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thousand ten:ll)les, Sabbath after 'Sabbath

inflame

soften:

has felt the „
heart, or that felt that heart lifted up, as .the words
_of praise passed forth from willth

ups, can
ervices

.one word of depreciation of those. _
.humble, many earnest souls to-day, do feel • that
they are wiser, better, stronger, for the -battle
.of life, because they have prayed to God and joined with
others in singinc, his praise. But the matter to he com-
plained of is, that praise and prayer stand for religion
without being it. They are often a righteousness which
does not exceed the righteousness of the Scribes and
Pharisees, and cannot therefore, cuter into the Kingdom
of Heaven. • They are many; it must be confessed, who
go on this mode of praise and prayer. There is a wide
spread social immorality to be found in men who 0.0. to
;church and praise God, but do not always think that they
are, therefore, bound to go into the Exchange, into ;the
away into the service of government, to obey

;IN of always does it happen, that to those.fr

in prayer belong tt
deeds

peat in. goi

The *truth is, that men who prai.
o not always. worship God. _

worship t
love God

which they love
worship him, an

If they
low that

they worship him by yieldin

obedient

:i.; the laws- of him

love the

objects of word,

ad. ea

chief good, then be sure it sta
their worship to God is onl

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sedulously (foes a human bein6,
objects in his heart, yield upon their altar, God,
and Truth. Yea, men worship that which they love
most. • The world.has sought happiness from below. It
has been supposed that religion apart—human skill,
energy, and per;:eyerence, could go far to make a
heaven of this yi
piness of its i

Id to complete the hap:-

society, were thotO
'This happiness was
lotion, with Tuohy fact

'oliticai economy, and sound

the wants of men

- scarcely Tailed to
attempted to show, how
become happy, that
unimportant
being excluded from the scheme. Histo.,
a record of the efforts of philosophers and law_
build up a heaven on earth withiint God. But revolu-
tions passed over the world like a hurricane, a monarchy
made, and then destroyed;
teimblies are established;
laws are enacted and repealed—huts when these reat
_o done, the world beholds with astonishmentg that

I truth, pintos°,
t least they

world mi

mnd upora:ear.tn

nt, relig

It is a failure this effort to make the woad good
by external influences. Long ago vre had stated, in clear
and simple words, "Lo ! here, or lo l there, the kingdom
of God is within you." Aye, within you; in the love
that ought to enlist your service in the truth—that
ought .to lead you to deeds of goodness and of duty.
There within you lies the kingdom of God,
if anywhere, and surely the world might-have learnt by
this time that when the laws of God become dominant
in the human heart, then and nottill then will the world
obey them. Should it be said that religion is opposed
to these external matters ? Not so; it would be a very
fallacious view of the world_ and society,' to suppose that
because religion is that curative which reaches the diseases
that, therefore, it was opposed to the application of theso
external means. No, let government advance in the
progress of ameliorating the external conditions of the
word. Let not comrnetol cease to exert its influence on
the community in the work of freedom, serviee'and benefit.
Let that commerce, ns it were by a firm grasp of hands
between nation and nation, link each to each by mutual
benefit and good will. Let science advance in its process
of investigation, and let art take up what science-effects,
and arkTtit to the service of Mari. Let these things' go
lot the foe of human progress,
' helplessly by in the advance of

oa ; rei
it aoes

ion is

that civilisation which has snow for some' centuries
hail inch u beneficial effect. Religion does not say to
government, to commerce, to industry, or science, or .art,
th it they are vain things, but desires to inspire thern.A,vitli
vinvs high and holy, and to make them bright with the
glory of heaven and of God. Xe.; religion does not stand
opposed even to chose pleasures and delights whiih have
for their tendency the relaxation of life, and to renew our

energ .es-for earliest duty. Religion could not tird in the
way of our work to be done; but without takiugTrom that
delight and that pleasure, any of the joy which may be
theirs, religion could main: the body a servant of the
soul, and reverse that disorder which so largely asserts
itself, and which makes the soul a mere slave or drudge
to the body, and fit the character into the image and
likeness of God; it would reverse that disorder which has

