject
of Reform, we may be allowed to ematAl
IL% ft utu. uu c uuia ,uttLetttporary :
" What will the public think of a rumour that
Lord Derby will not, after all, get any Reform
Bill ready for the approaching session of Par-
liament ? Undoubtedly such a rumour is non-
sense ; the interesting question is, how it ever
could have been whispered about in West-end
circles ? But this is the solution, namely, that
there are a great number of gentlemen connected
with the clubs who in their hearts are most anxious
that the Reform question should be put aside, and
the thought that the Government might manage to
get out of their promise naturally crosses the
threshold of their imaginations. It then as na-
turally escapes from their lips as a possibility which
might turn out to be a fact. Rumours are very
often the result of hopes and fancies."

THE election of a New Board of Management of
the Mersey Docks and. Harbour, on Monday, is an
occasion in which not only the Shipping Interest
of this great port, in all its various departments,
has the deepest concern, but in which the, town
generally must needs be warmly interested. It is
a Board whose conduct must most materially
affect the prosperity of the port, and therefore, in
some degree, the welfare of our town generally.
The Docks and Harbour of Liverpool have a
world-wide reputation,—and for this, if for no
other reason, that they are the best in the world.
They form one of those characteristics of maritime
and commercial greatness for which Liverpool
stands unrivalled. They are a provision of ship-
_ ping accommodation for the port upon which there
has been expended as many millions sterling, as
would pay the cost of all the public works put
together, not only of many a Continental capital
city, but of all those even of some of the Continen-
tal kingdoms. Of this vast property, the Board
to be elected on Monday will be the trustees, as
well as the managers. With great propriety and
fairness, the Board is mainly elected by the Dock
Ratepayers—we do not mean to say that it ought
not to be entirely by that body of men, interested
as they are, above all others, in the right regula-
tion, and economical management of the Docks
and Harbour. But so it is now, according to the
enactment, to be ; and we are not now going to
discuss over again that part of the case, which, as
a fait accompli, for the time being at least, must
be left to the test of another term's experience, we
suppose ; at any rate, before the question of Govern-
ment interposition, which is the exception to the
entirely local character and constitution of the
Board, may have to be opened out afresh.
This very Government intervention, however, it
that forms one of the strongest reasons why so
much independent judgment and careful discretion
are required to be exercised in the election, by the
Dock Ratepayers, of the twenty-four, out of the
twenty-eight members, of which the Board is to
consist—the rtwaining four being nominated by
the Board of T Q,de. As was well 'observed in a
letter from Londe
which was given in our
columns yesterday, \
-.rninentis " a dangerous
partner in any busin6.,
64te
hold their own." And iti i
for those who wish to
Board is by no means so slig
rect influence in .this
in weight as it may
seem in number. " Four nomi sat the Board.
Not enough to do more, in votiu Sou will say,
than turn a wavering scale. Yet -
held, well-driven team of four may do Compactly-
much good
work to its owu ends, or its master's
' -as alNizst a