Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-10-22 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARBE T.-0 CTOBER 21.

This week Price paid Cur Prices
Description. this week mid. fair. Stock
Import Sales
1258 -510 Sea Island... 6id a2O 12ad 0.141
12960 Upland
9850 M0bi1e364160
4105
20680 New Orleans 3t
81
10i 7h 7
2430 Brazil 7 9 8 17840
1280 1460 Egyptian 62 l 0 73/4 8 16170
West India 7 71 190
2647 10920 East India 34 53 44 5 93280
- ,-
33310 5BBlO I Total 491640

A large business continues to be daily transacted in
our Cotton market, both the trade and exporters being
extensive operators ; but holders still evince a great
desire to progress with sales, and meet the demand so
freely, that the market displays no animation, and prices
of American continue unchanged ; Brazil and Egyptian
without change ; Surat tending to fay.-,ur the seller. The
weekly sales are 58,810 bales, of which 2,300 are on
speculation, and 8,020 for export.

THE SCOTCH PIG IRON TRADE.—The number of fur-
naces now in blast is 120. At the commencement of the
year the total was 132. The shipments now being made
from Scottish parts are slightly below 10,000 tons per
week.
A DIFFICULTY WELL MET.—The Aberdeen Journal
has the following:—"Our spirited neighbour the 7.laq/-
shire Reporter, came out, half-Size on Saturday fort-
night, and contained a request that the subscribers
would accept it gratis, as the compositors in the office
had taken a fit of drunkenness, and left the office
empty. As might be expected, this: shameful couduct
on the part of the workmen called forth their mployer's
indignant denunciations. But the week folkwmg we
find the paper make its appearance as usual, but with
the following notice :---‘ The Reporter of this week is
entirely composed by ourselves and our family, and bah-
scribers will, it is hoped, on that account, excuse errors.'
We are bound to say thattohueatel„
workmanship. was only less
creditable than the spirit and resolution wAth which diffi-

THE DAY'S NEWS.

There is likely, it seems, to be a war,' after
between Spain , and Morocco. The Moorish
emperor has, at the last moment, made such an un-
satisfa•Aory declaratiOii, it is said, that the Spanish
-GOvernMerii has now resolved to have recourse to

iI,IIIIS.
One of the difficulties of her Majesty's Govern-
ment, Alt the present moment„ it is believed, re-
lates to,tho approaching Congress at ,Brussels, on
Italian affairs. ftWouldappear- that'a majority..of
the Cabindfremains decidedly opposed to entering a
Congress.on the subject, upon any such basis as
that of the. Zurich treaty.' The Premier's daily
organ of press asserts, it will be seen, that
it were an, idle trifling with the of ,of
" England, and the hopes of Italy, to expect that,
" in this country, any Statesman at all worthy of
"the name, would hazard-his own reputation, and
" the national 'honour intrusted to his care, by
" entering such a Congress."
Five Cabinet Councils haVe now been held
within six days, The Premier, and the Chan•
cellor of the Exchequer, were both-absent from
that held on Wednesday, but at the Council
.on'
the following day, they, again made their ap-.
'pearance.

It will be seen by the results of the revision
of the South Lancashire electoral list for the.
Hundred of West Derby, which we give in
another column, that there is a total Conser—
vative gain, in the five townships, of nearly one
thousand voters. This, with the other .gains
throughout this division of the county, renders
its retention in the Conservative interests so sure
for the future as must discourage, one would
think, all idea of opposition on the part of the
Liberals:
'. The important question of Church-rates was
again brought under considereration and discus-
sion last night, at a meeting held in the school'
room belonging to St.. Paul's
.Church, Prince's-
park. The meeting, which was numerously at-
tended, was addressed by the Rev. Dr. M'Neile,
who, in his remarks, pointed out the untenable
nature of the objections taken by dissenters
against payment of Church-rates. He argued,
and by his arguments showed distinctly, that
as a charge upon property, all property acquired
by dissenters, or any other parties, was purchased
under condition of that burden, which if struck
off, would only enhance the money-value of that
property by the propOrtionate value of the rate
so struck off. The meeting was also addressed by
the Rev. Dr. Hume, and . other clergymen. ,A
resolution was adopted expressive of the opinion
that an abolition of Church-rates, without some
compensating equivalent, would be unjust.
In . another portion of to-day's paper we
chronicle the funeral obsequies of Robert Stephen-
, son,:Rar exCellence the Engineer of his day. The
'loss of such a man is an event in the way of
national bereavement, and as such all right-
minded men must look in solemn contemplation
en the scene and its remarkable concomitants.
The past history of • the family of ' Stephenson,
though compriSing only a brio i' 7ri :0,1 in Vat- lqnse
cf time, is nevertheless irnmlasc 'a its connection
fal(:;.;:i. Only about i.._-,l',:se-quartiarki of a

