Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-10-24 00:00:00

aINCASTER CATTLE MARKET.—OrdBEIt 22

Go ;.l average supply, of Cattle again, .Leing
eipally Irish stock of good quality, which mac o from
dto £7 10S. 'Mich. Cows, -.C1.1 to £l6 per head. A
much thiuner 'Show df..Sheep exhibited ta-d,,,y, which
found buyers :at—Ewes,. 30s. :to .40s. Lambs, 21s. to
30s. each. Pigs, good sulvl7. ISO alteration in prices.
Strong ones found ready,V4ers, while small ones were.
bad to sell,

L'A‘t SILt COItN MArtli pr:---. Oct; 22

:Good show of farmers' Wheat, and lmsiness 'slow, at
a decline of- Is per -gr.- from the pries of this day
week. South country and, foreign ne&.c4917
'for full rates. Fiour not much 'in (lc:ilia:ld :* t;i ices
unaltered.' :Malting • Barley " 'in fair dthiiand, :at list
week's currency. -Grinding sorts unchanged; Oats
rather easier- to buy- . Lar,'e arrivals from. Scotland
cqming to hand. Beans andPeas.notomuib. dping, and
unchanged. Weather fine : sharp trostl-,--71-tdk,
S'kes, and Co.'s report.

CARLISLE CORN INIARKET.--OcT.

The .-apply of Wheat is -large, tly.? C.ctuaii.l good, and
prices fully equal to those of last week. Oats are mucl:
the same as last week : supply fair. Barley in goolde-
mand, at. 6(.1. to:is. advance.

C ORK „CORN MARK ET.-0 CT0P.70,11
White Whezt, 275.; 11,)(1, 21s, to 245. ; 13s
to 14s. ; :Darlf; lls. 6d. to 13s

GLASGOW IRON MARKET.—OCT. 22.
Market active. No. 1, Makers'. Iron, and No. 3,
51s. 6d. to 51s. ; 17-arfaats, 51s. Sd. to 51s. ),.1*

iILL:-1

In defiance of recent appearance,:, which seemed
to ?point at'a peaceful' solution Of the disptifes he-
tw, c 3, pain ra1d:11)rocco, it seems DOW that the
mi,.-Iderstanding is to be submitted to the arbi-
tit-meat of arms. The Spanish Government has
declared to ilh2 C.)rted'that. it is gaing to begin
war with MoroccO.

The decfaratfOn of the' Prem;.,:r's accredited
organ,of the :press, .t.hat. the Emperor. Napoleon
" has undertahat special protection of the
Papal GoyernMent, and also of Italian libel•ty,"
-whilSt Papal 'power and Italian 'liberty are at
open warfare, indicates, pretty plainly, the great-
- difficulty in which his Majesty must find himself
at the present moment. There is.no doUbt that
co-operate With France in the pro-
t-::ction of the Papay ; and, on the othei'',lrliml,
::12.re is as little doubt that all the " Italian
liberty" party; Yinoinding, may presume, the
troops of Sardinia, and thosr! of Garibaldi,
enter the field in resistance of iLliat ewer. A
-fiercer war than before would thus appear to be
impending'.

Sardinia, it' will be seen, is endeavouring to
contract a44ler loan of one hundred millions of
francs, by means of alienation of Ren tes, on the
public debt; to that amount. The object of this at
the present con tincture can s:',7,reely be Mistaken.
Wc; give, in another column, en abstract of the
new regulations relating to 'ip%l elections,
as provided for in the recent Act of, Parliament.
One of these regulations, it will be seen, requires
a seven days! notice to the Town Clerk, for giving
which, on the present occasion, to-day cyloaday)
is the last day. There arc other regulations which
it is most important shonld be attended to, and it
may be useful.to remind those more inareediatAy
concerned of their now being in force..
Recent in!elligenee from India makes it more
than probable that the veteran Lord Clyde,
instead of returning to his native country to
enjoy the fruits of his numerous and exhausting
labours, will. be* called on to head an efficient
force for the purpose of bringing the Chinese
Government to a sense of the obligations incurred
by treaties; and also of sh2Wing that Government
that how little scorer it may care for the lives of
its soldiers, the Governments of Europe are
determined to ''.resist and .punish any wanton
attack on their armies or navies.

