Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-01-23 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

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are required, not necessarily for publication, but as guaran-
tees of good faith.

MONDAY, JANUARY 23, 1860,

-THE DAY'S NEWS.

By the Bombay mail, which has arrived,
it will be seen that the Ghoorkah and Nepaul
campaigns just ended are considered to have been
very successful,—indeed the. Indian rebellion is
now at an end, and even Nana Sahib is confidently
reported among the dead. • It will be observed
that there had been a fire in the Governor-General's
camp, by which his Excellency's tents were
burned down, and much property destroyed, •but
no life was lost. .. Among the commercial news
we notice that the rate of freights for Liverpool
has ad raced.`

There is a great agitation going on at present
among the Russian nobility in connection with
the question of.the emancipation of the peasants,
which is causing the Government great uneasiness.
A letter from Warsaw says :—" Two . distinct
parties figure in this opposition. The first are
Constitutionalists, and do not oppose the emanci-
pation of the peasants, , but they demand a con-
stitution ; the second party, although making
common cause with the first, are opposed to the
emancipation of the serfs, or, at least, are exorbi-
tant in their demands for pecuniary compensation.
They invariably reply to the Emperor as
Yermoloff did to Alexander I.,—' Sire, commence
with us.' The question will probably before long
'become of great interest throughout Europe."
According to the latest accounts from Morocco,
the
,Spaniards are . now prosecuting the war
against the Moors with very decided success. In
several recent conflicts with the Spanish batta-
lions the Moors appear to have been completely
beaten and driven back, flying with precipitancy,
and never stopping until out of rifle range. They
are. represented as being under the influence of
blind and furious fanaticism, which renders them
utterly unfit,. to resist-either-the cannon-or the
bayonets of their assailants. This being the case,
Ms not improbable that the war may now soon
be brought to an end. -
Some time since, it may be remembered, th
Cardinal Archbishop of Pisa directed his•clergy
to introduce, in the course of the public services, a
prayer for the Grand, Duke of Tuscany. This was
rather too much of a good thing. The Minister
of Public Instruction has addressed a letter to the
Cardinal, in which he tells him that " to pray for one
as sovereign, who is not sovereign of the country,
is equivalent to refusing to acknowledge the real
ruler—is committing an act of rebellion under the
pretext of prayer; and this," the letter goes on
-to tell his eminence, " even renders the act more
culpable and more dangerous, as it converts the
house of _prayer into a hotbed of sedition, and
lights up the flames of civil war on the altar of a
God of peace. At present Tuscany has no Grand
Duke ;" and the writer concludes by urging the
withdrawal of the prayer.
A further alteration and reduction are reported
as likely to be made in the French army. One
curious result of the recent improvements in
artillery is, that the value of the heavy cavalry
is considered to have been so much reduced, that
it is proposed to abolish that branch of the service
altogether. Another rumour current in Paris,
on' Saturday, was that -the Emperor intends to
give still further proof of his pacific intentions
by'reducing the army by a hundred thousand men-,
The Emperor Napoleon has no doubt entered
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resignations by the Archbishop of Paris, of his
seat: in the
Privy Council of the Empire. The

sgnificance of the event cannot be fully appre-
ciated without remembering that this Privy
Council is a body which was created immediately
after the failure of the Orsini conspiracy, and was
exclusively composed of those whom the Emperor
looked upon as the most reliable and devoted ad-

herents of the Napoleon dynasty, for the purpose
of assisting the Empress, in the event of the sud-

den death of the Emperor, during the minority of
the Prince Imperial. The Archbishop, moreover,
did not belong to the Ultramontane party ; and

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he is said to have taken this step even in the face
of repeated personal solicitation by the Emperor.
He enjoyed a hundred thousand francs a-year fq
this office,--a lucrative sinecure, which, of course,
he now loses.. One effect of this resignation,
is expected, will be to inspire the general body of
the French priests with greater boldness in their,
opposition to the anti-papal policy of the French'
Government. _The probable influence of the
Bishops and Clergy upon the army is evidently a
subject of anxiety with the Government ; and it
is nothing more than might have been expected,
that measures have been taken to pi•event the
army from hearing the pastorals read- to the
people in the churches, by ordering that mass is
henceforth to be celebrated' every Sunday, in oil
the barracks throughout France, by the regi-
mental chaplains. It is stated that another
object, in making this order, may have been to
shOw to the world Y,
, that France and her soldier
are still religious, notwithstanding the anti-palol
policy recently announced.