•actually, and which has asserted

itself over so'many minds, and would make the body the
servant of the soul and the world. No, rcligiOn is not
the the of external progress. It would be, indeed, a sad
thing if we were compelled to say that • the inward.
growth of the spirit 'of man was antagonistic' to the
outward growth of cifilisation. Net' so, however, it'is the
'companion of all that is great and o'ood. • External im-
provements go hand in hand with the growth of the
heart of man in the 'likeness of God. Blessed'be God
that he has so made the world, that he should bid, us
first seek the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and
then all other things will be added unto it—all the
glories, all the joys of this vast and wonderful universe.
Now, if religion is designed thus to influence-life, how
may it do so ? What 'is the life of which we all speak
so much, and seem to know so little ? We appreciate
ft when it comes on the day of battle, in the rustlin,,
onset of contending hostS, and the roar of cannon, and
the clash of steel. We can appreciate life when hostile
fleets are arranged against each other, and the throats of
many guns do hurl defiance each against the other. We
appreciate life'and the power of life in these great insti-
tutions of human power we find in cities, and in the

emporiums of trade and commerce ; but then that life is
so indulged in, they seem to forget that they
have a soul 'at all, and live for the body only:
But what is life ? Out of the heart are all the
issues of life. Down in the human will are fotind
the loves and affections which are the source of all
powir of the life on earth. 'There dwells that. full
ambition- which, rushing outward, fills the world with
war and carnage. There dwells that great avarice which
compels the human spirit to drudge from life to death
for that which is nothing. There dwells that 'high affee-

tion which prompts a man to sacrifice himself that so ho
may serve his fellows. Out of the heart come all laws
and institutions; out thonccflows good legislation, com-
merce, trade, and all the institutions that sarrsund us.
From that human heart, life in all its forms flows forth.
If from government or political life there be an absorb-
prepared. often to sacrifice the
lterest and elevation, out from

inn ambition stani

public good to privet

the heart it conies. If there be in trade chicanery and
deceit;
.if now and then a • panic sweeps over the world
like a hurricane, shaking your mercantile housei even
of the strongest build to their foundations, out from that
human heart, filled with the love of getting rich in haste,
comes this commercial storm. If your prisons are filled
with eriminals—,if you look for corruption in any institu-

tion, in your homes, in your trade,, your industry, your
commerce, that corruption will be. found to have its source
from the human heart out from man it comes ; and if you
have institutions which express-benevolence and the love of
others—and there are such in this world of ours, gloomy
as it there arc blessed beings who.go,about the
world !scattering benefits, if there are those who yield
theniselve3._iT living sacrifices to • others, ministers of

thus see
the heart
God has

ken (

the
and, lik

purified

it issues from
halo it surrounds those whom
What is the world ? - man ex-

good of others,

pressed, What is England, but -Englishmen 'fixed in
institutions andlaws ? .What is England's Weakness and
feeblotless ? It is these gamlish hearts of ours: What is
England's, corruption? The corruptness of these hearts
of ours—living away fir from God. - Yes, it
,will be
found that out of the hearts of men come all good and
evil that curses and blesses mankind. Hence it is that
religion can touch life in all its parts, by touching life at
its centre.. If the human heart be the source of all these
various forms of life which exist about us, then it is clear
that if that human heart be changed, out of that.centre
changes eNerywher,> not plain that in

