Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-09-16 00:00:00

THE WAR AND TRADE WITH CHINA

turn-outs.

The coroner's :inquest upon the bodies of the
sufferers by the 'explosion on board the Great
Eastern has been ;farther adjourned till to-morrow.
The repairs are .to be completed within three

There was leis excitement in the Tea market yester-
day, after tha delivering of the China letters • but prices
showed increased firmness.
It is stated in the city article of the Herald, that the
overland advices have not- exercised any fresh influence
on the value of Calcutta and China produce in'
Mincing-lane. The little effect that the outbreak of
hostilities appears to have on the Tea trade at the prizi:-
cipal Chinese ports has tended to check the excitement
'which the telegrams induced here ; but the 'firmness of
the market is, on the other hand, sustained by the un-
favourable tenor of the crop accounts. -
The Times says, the mercantile letters from China
generally concur in the 'view that renewal- of hostilities
will not be attended by any material -interruption -of
trade. A. blockade of the various ports would soon,' it
is believed, bring the Emperor to submission ; but thus,
by depriving Great Britain of a heavy portion of its
customs' revenue, would be equally disagreeable to both
parties. The question, however, is suggested, whether
the English should go on paying duties to the Chinese,
which in Shanghai alone amount to £500,000 per
annum? But, in that case, the contingency has to be
considerd, that the Chinese might retaliate by ordering
an entire suspension of business with foreigners at the
various ports, although such a measure would be faial
to themselves, since it would, practically, have the same
effecL as a blockade.

MA NCHESTER SHARE MARICET.SEpr. 15.
DOvers, 22/ 9-16 ; Leeds, 95k; Eastern Counties,
llk ; Trunks, 8 11-16; Midlands, 104.

BOROUGH HOP MARKET.-SEPT. 15

Market firm for good and 'fine new Hops, and full
prices. All other kinds moved off slowly at former
terms. Duty called £270,000

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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1859

THE DAY'S NEWS

A Cabinet Council has been summoned for
to-morrow (Saturday). It is, of course, Impos-
sible to state what the subject to be considered
may be, but conjecture points to the late disaster
in China as one matter likely to receive attention:
The excitement occasioned by the recent disas-
trous news from China, is beginning, it appears,
to subside since it is ascertained that the Chinese
could never have prevailed against the allied
squadron, but by the perfidious surpriie to which
they had recourse. Hostilities will have to be
renewed,if only in order to bring them to reason.
But the China letters received concur in the opinion,
that the outbreak will not be attended by a ma-
terial interruption of trade. The Admiralty has
issued its list of killed and wounded in the affair
at the mouth of the Peiho, which does not, on
the whole, materially differ from that already
published. _ . _

it only sympathises
will be first wrought upon by envious misrepre-

sentation of interests not obviously connected

with their own. Though, at the same time, they
will be furnished with sufficiently plausible com-
mon-places of sophistry, to enable them to propa-
gate their new views. The people of England
will be -divided into two portions, the taxers and
the taxed.. The first will be taken as adequately

represented by the aristocracy. Nor will one
other assumption be spared to complete the case,
and that is, that the taxers' have been all this
while heaping up their exactions for their own
benefit. The conclusion is therefore obvious.

Every artifice having been employed to inflame
class hatreds, the only comprehensive remedy

will easily suggest itself

;—namely, to make one

class, and that the lowest in the State, supreme

and to subordinate every interest of the commu-

nity to the arrangements of a blind and reckless

majority

This is the way in which the material welfare
of the lower orders is connected with the exten-
sion of the suffrage. And this is the way in
which great changes begin in sophistry, and end
in revolution and ruin.

English aid for Italy, it will be seen, is about
to be invoked anew, under the auspices of Lord
Shaftesbury, who has accepted the task of form-
ing a Committee, at the instance, it is stated, of
several Italian gentlemen of eminence, residing
in England.

The builders' strike, it is satisfactory to find, is

gradually being overcome, by the master builders was -given to the demonstration by the fact, that—perty generalbr. It is certainly more necessary
succeeding in obtaining hands from among the one, promoted to the office of steward at the that a man. Should have a cheap house, than that
It is calculated that nearly 2,000 dinner, had been branded by the election com- he should.smoke tobacco, drink spirits or beer, or
operatives have gone to work this week in London. mittee as a notorious briber, and only his agency indulge in any other luxuries. The taxes upon

denied by the very person who now bestowed spirits, wine, malt, hops,. anti tobacco, produce
uponthim the post Of honour, and gave him the upwards of twenty-four.millions--nearly One half
pledge of partnership and friendship ? But of the total revenue of this country; and no erre.
the .speech of the prominent leader of all— can pretend to say, that a rise in the price'
" the head and front of this great of- of any of such articles raises the: rate of wagesr
fending"--this single speech, albeit affecting as is the case when there is an increase of price in
some degree of moderation, and evidently deliv- the necessaries of life. A population which can.
eredswith some consciousness of a larger audience pay indirectly such an amount as that just givenr
than tthe one before him, is sufficient as a sample cannot have any reasonable grounds of complaint
of the teaching which is now to turn the heads against the class to which their animosity is

of the working classes throughout the land. directed by the Radical party, as not contributing,
As we said the other day, the mob does not reason, both directly and indirectly, their fair quota to
Their sympathies, therefore, the expenditure of the country..