Few things afford more_ general and more truly
national gratification in this country than a know-
ledge of the fact that , the scions of our Royal
'House are se deporting theniselVes as to evince" a
training and.dispositionin_unison with the practi-
cal good feeling and good sense which actuate. our
people. This feeling-must re aeive rau ch gratification
from the fact that Prince Alfred promptly on his
arrival at SIDYFIa, put hialsClf in connection with
the authoriti6S of the Simma and ANL Railway,
and that he in fact became personally an in-
terested _spectator of the progress of the great
work. That his reception was enthusiastic, might
have been expected, and the full gratification of that
anticipation will, in all probability, lead to further
displays of .reciprocal interest between the go-
vernment of that einpire , and the commercial
intelligence of this country.
The puzzling uncertainty which has so fre-
quently arisen as to the immediate employment
' and ultimate destination ot the Great • Eastern
was supposed to -be overcome. That uncertainty,
-however, - appears to -have re-arisen ; and while
it now seems certain. that the great ship will not
cross the Atlantic this year, it 'is algo made evi-
dent that the-directors of the company by which
she is owned have not made up their minds as
to how she is to be immediately employed.„ ,So
far as present indications suggest she seems likely
to pass the winter at Southampton, most probably
with a view to ,her starting. early, iii the spring'
upon some oceanic voyage.

ROMAN CATHOLIC Europe is at present suffering a
deep internal and external agitation. One thing
is at least evident, that she still retains a respect-
able amount of political life and power of. stub-
born resistance. • Yet the aspect which she
presents cannot be said to be either healthy or
imposing. The Jupiter that sits on the Seven
Hills nods with scarcely more effect than to show
how little shaking of the nations even that nod
can produce. The lightning shoots athwart the
political horizon, but is almost as harmless as
the flashes that play in a serene sky. Alloca-
tions pour from the Vatican, in which the vo-
cabulary of denunciation Seems exhausted, but the
,esqtqpedalia verba strike on the common ear
much as stage thunder diversifies, with a mock
'sense of the sublime, the ennui of the play-goer.
It is necessary to the representative consistency
-6f-the piece,—that is all ; and perhaps no one
mould say that 'altogether the Roman piece is
put "fiadly on the stage. Nearer home, almost
harsher fulminations float across the water from
provincial bishops ; and curses, which perhaps do
not rest upon their devoted object, but return to
their authors in the shape of troublous dreams.
And lastly, the jealousy and vigilance of Louis
NAPOLEON have even found it necessary to
put a curb upon the uncompliMentary pre-
sumption of his traditional flatterers, the
French Bishops. But if these political demon-
strations are not imposing in their external
aspect, neither can they be looked upon as
healthy signs of internal vitality. These are
not the weapons wherewith the Saints " subdued
" kingdoms." This is not the panoply in which
faith wrestles with principalities and powers.
In' All this hurly-burly of secular warfare, these
crafty devices of statesmanship, this dependence
on brute force, these curses of high-handed but
thwarted power, we scarcely discern the signs of
that. " victory which overcometh the.world." Nor
yet can we ate any justification for these male-
,
(lietions of an authority confident in its unini-t