century have elapsed since a poor, uneducated;
but .singularly industrious lad received permission
to " tend" the working of a steam engine,
in the neighbourhood of Newcastle. - The
was unfurnished -.With worldly means ;-
was entirely without influential friends and
had no knowledge of the resources which lay
within his own teeming brain. To work he set,
however, resolved to overcome the obstacles which
his own ignorance interposed between him and a
full knoWled_ge of the mighty implement he had
the care of. Difficulties vanished before the
unflinching energy of his investigation._ He
mastered the instrument he had charge of, and
did more. He synthetically devised one to sur-
pass in wondrous application all the marvels
achieved by its predecessor. He perfected the
mechanism of railways, and constructed a machine
by 'which they could be made to revolutionise, and
by revolutionising improve the intercourse of the
world. In other words, he invented and rendered
practical the railway locomotive engine. He did
still more than all this, however, perceiving how
much he lacked of elementary training, he gave
to his son so much of this latter, aided by his own
pre-eminently practical sagacity as enabled that
son to perfect a system of motive action, such as
no epoch of the world ever witnessed or even
dreamed of—to perfect the arrangements of rail-
way operation. Yesterday saw the mortal
remains of that son entombed among the
men whom the British people delights to
honour. How beautiful and how inviting an
illustration of the wholesome working of our
constitution was here exhibited. " Many great
men," says the Globe, " have been buried in West-
minster Abbey, but we have no records of such
a scene as that which we witnessed this morning.
Public interest had been awakened, and people
flocked by thousands to the Abbey to witness
the solemn ceremony." After such a scene
who shall say that, in this country, merit
meets with no adequate reward ? It is true that
in this country no theatrical eulogium is poured
upon the grave of departed greatness ; but the
tribute of national appreciation and gratitude is
not less rendered by the silent admiration of a
thankful people, such as that which yesterday
honoured the last indication of respect contributed
in memory of-Robert Stephenson.
Italian difficulties and dangers. appear to con•
tinue, if not to multiply. It is now rumoured
that Neapolitan troops have been landed at
!Ancona, and considerable excitement is also said
to prevail in Piedmont, occasioned, it, is averred,
by dislike to the conditions of peace agreed upon
At Zurich.

Tip; Italian anoTc aly becomes more inexplicable,
and even more grotesque,'as it is made to assume
more and, more the character of a diplomatic
arrangement. Was there ever peace signed
before; the articles of which will have to be
conquered by another war; the.formal conditions
of which are nothing but speculative proba-
bilities ? The position is such as to baffle all the
logic of international jurists, and actually to turn
he diplomacy of two powerful Emperors into
the serious trifling of children. The Zurich
treaty is based, upon an Italy intact, except as
regards the portion of 'Lombardy up to the ac-
cepted frontier line. Not a hint does it give of
the doubtful position of the Duchies, or of the
forfeited allegiance of the States of• the Church.
It is taken for granted, that things are much as
they were, and that what has been deranged in
the inevitable confusion, will soon right itself,
and, without external pressure, fall into the old
groove. But at the very time this farce or
fiction is being enacted, a perplexing sort of
bye-play is going on in which one of
the actors is not wholly unconcerned,
and which is nothing but a counterplot to the
jwhole arrangement. Whether from feelings of
humanity, or from motives of self-interest, there
is no doubt that Louis NAPOLEON, has, in a man-
ner, coquetted with the revolted provinces of
Italy, and has countenanced VICTOR EMMANUEL
in the same course of conduct. If there were no
suspicion of French complicity, there would be
little difficulty to Austria in re-establishing the
banished governments, or at least little delay in
adopting measures for their restoration. The
perplexity of the case is this, that the French
Eniperdr has to sustain the character of friend to
VICTOR EMMANUEL, as well as to FRANCIS
JOSEPH ; and that the memory of late achieve-
month, as well as the prestige of the great "idea,"
will not suffer him to snub the national but ille-
gal demonstrations of the revolted Italians. But,
in ordinary circumstances, countenance afforded
to this after - movement of the national party
• should •be a very decided cause of disagreement
between France and Austria. What was the
meaning- of the peace so abruptly concluded
or prepared for at Villafranca, if its condi-
tions are to be violated ? Why did Louis
NAPOLEON regret his inability to accomplish
:his mission, if, before the eyes of himself and
his old enemy, it is to be accomplished by
' other hands ? Why should it have been the
cause of a stunted and disappointing' arrange-
ment, that the French army were usable to wrest
all her Italian possessions from Austria, if the
efforts they were obliged to relinquish, other hands
are encouraged to continue ? The revolutionary
; movement in Central Italy, Louis NAPOLEON
patted upon the back, openly encouraged to
labour and to hope, and to wait the promise
of better things. If, then, he has been unwillingly
compelled to withdraw his assistance and leave
the rebels in the lurch,—ordinary fair dealing and
honesty, it would appear, call upon him to offer
a decided opposition to the continued revolt,
and throw his influence, unreservedly, into the
Austrian scale.

We must say, that if Louts NAPOLEON was
unable to surmount the circumstances, and was
mastered by unexpected. difficulties, Austria
-,y5,11,1 it runz the ail; of Leing vio-
'occupies bwauehtda ae humiliatingtvreeratoyi
enforcing,which p
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isrtiahtnieocrne .hSa hse
materially
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brought to the necessity of accepting from France
a
intention
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