purifying the fountain, we purify th
out of the fountain. Religion thus

that issue
s. to, change the

world

at home,

THE NORTHERN TIMES, WEDNESDAY, rtBRUARt 16, 1859

of religion 'upon life. We trace it back to this influence
which was exerted in ages gone by. It is quite true that
all honest minds draw back from such repulsive teaching.
We have loosed our chains, and began to shake them off,
and we stand out now to ask of God his further lesson.
The heart, then, is the motive power, but the machinery
is required to put it into action, and to unite the heart
and mind for action, use, benefit, service, and duties, and
kindness to all. As the blood is purified by the lungs,
and sent through the body as a principle of
life, • so does the heart perform the same,' life
giving influence in the moral life. Truth passing
through the mind and the affections, purifying thOn
from defilement, and then outward they issue in both
vigorous and truthful life The great faculty in this
world is measured by this duplex nature. If there be
strength of will and heart both, a strength of mind ;to
guide the will and action, then do we see the nature,
large, strong, and great. History records that one man
of strong will and of mental faculty. did go far to subju-
gate the whole world, and this by his untiring and
vaulting ambition, with concentrated force of will upon
one object, did find with a richly gifted intellect a fitting
instrument for his services and, therefore, great results
came out of this combined activity. If God had
giver to that nature goodness us well as power, the world
had been better 'to-day. Yes, it is not true that faith
alone can save. The word of God says it is not true.
Obedience to God is very difficult under the double eon-
• sciousness of .eur own feebleness, our own sinfulness—
seeing the great gulf thatstands between us and the all-
perfect God, we are ready to sink down in despair, and
say, " Oh, how can-I successfully contend against these
mountains of iniquities that rise, like heaps .on heaps,
between me and my benificent Creator." The
spirit is too feeble—if there be no bye-path to heaven
which can teach it
_by an indirect route to conflict with
these mountainous sins, or achieve a victory over them.
Oh, let us admit that the heart is far away from God;
let us ail-nit the mountainous difficulties in our path ;
let us admit all our feebleness, our many efforts, and
our own failures, but let us not shrink by fortitude into
the belief that a-repentance on the be lof death will bring us
safety, bat at once go t.) that mertiful Father,who is watch-
ful with more than p eternal tenderness over us feeble
creatures, with inguite wisdom, in all perfection; for our
benefit. Let us cast away despair, but not by our strength
is the victory won. That victory would, indeed, be re-
mote if such feeble weakness had to gain it • but trusting=

in Him we may cast . away despair' and advance- wits
heart and spirit firmly, for God is hive ; and is he not
Almighty —has He not iu His spirit to keep us, and
His angels to minister to us ? Let us. throw ourselves;
with faith and trust, into the great conflicts,
the price of which is our own souls saved, the victory shall
be. ours.. Religious truth has its influence for life. Always
and everywhere are some religious truths found, even: in
that theology where prayer is' not at all knoWn, and may
appear very remote from the teaching with regard to
duty, but if examined more closely it becomes more plain
that these truths bear. down directly upon the issues of
life. •• .The mathematician sitting in his study:
developes truths that seem remote from our daily,
work, but a Watt rises and seizes a beautiful truth;
and couples it with the mighty steam-engine, and lo !
the studies of the mathematician have their weight
in the great agency of modern civilisation. The inves-
tigations of the astronomer in the starry heaven seem far
away from this sublunary world ; bat every sailor who
sails from this and every other port, can testify how much
they owe to these services ; and so science, rightly seen,
though remote from the day,.is yet, when art seizes its
truths, and fixes them in iron and in stone for the service
of our' humanity, among • the grandest truths that
man can know in helping him to arrive at the knowledge
of the nature of God, which is the deepest wisdom.
In 'use is the. perfect man. God made man after his
own image and likeness ; and if back again we are to move
to the glorious. Eden, -we must rise again to that image
and likeness of God in - ourselves. Love must dwell in
our hearts, and a desire to yield umourselves for the good
of others, then' we shall be' blessed_ in. blessing. Nor.,
must our intellect remain uncultivated : the mind must
give due obedience to.the heart in the right path of life.
Not idly must this intellect stand merely thinking on
outward things, but -mast Join, with the heart in rich
uses, benefits, and services.. ,God has given it to us as a
source of blessing .in our finite sphere, to perform uses
on earth, and that we might direct other souls to God.
The nature of- God is a lesson for life. Think you the
idea of human-redemption is no lesson for life ? Behold,
God loving man, seeing him ready to fall into that
abyss that is ready to annihilate him, foes assaulting
him, and the armies of hell armed .:against him, and
fighting the battle for human transgressions, until, at .
length, Divinity feels that weak humanity is about to be.,
overcome and steps in to the rescue, and then all the,
powers of hell are vanquished. Has not God planted
something of that truth and love in our hearts also. ,In
the world without, as well as in the world within, -there
are temptations; and is there not a redemption to be
Truly, it must be ; but let us.
.enter into the conflict, 'and if we are faithful to him who
redeemed us, then the victory is ours, and our human'.
nature in its finite - measure be glorified; : and the
outward • and the inward life shall .be made new,
and universal redemp.tion be obtained by the
redemption of the individual man. Each re-
ligious truth the most remote, every truth of genuine
Christianity, bears down directly upon life, and the test
of the truth of any theological principle is this :—Will it
bear application to lite—will it carry the fruits of
righteousness ? If it will not' bear this, it is then a
blank parchment; ,thcn is it mere •words, giving us no
faculty to reach the kingdom of God. And as. the papal
bull was once answered by its burning, so we will answer
these presumptuous counsels, these, presumptuous men,
who in a past day did venture to put fetters upon human
intellect, and -burn the parchment .shred. Well, then,
we said the heart was the source of all our evil, and the
source of all the good we enjoy ; that religion had.
.et the world in all its parts, because it
east. The first effect is this, it makes a man
conscious that be is a sinner. Some., men, immediately
upOn this Consciousness, rise and crush the truth with the
3_o_aie become conscious of their sin
but after a little they enter into

