Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-08-17 00:00:00

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AUGUST 17, 1859.

effectually prepared for, if our kingdom is to continue in
the enjoyment of the blessings of peace within its own
borders.

The war in Italy, which Louis Napoleon so Icantonly
began, and so capriciously concluded, is likely to be
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on his own account. Garibaldi, it is now understood,
has put himself at the head of a formidable body of
discontented and revolutionary Tuscans, Modenese,
Parmese, and Romag,nese, who are assembling, we are
told, for the purpose of resisting any attempt to restore
the Governments which have recently been overthrown.
If this rebellious movement is to be resisted, French
and Austrian troops will have to take the field against
it ; so that we shall then have exhibited the strange
anomaly of France fighting with Austria against the
very cause for which, so lately, France was fighting
Austria herself, and with such dreadful slaughter, on
the plains of Lombardy. It is questioned, we observe,
Nvlzether the French Emperor will lend his own
'army to such an object, or permit Austrian forces to
undo alone the work so lately done by him, or at his
instigation, at so fearful a cost to both empires. A
short time will show. Meanwhile, the prospects of
Europe are, on this account, if on no other, anything
but satisfactory.

It is gratifying to observe with what alacrity and
-spirit Conservative candidates have come forward to
contest the few vacant' eats in Parliament that had to
be filled up. Mr. Ferrand to-day enters upon another
contest for Devonport,—it is said with every prospect of
:success; although his Liberal opponent, Sir Arthur
Buller, is personally formidable, as well as being backed
by all the influence of the Government. It was by an
'unscrupulous exercise of such undue influence, combined
With bribery of another kind, it now appears, that Mr.
'errand was unsuccessful the week before last; and so
evident was this, that the honourable gentleman had
Actually already prepared a petition against the return
of Sir Michael Seymour, on these grounds. Another
Ministerial candidate,—Mr. Cowper, Mr. Wilson's
successor at the Board of Trade,—is opposed at
Ilertford by Mr. Dimsdale, a Conservative ; and
the seat for Hull is sought for by still another
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vonservative candidate, Mr. Joseph Somes, the eminent
London shipowner. All this shows that the Conserva-
tives are in high spirits,—as well they may be, having,
Since the general election, succeeded in almost, if not
`entirely, reducing the majority which upset the Conser-
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/give ministry.
The Liberal party have now got an excellent
lrumPeter of its merits, who is making himself heard
-throughout the country as a candidate in the field
for the representation of Liskeard,—we mean Mr.
Bernal Osborne. Those merits, however, of his
party,. notwithstanding their greatness, must, he eon-
°lids, be "reformed," as, with a preponderance of the
Liberal element in the present House of Commons, he
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entends that it is "the worst House that ever met."
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au; as he shows, through the degenerate state of
mud not °ruled constituencies, which must be re-reformed
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improbably re-reformed again—before they
return such a Parliament as Mr. Bernal Osborne
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find it possible to be the successful leader of. The
fonstituency of Liskeard is, of course, to be excepted, if
or no other reason, yet because he is a candidate for its
'7llffrages• Ile regards it, he declares, as a pure and
incorruptible borough ; and he calls upon thew to
ah?w it to the world, by returning him as its imma-
tulate representative in the Commons House of Par-
iament,—in which case, for the time to come, he
assures them that, forsaking all others, he will cleave
any unto it. Such an union, we doubt not, will be a
genial one ; and we may therefore pretty confidently
'eatulate that he will succeed in effecting it.
1:11,e London Bakers, it is stated, are agitating for an
gnient of the hours of labour,—from eighteen
; and the substitution of day for night
This proceeding, it must be confessed, presents
remarkable contrast to that of the Builders of the

hour. To twelve

polls, although they are

apparently for very
bjects. The reduction from eighteen hours to
twelve is, in the first place, a very different thing from