Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-09-17 00:00:00

LONDON CORN MARKET.--SiSPTE3II32:=

Weather cool, and much rain falling. Arrivals
moderate of Wheat and Barley, and wry large et Oats.
Wheat in good demand at an advance of.fully lb. per Sr.
'on foreign since Monday. Barley firm... Oats are.agam
cheaper for aillinds. Flour unaltered in vale-

WAKEFIELD> CORN MARKET-Strz. 16.
Wheat in short•supply, and fully ils,dearer.. Barley
steady. Other articles dull.

GLASGOW IRON MARKEIU7—Szrm 16;
All at 51s 9d-qo 525. Market drooping.

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SEPTEXPER 17`, 1859.

THE DAY'S NEWS,

The account of the interview of tie• deputation
from 341dena and Parma with tb King of Sar-
dinia,.• on the subject off• the anuexation of the

Duehits, will be founctLamong our foreign news
of tray. The purpese.of his Majesty's speech,
it will be seen, is no* very different *from thai
whieh he delivered az, week: or two since to the
Tuscan deputations on a similar subject. Nis
Majesty is natural overflowing with gratitude
for the honours it has been so unanimously pro-
posed to thrust upon him ; but, as before, he finds
it necessary to proceed to accomplish the wishes
of the Assemblies in a legitimate way, and there-
fore cannot yet definitely assure them of his

acceptance of the sovereignties.
It will be seen by a statement we have given
elsewhere, that several additional steam-frigates,
corvettes, and sailing vessels, are immediately to
be sent to China, to augment the squadron that
is already in the Chinese waters, together with a
strong additional force of marines.
The arrangements for perfecting the telegraphic
communication to the East, are now, it will be
seen, so far advanced, as to promise an uninter-
rupted line of telegraph with Alexandria in the
course of a few weeks, when the news from India
will reach London in ten or eleven days.
We were enabled yesterday to communicate
the intelligence, received by private telegram, of
the declaration of war by Peru against Ecuador.
To-day we present such further particulars as have
been received, but they are very scanty. her
The official account of the Peiho disaster has The practical question, however, remains,—
been published, as was to be expected, in the How are we to deal with this nation so
Gazette of yesterday. From the statement there situated, and so differeneed from all the pre-

cedents with which history or experience
supplies us ? We confesd to considerable hesita-

tion in forming an opinion of the justice of this
war in the first instance. We are not by any

means sure, that any consideration of personal or

general benefit can justify a coerced entry into
any country whose inhabitants wish to exclude

us. But an ex post facto discussion of this ques-
tion is now clearly out of place. Western civili-

sation is now Irretrievably brought face to face
with the refined barbarism of this Eastern ahem-
aly among nations, and the fight must be fought
out. We are disposed to think that this act of
unexpected treachery will lead to the justifiable
extortion of more favourable terms than we had
before any prospect of securing ; and one thial4
is certain, that the matter has now assumed so
grave an aspect, that no means will be spared to
bring European power to bear in a still more
effective way, and on a still more extended scale,
upon the stolidity, the selfishness, and the
savagery of the Chinese' mind.

Such a deplorable misfortune as this is almost
too poignant to allow us, to• dwell upon its details.
Whether tact was deficient, or. ordinary precau-
tion disregarded by the commanders of the late
expedition, it is almost ton) late to, discuss: per-
hap the information, is too=theagrer and the, scene
,of the disaster too distant, to give 118 hoar of
:discussing it with fairness antrjusticel The. most

we can hope is, that past experience mid fail-ares

will serve to forearm us against' future. mistakes

and make us more able to cope with_ the- savage

ennning of the Chinese character

This is Ba

a? poor return for those fifty or hundred brave
niglish that lie mouldering lira foreign' and
troatherouss soil. Yet it is all that we can say'!

IF' any reliance is to be placed on, the sattistics.

whiih are published from time tb time, of criintv
and_Droffigasy, and other evils, which pervade'
socioty, Ave are still continuing tbi • Ire in a. very
deplorable state,,. morally and socially, irr thl

grea+J:i kingdom; of ours. We need,,not; .howver

range-the country in order to fincLan_estimate•af

it, or tb learn how orient is th

necessity- cl

some more effectual remedial means being appli
thereto than, it to be feared, call ya be said:to
be in operation.- Im Liverpool aloma, it is officiallY
stated, there art.2B2 known thieves,and depreila—
tors, 67:receivers:of stolen goods, 137 suspieiouro
characterS., 887' lirothels and houses of ill-fame,'
and 2,579: prostitaes.: Now Liverpool is, d

course, to.,be: considered as a Chr"vian town]
The Christian prufossion that is made by its cos''
munity at large Tutu- egnalS that el any other.

town of similar population in the iingdOnr;
have we-hare presented to us. a stataiof thin.go .86
utterly antiXhristziati—so thoroughly.- barbarols

incr heathenish-

—that one really

might, not un:

•
reasonably .call question the Christianity .of
such a plaee. N0;33,, let us not talks: of :what i°
barbarous- and heathenish in suellia
case as

FOI ours are vices and crimes and

enormities,— such, a& are, many of; them, not

found to, exist at all among the heathen, or
among the savages„ of less favoureclilan.ds.

must take < into the account, moreover, the

different circumstances of the two eases. In our'
own case,. the people are, or oughtto„be, under'
nfltiences,—and they knows , therefore,-