wrpnght within u:

power to at
affected the

heart and v..
with fear End tremblin,

lid with the evil and consci
; creeps over them, like that

artic sky; and thus t

toms otigrowinrx•life in
terit6d*i"

and perfect confidence, and of-perft.et - love: Marriage is
on earth—when true,- pure and unstained by -worldly
motive, undefiled by impure thought.—" the highest.
image of that heaven to which we go. It is the cen-
tral heart of home. Children are its stars, lights, and
beauty ; and if -all our homes were pure' if all our homes
were devoted to God, out thence wouldflow, in constant
streams, a purity that would remove all defiletiaent from
the world. Oh'. if 'to-day the homes throughout the
world could be touched by some magic wand, ,if from
thence all worldliness and selfishness could be shut out,
if these homes could be made, as homes ought to be
made, -images of heaVenly trust, and love, and peace,
we should need no further reform of this world of ours.
Out from these homes 'would. go men, filled with good-
ness, to the duties of outward life, forth with the
'strength, and thepeace, and confidence, and the trust, and
the. genial influences that home had communicated to'
their hearts. They would go
.out to the world, which
would be holy, because their homes were holy. But,
alas,,how different is. it ? The children—these God has
giVen theM for heaven—there they are,' incipient, who
are made .to grow in all beauty and strength :in
the likeness; of God. True, their hodies are not cared
for but ,onlyfor the sake of their, soulS;lbut: as.a` nursery
of heaven, in God's sight, hoMe is that region where
should be concentrated all the influences that flow down
from God. There everything should be centred to the one
great end of developing' the heart toboliness. But how
. often is it otherwise ? Mixed with worldly motives and
worldly thoughts, the boy's religion' is 'sometimes left to a
parent, and the .school may supply all he obtains. And
how oftenis the female part of the family regarded as
for some future day to make a splendid match with some
one whose chief recommendation is that of his wealth and
rank. The world comes into the home, making all this
rebellion by. its touch. -When children come to be married,
how much is it they think—how little do they calculate
upon the responsibilities of that great institution which
God. chiefly made to be a source of benefit to man. How
defiled by the consideration that he, allows the body to
rise up and assert its mastery over the soul The home
affections of the heart must be crushed down, and all
sympathy must be put away, so that.the body may live
luxuriously every day, and enjoy itself in the mansions
of the world. Down with the seul; and all its, higher
affections ; perish all love out of that pitying humanitY.
Ah, so it is on the altar of the world. Mammon is wor-
shipped so that the body may live luxuriously. Ilow
many young, and beautiful, and tender-hearted, and,
_genially pure creatures are offered' up, year by year,
to this God, by those who profess to love them !
'Oh, the blindness of man, that he submits to the supre.-
macy of the world Is not, the soul more valuable
than the world? .Is not eternal happiness better than
the dying and fleeting joy? And, oh!: has God not
taught us all in tones that mint ever be heard, and
declared his displeasure of these 'unhallowed lives.
,They,
are marked with all that indicates -evil and wrong. And
the children, too, when religion touches the home, God
is their love, and human souls are there to hear them to
heaven and to. Gkl, and give the heart strength, and
enables them 'to go forth with vigour into the world
to fight the battle of life, and grow up "for GO and
heaven. Is God for our 'homes ? Is the Bible the
voice of God ? Is, it his infinitely lorino• and
all-powerful voice that here speakl/2. Oh, had we that deep'
affection in the hemes of our land, then week after week'
this holy book Would not remain the least. read of all
bookS, but would pour, out its streams of purifying truth
over the domestic circle, and 'strengthen all hearts. Is
religion not to go into th 6 transactions of commerce ?
Has God so made the world that non-success must go with
honesty -has God so' made the world that government
ought to.struggle for self, and not for the, people, and
supremacy in this direction be- coupled' with men
who , , shall 'go' armed with a seared conscience,
with a. heart totally dead to those high. principles
which actuate the mind of the religious Christian.. Has
God so made the world that the regidn in which 'men must
be so generally active, is initself:an instrument for their
spiritual destruction. Can it be said that religion going
with man-into the commercial pursuit:, does not form the
companion of these - pursuits, and give them a higher
Place.
isnot the he/llit in • his' care, secluded from
the world and removed 'from con