peachable claims, in the jealous and severe
safe-guards with which the - earlier Church
fenced- the doctrines' of the faith, and repelled
the dangerous perversions of heretics. Spiritual
-7eapons find but a sorry and- inadequate "em-
ployment in the enforceinent-of political claims.
Priestly anathemas were scarcely Meant. to be
hurled at the head of those -Who question the
secular wisdom or judicious statesmanship of the
priest. A solemn council of the whole Christian
body throughout the world holds a different
stand point from that .of a Roman Sovereign;
though in another :aspect of his character
that Soereign does arrogate to himself the
-6-ffice' of universal' Bishop. Although, there-
fore, the ,Church of Rome, exhibits at this
crisis of her fortunes a great vis inertii, she is
turning towards the general gaze that side of, her
character which least challenges the , admiration,
and can no longer awaken the fears of mankind.
Of course, she tells us that the intogrity :of her
faith is, in some remote, and, impalpable way,
bound un with the maintenance of her political
naosition. But this kind of far-reaching logic, and,
power of discovering feeble analogies, is a common
art of zealous ecclesiastics ; and the world is un-
willing,--perhaps too unwilling, to follow them in
their long and elaborate explications. What they
do see plainly, and wonder at reflectively, is, that
which draws forth Se .much ready zeal; seems
to be the familiar topic falling in most naturally
with the 'genius of their every day religion; and
to take the colours of their accustomed habits of
thought, are those political interest: which the
temporal sovereignty of their chief Bishop has
created and is to sustain. Romish Bishops do
not think that they are at all descending into an
unpleasant and unworthy necessity, when they
find themselves tossing up all this dust, and
going throned' all these frantic rounds in a
political arena: It evidently falls in with their
religious tastes. They go to it with a gusto.
They are fighting for the great ideal in their
They, are, in their element. This
is 'a great service for GOD. This is a confessor-
ship for a pre-eminent principle. This is a pro-
per exertion of high and indelible attributes.
The zeal which might have been hesitating, the
anxiety which might have been cold, if the faith
of NIccEA were called in 'question, wax hot and
furious indeed,'when men are disposed to look
With favour on the aspiration:; after good govern-
pent in a few paltry SOtes where a Pope is
made a p-appet, and worldly-minded cardinals
rule.

minds.

And. is it so ? Will the Church of Rome tell
us that the apple of her eye is touched, when her
political supremacy over a Miserable tract of Ita-
lian territory is impugned? Is faith vanishing
from the earth and Anti-Christ at hand, because
national life is striving in one corner of Italy, as
in many other places, to burst through the forms
of a worn-out and oppressive system ? On the
contrary, we tell her that never does .she wilfully
throw away so much real influence as when she
identifies herself with many of the meanest pas-
sions of mankind, ar.-1 represents her interests as
based on political and territorial rights. Expe-
rience has taught her that she cannot wield the
two swords. They interfere with each other.
Infallibility has not taught her the secret which
can harmonise the double power. Let her give
it up as a hopeless case. What is her gain ? She
is fast descending, in her corporate capacity, into
a mere political engine, rather than a spiritual
instrninent. She is developing more and more
into a huge and monstrous system, that curse of
sonls,-religious party spirit: The object of Reli-
gion is to bring Heaven upon earth. But the
policy of the Court of Rome, which seems now
inspiring all its spiritual servants, and distorting
all spiritual effort, is setting up that domain of
SATAN, a religiou.s and sanctimonious world.

WHEN LOUTS NAPOLEON was elected President
of the French Republic, it was considered a
mark of his sagacity and penetration that, after
having enlisted on his side the feelings of
the army, he used his best efforts to conciliate
and engage the sympathies of the Church,

and to obtain its support. The Emperor,
fortified on the one hand by the temporal,
and on the other by the spiritual Powers, was
enabled to effect that coup d'etat which paved the
way to the Imperial throne he now occupies. It
would be inconsistent with that importance which
he once evidently attached to the countenance of
the Church, if he cast aside her favour now, unless
he felt himself too strong to need the aid of her
approbation, as being no longer useful to his
views. The reproof which he administered to
the AiCiIBISTIOP OF BORDEAUX has provoked
an active antagonism, which, in the confidence
of his own power, he did not expect
to see raised up against his dynasty. The
Ultramontane party has shown itself quite ready

to accept the gauntlet he has so hastily thrown
down. Warnings may be issued against the
Press, such as forbid the publication of any epis-
copal or ecclesiastical protests against the Bor-
deaux manifesto ; yet in spite of these the priests
privately circulate remonstrances which cannot
be publicly announced. The " eldest son of the
Church," seeing the hostility which he has raised
up against himself, from either policy or com-
punction, evidently desires to make an amende ;
and this, we think, may be read in the Emperor's
refusal to receive the deputation from the
o
Romagnese, which waited on him at Paris, while
he graciously gave audiences to those from
be ep the
l
temsmra
Modena, Parma, and Tuscany. The only reason
Rowhmy
agthnaetse
revolt refusal
jurisdiction of the POPE and his Legatine
States. The annexation of the other Italian
States which have ex.pclica their rulers,
eusal
interfered was made,
ade,
withw as
th because