Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-03-23 00:00:00

SECOND EDITION.

NORTHERN TIMES OFFICE, WRONTISDAY, 9 A.M.

THE CONGRESS.

Geneva, London, Brussells, and the Hague, has
been successfully mentioned at which the Congress
will be held, but the Times believes that Aix la
ChAppel will ultimately be selected.

DEBATE ON THE REFORM BILL.

The _Daily .Yews'says that the speech of Sir E. B. Lytton,
on Tuesday night, was thoroughly successful as an oratorical
effect, but it was not argument. It is a bold and haughty
flinging away of the scabbard ; it is an avowal of the
feelings and motives with which the bill has been framed.
Sir Edward denounced all concession to the working classes
as snbvertive of the freedom, the safety, and the honour of
England. Once go below the £lO franchise, and you can
never arrest your downward steps. Admit the working
men by tens and twenties, and then by hundreds and
thousands, and they will speedily force their way in.
Their enfranchisement would be a fraud, and the general
enfranchisement folo-de-so.

The Morning 'Herald takes an entirely opposite view of
Sir E. Bulwer Lytton's speech, and says he boldly grappled
with the absurd charge that ministers are afraid of the
influence of the working man, and have not consulted his
interests.

The Post agrees with the Colonial Secretary as to the
great object of the Government Reform Bill. It is intended
to perpetuate the power of the middle classes.

The Times rem-arks that, as the ministerial measure is
more closely examined, it betrays more and more a wish to
find in property a refuge from population.

MAIL NEWS.—Much disappointment is occasioned by the
delay in the arrival of the Australian January mail. The
February mail may be expected at Suez four or five days
hence, and the news by two mails may thus; be received
within a few days interval.

RAILWAY NEWS.—An official notice, announcing a new
issue of one million pounds East India Railway Shares, with
the 5 per cent. guarantee of the India Government, caused
a serious fall in Indian securities generally.

COMNLERCIAL

A considerable degree of iudicision prevailed to-day
amongst speculators in the Stock Exchange. In the
morning the announcement in the Moniteur of a Congress
of five Powers caused Consols to be supported in an advance
of about k per cent., but lower prices came' forward from
Paris. A vague rumour was circulated that Austria declines
to accept the proposed Congress, and the fall in the foreign
Exchanges attracted attention. The consequence was a
sudden heaviness in the Stock Exchange. Consols left off at
the lowest point of the day, and per cent. worse than
yesterday. The appearance of all the markets at the close
was comparatively depressed. The discount business at the
Bank to-day was upon the limited scale noticed yesterday,
and in the open market a good demand is still
experienced, but the supply of money has increased, and in
exceptional cases transactions have taken place at a frac-
tional reduction from the Bank minimum. The bullion
operations at the Bank to-day were unimportant, but there
is still a prospect of further withdrawals to pay for silver
on the Continent. The Foreign Exchanges this afternoon
were in most cases decidedly lower, bills being in great
demand, as a medium of payment of the enormous quanti-
ties of silver which are in course of withdrawal from the
Continent.—Daily News City Article Tuesday Evening.
The English Funds opened steadily to-day, at the im-
proved prices of last evening, and seemed likely to expe-
rience a further advance, but a number of speculative sales
were made on foreign aceount, and a reduction took place,
the market closing with a heavy appearance, on a report
that Austria dissents in some manner from the propositions
for a Congress. A slight increase in the demand for money
likewise tended to check the previous disposition to buoyancy.
Times City Article, Tuesday Evening.

IS ENGLAND RESPONSIBLE FOR AMERICAN

SLAVERY ?
TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMES,

Sir,—Having perused the letters which have
appeared in your columns by, and in answer to,
" Young America," will you permit me a word or
two with respect to a matter which those who have
combatted " Young America's " arguments have
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being accessories to that which they brand as a
crime and incessantly blame the Americans for.
" Young America " has shown, most convincingly,
that the English are the great supporters of slavery.
No one, that I am aware of, has fairly met this
charge. The English could, if they would only
cease to play the contemptible part of busy. bodies
e., attend a little more to their own affairs and
dictate less to their neighbours), render themselves
almost wholly independent of the slaveholder for
cotton and sugar. If they would give the
same care, attention, and encouragement to
the cultivation and production of these com-
modities in India, which are at present, and have
long been bestowed on opium, not only would
cotton be cheap, plentiful, and of good quality, but
there would be an immeasurably better demand for
our manufactures amongst the nations of the East,
whilst at the same time, by destroying the present
high demand for American cotton, we should lower
the value of the slave, and bring abolition within

the range of possible realisation. -
" Stop," says Young America, on Thursday last,
" Stop the cotton importation for twelve months,
and the price of the slave will drop the first yevr
to five hundred dollars, continue the prohibition the
next year, and he will fall to two hundred dollars,
and keep it out of the country the third year, the
negro would not be worth the nails in his coffin."
England is voluntarily keeping up American slavery;
she is, therefore, as guilty as those she so rigorously
and continuously condemns • but she is, in
addition, guilty of a trade involving equal iniquity,
whilst it is characterised by traits more
infamous than any associated with American slavery.
The Americans don't force their cotton upon an un-
willing nation. Their cotton does not spread debau-
chery, poverty, idleness, crime and death amongst those
who purchase ! At present it becomes us for very
shame to keep silence. By playing the hypocrite,
by a pharasaical assumption of horror and disgust
of others, we only excite the anger and contempt. of
those to whom we preach: I do not wonder for a
moment, that with our treatment of the natives of
India in view, and recollecting that despicable part
our highest officials played in that dirty recruiting
affair, and for which the chief actor received marked
honour at the hands of our government, Americans
should be excessively indignant with Mr. Grattan,
and other writers of like stamp, who, ignoring the
monstrous faults of their own nation, take every
opportunity--of holding up to the world the pecca-
dilloes and institutions of their neighbours.—Yours,
AN ENGLISHMAN.

BRIGHT I

AND " THE " BUTTERMAN !

(Air—" Villikins and his Dinah.")

Oh I 'tis of a famed merchant who in Liverpool does dwell,
Who supply folks with Butter who want it to sell ;
His name it is Kelly, you scarce need be told,
Whose Butter is worth all your silver and gold.
—Butter-li—Butter-li—Butter-li-day.

Singin'

As Kelly was weighing out Butter one day,
In walks REFORM BRIGHT, and to him did say,
Come leave your shop Kelly, and with me away,
And I'll find you a place with no work and good pay.
—Butter-li—Butter-U—Butter-li-day

Singin'.

Oh no, my brave BRIGHT, that wont suit my mind,
" For to" cut my " old place" I do not feel inclined,
So to you the good pay I will gladly make o'er,
To serve England with Butter a year or two more.
Singin'—Butter-h—Butter-li—Butter-li-day,

That's a good noble Kelly—then John Bright replied,
You're a " Brick," my " old buck," and not to oe bribed;
So, in order your Butter to put to the test,
Send me weekly, henceforward a ton of your best.
Singin'—Butter-li—Butter-li—Butter-li-day