that can lay claim to strong and robust virtue
the virtue that springs tcom temptation being absent.
In the marts of the world, in the midst of trials and
temptations ; where 'advantage may be -.seized, and
justice be dethroned ; , where wealth may be accu-
mulated' in golden heaps, if only man is prepared
to sacrifice heaven ; but God in that region, .where
temptation is so powerful, upward may carry the strong
spirit which ever springs from evil resisted. Religion
then -may go into commerce. Truth tells us we can act
always from two motives. The love* of use and the love
of self. If we-are prepared by a love of use, . the love
of benefitting others- and making gaiu subordinate to this
great principle., then, is commerce a mans of blessing to
us; but if we rush into it with the desire of accumulating
wealth for our personal aggrandisement, then is commerce a
curse. Political life has largely become the struggle of parties
for supremacy, and not so much the effort of earnest
men for the common good, Ambition has taken the
place, avowedly and cenfessedly, of the love of country;
love of honour and applause,; and in order, to gain some
position that shall yield thempleasure and ambition,
the;e are the principlei with which . men come into
political life now. These are the principles which spread
revolution over. the world. For the sake of power,
poison and the poinard have been in requisition. 'lntrigue
and trickery have been brought to bear for the sake of
this craving, this absorbing passion. If it is gained by
circuitous and legal routes is none the better for that. Is
it not possible, in this political life, to introduce
the love of country, and make this high patriotism take
the place of wholly personal ambition. Is it not possible
that' truth and-open-hearted honesty shall be the means
of successful action in this direction ? Is the world
become so utterly perverse and corrupt, that God's
justice is no longer at one with it ? 'ls the world become
so that it can only be governed by this traitorous, corrupt
and perverse policy ? I cannot believe this. If God
has made the world at all, we say, it may be governed by
justice and truth. In political life it often happens, that
private character is said to 'have nothing to do with a
man's, public character. That. men of the most
corrupt and' depraved , private . lives may be
regarded ..as patterns in their public career. Away with
such policy. . Out of the heart springs the actions of
men's lives. If he laves his country, he cannot be base ;
and if he be base, is not the country basely served by
him'? Personal purity is the only guarantee'for public
character, and the individual man must be touched at his
heart byreligiousstruth, before his public or political life
reach that high point which is most in accordance with
God's truth, and with the true wisdom Of nations.' Some
men do think they can govern the world by schemes
and intrigues, and do think, by their stratagems they
succqed in saving their country, and circumvent others
bat do not believe it Truth will last longest, and that
policy, whether of nation or individual, founded on the
law of God, will bring with it blessings. Let us be sure
that self-retribution do not come. It comes on man for
doing. evil; so will it come upon the nation who has
followed an unjust course for its own-advantage. It will, at
some time, meet justice ; for the foundation of a nation's
greatness is justice and right, and, on this fmindation it
may build high, for its.foundation is strong. Religion,
then, may enter into political life but only observe, as

iet with temptation,

-, it is a test of the inward character of political men
and of commercial life, as it touches the heart of
commercial men with industrial life, as it enters
into the hearts of workmen, and into our homes, as
it touches the hearts of those who dwell in our homes;
it ' does not act by external forces, but -by internal
agencies. We may then say that religion has relation to
life, because it goes to purify the heart, whence life has
all its issues. Entering into the spirit of man, it removes
all that corruption, whence 'all the corruption of. the
world flows. It would bring as one master and servant ;
it would give the, subject an influence N.VIIICII would make
them' all good . workers for one common end—mutual
happiness and mutual services. It would give to com-
merce a lore of use in all its activities ; to political mon
a love of country,. It would fill science with the thought of
Gad, of whom 'all nature speaks. It would breath into art the
love of the' f.iithful-it would make art itself a minister to
the soul's'progress. It would unite man to man,heaven
to'earth, and all men to God; and it can only prove this
by seizing upon the individual heart. We. think and we
speak of a • gOod time coining; we think a -universal
change is to spread widely and rapidly over the world,
and do not believe it impossible that this change will re-
sult from the • changes in the individual. Each man
changing makes the, world .better. lie is a new link
uniting heaven to earth, and through w

