Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-09-03 00:00:00

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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1859,

THE DAY'S NEWS

Her Majesty the Queen, his Royal Highness
the Prince Consort, and the younger members of
the Royal Family, are now located in their
" Highland Home" at Balmoral, where they
arrived on Wednesday evening about six o'clock.
The_ journey throughout was happily effected
without any incident which would justify remark ;
and it is to be hoped that, in accordance with the

earnest wishes of all classes of her subjects, the
Queen and the rest of the royal party will derive
benefit as well as gratification from the bracing
and invigorating breezes which sweep the moun-
tain heather of Braemar.

The affairs of Italy, so far from becoming
settled, appear to-he getting More complicated:

Important results depend on the issue of the
2835 combat expected soon to take place between the
Pontifical troops, whd are on the point of entering:
the Legations, and the forces o the Provisional
• • ! Government: if tfie. PaVal troop succeed, it is•

When place expectant

and confronts th 6 political burglars who. have

broken in upon the Conititntion, and ire, even:

now, under specious- promises of Reform, medi-
tating a spoliation of the effects.

s were trying to make

moured for a hasty condemnation of a policy, the

true character of which still lay hid in fin

archives of the Foreign Office, and could not be
published to the world without detriment to the

public interests, Lord DERBY appealed in the
spirit of the ancient hero : If you destroy us,
at least destroy us in the light. The appeal
was rejected. There are some tactics which can
succeed only in the darkness. There are some
arts which the moment they. are seen through

collapse from their own emptiness. But intrigue

cannot calculate upon a long success. The light
must ultimately break in. Time is the sure

avenger who repairs the unworthy defeat of

merit, and "
reverses the triumphs of deceit. It is

only agreeable to our expectations, therefore,
that the feature of brightest promise in the

character of Lord DERBY'S foreign policy, is the
fact daily brought home to the country, that the

this point of view, there is no tangible reasonfol

such imputations as have been so recklessly

dulged. The system of licensing is o

has respect more particularly to
.two points,

one, name

Ilatiou of the number

-houses ; the- other having reference to

character of thos,

ffho apply for licence

fallen

to 109
, It is in carrying out this sYstel
as regards these two points, that our I°es

under the bay

such houses

Magistracy have

the journal we allude to. The question at

issue is one of

society'

justice,

justice to

no less than. to. certain vested interests, 1"-
the maintenance of which society itself IS 11°t,,,

unconcerned ;...for it can never be just to society
inflict upon it the evils of either a too numer°l
or too indiserimigate an issue of licences for snet
places as publie-houses ; neither can it 1)0 Pot
to the old-established and respectable Publitr o,
to have his interest swamped, and the ehalle—eis
of it lowered, by that inundaticAn of such h°lie
which would undoubtealy arise, but for t
check which is put upon it by the Mn,gistrfito,

under the 'authority of the law.

" What's open made to justice
That justice seizes."

mote light breaks in upon it, the more its merits
btecilY
reveal themselves, and the faster the cloud of And the regulation of public-housesis undo as
calumny is dispelled. From the peace of Villa- a question which ought to be open to justice' 0
ioes
franca, to the Conference at Z-Erich, scarcely an it is.; and one, therefore, which " justice se the
incident occurs, whether in the Duchies or in as a matter of Course. It is as Justices of
este'
Piedmont, or in Venice or in the Vatican ; Peace, then, that the Magistrates arc inv •

or in France or in Austria, or in the other

States of Germany, scarcely a word is uttered,
whether by the Pope or by the Provisional
Government of Tuscany, or by Victor EM-
MANUEL, or by the ministers of FRANCIS

JOSEPH, or by the organs of LOUIS NAPO-

LEON, or by diplomatic representatives and

plenipotentiaries, or lastly, by the free Press of
England,—which does not add to the plain

I with the power of granting publicans' lice*

and wherever they err,-

tiler
in CI

-if err they do—

ar'
limiting the number of those houses, or de.-
mr
ring to the character of those who may aPPIY::,
licences to open them, they certainly err °II a
right side,—on the side of sobricty,
morality all

virtue; and therefore in the interests of society'
and consequently act, as• they are in duty b°.611

understanding, and strengthen the reasonable
vindication of Lord MALMESBURY'S treatment
of the Italian difficulty. Probably a foreign
minister has not often been Called upon to deal
with a crisis involVing More delicate complica-
tions, more doubtful questions, more conflicting
interests. Lord MA.I4-EsßbltY's correspondence
on this- subject idled* *Alt the utmost nicety

in the very character we have assigned to the°'
that of Justices of the Pea(

In the attack we refer to, it is more than 111.1:
sinuated that the Conservative Magistrates are

the habit of favouring those of their own Par"

that is to say, that they will sometimes grallti.lit
licence to a ConserVatiVe, but refuse-it to alt
3ul,
cal, simply because fli.6'one is a conservative (016;
the other a gaditab- Now, we are by no ill