It will be seen by our latest telegraphic el'
press, that the commercial treaty with France'
to include a complete and effective assimilation °f
the flags of the two nations in the maritime in'
tercourse; direct and. indirect. What this reallY"
means we cannot at present fully comprehend.
One of the results of the commercial treaty
with France, it is now understood, will be 0.
reduction of the duty on the French wines ; it is
said to the extent of 2s. 9d. per 'gallon—that is,
from ss. 9d. to 3s. ; and this under the conviction
that increased consumption will soon make up for
the decrease of duty, while a benefit will be con-
ferred on society by thus encouraging the habitual
use of pure and wholesome wine, in preference to
more deleterious vinous products or to ardent
spirits. And this in return for the concessions
which France will make by the reduction of duties
on certain articles of English produce and manufac-
ture " Still," the Times contends, "the French must
not expect to receive a quid pro quo for every""
thing that they yield. They must recollect that
the removal of their own restrictions is Pri"
marily and essentially for their own benefit'
and only incidentally for ours. The intro"
duction of English iron will, no doubt, be a geOl-
thing for our ironmasters, but it will be a malt
better thing for the French consumers. Franc°
wants Free Trade in order to improve her agri-
culture, and to find a market for the products
of her rich soil, which could produce two or three:.
times the quantity of corn and wine which is
now obtained from it." So that France, ill
thus taking a liberal commercial course'
is more likely to benefit herself • than us
and we quite agree with a further: rernarl'
of our contemporary, that, "in the present
case, the House of Commons will inquire, at
whether France admits our productions at alower
duty than heretofore, but whether-the state of the
revenue will allow a diminution of imposts, 03'
then whether wines or silks are the fittest articles
to relieve from duty."
The " projects " prepared by the various Mini''"
ters of State in France, in execution of the Em-
peror's letter on commercial reforms, have already
so far been published in the Moniteur. The ad-
vances to be made by the State for works er
drainage, clearing, &c., are proposed to be limitea-
to ten millions of francs.
In accordance with a resolution passed at tile'
recent meeting of the Shipping Interest in LW
don, it is satisfactory to find that Mr. Crawford'
one of the members for the city, as soon as r(11
liament meets, will *give notice of his intention
to move the appointment of a Select Committee
of Inquiry into the condition of our commercial
marine, and the practical operation of the leo°
enactments and local burdens affecting the sate.
The Shipping Interest has the strongest clads
to the consideration of Parliament. At Presevt
that interest certainly has not justice done to it
and the appointment of such a committee, there'
fore, is but an act of bare justice to a great
national interest of the country. Let us 11°Pe
that there will be no objection to such a proceed-
ing, and that the committee will be so constituted
as to give the fullest and best effect to the object

in view.
Mr. Cobden is said to have lost nearly tl'e
whole of his private fortune by speculations
American railway shares; but already
the sum of
forty thousand pounds has been subscribed to re-
imburse the honourable member.

With painful feelings we refer to an account of
the melancholy death, through accident, of Captain
William Harrison, commander of the steam•ship-
Great Eastern. As will be seen from the narra—
tive alluded to, Captain Harrison was, in emu

pany with several others, drowned in passing froth
the Great Eastern to Southampton. The first in—
timation of this sad event created a great senscP

tion in Liverpool, where the lamented gentleman
had formed a very extensive circle of attached
friends. As a man, Captain Harrison "s"

esteemed and respected for his unswerving Prc
bity, his thorough integrity, and his general kill-
ness. As a skilled navigator, his claims to high-
honour were, and still are, readily admitted by
the commercial world. As a gentleman and tic—
complished man of practical knowledge, his worth,
was indicated and in some degree testified by the
selection of him to command in the greatest Prac—
tical experiment which has ever been made .
navigation. Warm-hearted, kind, and affable,-
times Captain
ha
r ybraved the perils Harrison,
tiao hundreds Atlantic,
h
cars
perished, within as it were a stone-throw 0f the
nt and
shore, and in what, compared to his fre qu_ e

greater scenes of peril, must be looked on as

little more than a mill-pond. Such an end to
the career of such a man is melancholy

in the extreme. Hope justifiable hope
beckoned him on in the path of fortune and farge