lessings

„ . ,
of heaven 'descend to make the' earth holy.
furthers best the common go.od by furthering his own.
Let not you or I be too anxious to rush about the world,
'as it is called, doing good. Oh let us be a little content
with cleansing our own. hearts from evil. Let us be
content at first with dr' 'd 1,

Each mail

.3ing. our 'duty, with being goon,
rather than :seeming serviceable, and then in our own
place God will make us the means of blessing others ;
and as our power of increasing the radius of our
influence for good will extend, who will say that 'the
world is not made better by one man regenerated and
turned to God. And so from man to man, from, indi-
vidual to individnal,museextend the world's qgeneration.-
Eich man bears .a share of the responsibility, and'
the''whole will never''be changed until each atom.
that goes to make the whole be changed. Can you have
a perfect nation made of wandering' tribe ? Cau you
haVe a granite mountain made of the soft clay ? A
granite mountain is.made up of atoms Which are
of granite; So the world must: be made men ,

pure of themselves. These English hearts of ours
must be changed to the will of God ; and the nations
of the earth must carry out this policy of justice
and truth, to achieve this great object. Each
man must receive into his own heart the same
principles, and be actuated by the same truths. Let
us not look greedily outward, but scattering inward
good will. Let us act well our part here, and be
sure the result.is no phantasm. Shun evil and do good ;
and at length when man, imitating that Saviour that
came down from heaven, when his home becomes a feature
of heaven, and he walking secure in that daily duty,
practising principles of justice, truth, and integrity, and
as nation after nation learns to see that the goodness of
men are only customs, and are led to acknowledge the
„. • _ .
great governing King, so the day will "come when the
kingdoms of this world shall become the kingdoms of
our Lord and his grace, and he shall reign for ever and
ever. AMEN.

ACTS

THE BANK
TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMES

Sir,—The crown has constituted. its Royal Mint
the sole coiner und issuer of pounds sterling,' but,
singularly enough; has not constituted itself the
sole printer and issuer of- Royal Mint or legal-
tender notes, whichl should promise Ito
:pay the
pounds sterling on deniand, but has :delegated this
its 'undoubted prerogative of paper profit to Certain
privileged individuals and corporations, such as
the Banks of England, Ireland arid Scotland, the
• •
Messrs. Spooner and AttWood, of Birmingham,
and other • privileged banks. No*, without
or -in any way interfering. with
the note issues of these banks, except so. far as to
declare them to be non-legal tender, and to be
issued for sums of not less than £5 and upwards,
payable to the bearer or holder:of them on demand.
It would tend to place our currency on a sounder
basis, If these banks and their customers would
have their legal tender notes, as they now.do their
pounds sterling; issued from one source only,
viz., the Royal Mint—because,. as these. Royal
Mint notes and coins would be primarily
issued in the payment of the public expendi-
ture, as ordered by- the House of Commons,
and in the purchase of standard gold bullion, at- its
market or world wide price they could not be
issued in excess of their legitimate circulation—so
long as the public expenditure should not be in
excess of the public revenue, from which. it was'
necessarily defrayed.

Every tub would stand on its own bottom, and
Whether a hank issued its own bearer notes or not,
that - bank, would have to keep' in its till an
adequate and available reserve of pounds
sterling or Royal Mint notes; into which
alone its non-legal tender notes would be
legally convertible, the bearer notes.; ;of the
Royal Mint being issued for sums of -£s'
and upwards, and its exchequer • notes as
described in your paper of . the 9th.. instant,
for sums of one pound and .upwards. -Thus we
should have free trade in bearer notes as fully as
we

lave free trade in corn, and banks generally
would be chary of extending their issues beyond
the legitimate requirements of the district
wherein their notes were accustomed to circulate.
I am, sir; yours, &c., T. F.

GAS
,LAMPS:
TO THE EDIT011:01? THE NORTH-ERN TIMES

Sii; —Will you please allow me, through the
medium of your journal, to call the attention of
the Liverpool Gas Company to the WANT 'of a gas
lamp at the corner of Clevedon-street, and Park
Road -(Toxteth), it being at 'present inefficie—'-
lighted. Hr.-ing occasion

cquentty to pass
that way, induces me to make the.above suggestion.
If the Gas Company will erect an additional lamp
post, it would not be expensive, and would prove
a great boon to :the residents, as well as a great

convenience•(on a dark night) to every

PEDESTRIAN

Liverpool, 15th Feb, 1859,

YESTERDAY'S MARKETS
oprcE.—Cplon*l, &C.: Our

„_„
60 hogsheads Demerara are reported
its Maiititius at 39s 6d to 46s ; 150 bags
?ernams, in bond, at 295.; and 430 bags Ceara at 24s 95
. We have nothing further to notice in Bunt, nor has
ything occurred in Molasses or Coffee; 70 bags Para Cocoa
have been placed at 50s per cwt. _Rice continues neglected. In
Dyewoods, the sales are restricted to 20 tons St. Domingo Log-
wood at £4 5s per ton. Ashes are without change, Pots at 29s 6d,
and Pearls at 32s .; a retail business in Nitrate of Soda at 15s
6d, to 16s per •ewt, Nothing to ,notice in Brimstone. 50 bags
Saq.o Flour have been taken at 15s ; and 50 bales Gambier at 15s
per cwt. • Oils: Palm'firm at £43 to £44 per tun; a kittle doing
in Olive at previous rates ; and small sales of Gingelly at 35s per
cwt.. Tallow easier at 54s for P.Y.C.; and Lard. at ills to 62s
per cwt:, for fine • 200'barrels Common Rosin have been sold at
4s 10d ; and a. small: lot of Spirits of Turpentine to arrive, at
40s 65 per cwt. At auction, 1,200 bags damaged Bombay Lin-
seed, found buyers at 52s to 52s 3d per quarter. We have like-
wise to notice .100 bales Jute at £lB lOs ; and 50 bales %inn Hemp
at ..£2O per ton.
LIVERPOOL Corrox.—The American advises have caused the
cotton market to assume a quieter tone, and with a very mode-
rate demand,. prices are nominally unchanged. The sales—
Licluding 200'Pernambuto at 'lad to Bd, 40' Bahia at Bd, 200 Egyp-
tian at 7ato 91d, GOO Surat at 41d to 60—are reported 5,000
bales, of which 1,000 arc on speculation and for export.
.I,TvraapooL • Coax. —This morning's • market brou
buyers; the business effected was altogether of such
character,' we cannot alter our quotations as regards _,
article; and though the buyers wore little disposed to purchasu,
yet holders did. not manifest any anxiety to sell, especially as
regards foreign produce, which from no part of the world. can
come here to profit

37s 9d fo

tit few
retail

- FOWLER & FREAN.
MANCHESTER TRADE REDORT.—The market- shows increased
activity for India, and there is more doing for the Continent ;
yarns, in consequence of scarcityritre higher since last Tuesday
by-about id, per lb., and cloth is-also dearer..
LONDON PRODUCE.—Sugar : The market has opened with a
firm appearance, and the BarbadoeS pnblic sale went off briskly
at-a slight advance. Mauritius and East India are progressing
steadily. Refined lumps remain quoted 52s fid to 545. Coif(
The small public sale of native Ceylon did not show any m
alters''

rn in prices. Tea : The trade continue to buy the new
season Congou freely, but speculators are not in the market
to-flay. Rice t The bulk of ' the quantity offered in public' sale
was bought in,. and the; article is dull. hum remains steady.
Saltpetre. : The public sale was withdrawn at previous prices.
Indigo : Fifth day —The sales yesterday opened with second-hand
goods in the B Catalogue, a large portion of which were with-
drawn; the portion sold went very unevenly. at about previous
rates. . A few marks of Kurpah and Madras in the A Catalogue
sold with fair spirit at the rates previously established. 2,171
chests passed auction, including 785 withdrawn, and 915 bought

leaving 471 sold.
- -77
Boaouoii Hoe Mauxur.—'{lost 111 W hops in fair-request, at
full prices ; otherwise the trade is heavy, at barely last week's

LONDON TALLow.—The market is quiet at the following
prices :—Town tallow. 52s nett cash ; Petersburg Y.C. on the
spot, 538 3d ; March alone, 53s 3d; April, 535; April and May
52s 9d; April to June, 52s 6d ; October to December, 52s 6d.
LONDON MINING.—The mining market remains firm. Arnow,
the stocks in which business +aken place this morning
steady prices, are the following : -
South Caradon, Hingston Downs-, Win
Consols.

Cam Brea, St. Day Untied,
Nlary Ann, and Alfred

LONDON MONEY MAD
ore buoyantly this m

—The London Stock Market. o

ye been firm, at an
mprovement of a quarter per, ceat, upon the quotations of
yesterday. Nearly the whole morninc, they have stood at 9.51 to
954. Lord Stanley's propOSed loin of seven millions for-India is
to be guaranteed by the revenues of India, and not, as is generally
expected, to have an Imperial• GpaKantee. The London Share
' Market has been firm, but verinsetive
LEEDS CO RN.--The sapply of wheat is good, but mostly in poor
condition,' and such meets with little attention. Fine dry sam-
ples are held for last week's rates, but the business transacted
is on a limited scale. Barley as before.. Beans rather more
plentiful, and prices are maintained. Other articles as before.
NEWCASTLE CORN. —English " Wheat very slow 'of sale, and
Saturday's rates are barely supported. Foreign is without
enquire, but held firmly. Flour is without change in. alue ;. and
but little buSiness doing for Barley, 'except for fine sorts, which
are 6d per quarter cheaper. Oats quiet, but not lower. Beans
and Peas same as on Saturday.
NEWCASTLE CATTLE.—The supply of beef .'.comprises 1,032

heads. There was a good demand for better qualities at extreme
rates. Number of sheep, -1;200; 'There was a steady demand
for all sorts, at about the rates of last week. Pigs were in active
request. rices were—beef, 5s 6d to is 9d; pork,; 58 to 68 per
stone ; and sheep, id to 7id per lb.
Hum. Cortx.,-Linseed firm, and prices adVaTiding.
dull and damn. Good attendance at market, but basin

Weather

dull. Englisli.wileat may be quoted at about last wed
foreign gives way in price. Barley and oats very firr
and peas unaltered in value. Best Hull made -I-
sellers £9 7s Gd, buyers at LD ss, at which prie
could be done. ,•
RocnoALE, Monday
has been much 1
been on a'smlll

Wool : The feeling in the Wool market
week ego; but operation's have
- • - -Ts stick to recent prices,
for ordinary quantities.

r than
Most o.

but many 'V
Th

ns, however; to ln no diiposifion
,to porch

• v
s-done for the home trade ii 'been- larger than a week
The recent rises in the wool market embarrfmed opera-
Merchants give out. but s:nali orders. It is reported
rit the Canadian trade has received a check, the Canadians
having again advanced their tariff- on 'woollens imported. The
Yorkshire trade has been quite as active as last week, and in
some houses better.

BRADFORD, Monday.—There has been more inquiry for wool
to-day, and a little , more doing
.than there was, especially in
bright-haired sorts.. The prices of the reduced currency—that
of Id to lid from the rates of the' early part of January— are
firmly maintained. 'Spinners are getting low in stock, and are
obliged in many cases to come iuto the market. The purchases
to-day are genetallk for cash, Which 'circumstance, of course,
has a considerable influence over the seller, In worsted yarns,
there is less doing, and a softening tendency i,n prices. The
export houses are still inactive, and the home houses quieter
than they were. Cotton yarns are only in small demand. Prices
are steady. There is a fair deMand for goods, without any
change hi prices. There is, however, a far more cheerful tone
pervading the market to-day than we have experienced for some
time, past.

Br.
50 Po.—Number of pigs at market 866; prices from
45s to u
50s 3d.
nuntsx CORN.—Farmers' Wheat : A very short supply of
Prime quality, whiph is worth 6d per barrel more money.
Ple quantity tontlng fcrward Is limited distillers arc