Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-10-14 00:00:00

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THE MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS

The secretaries of the different committees for managing
the Municipal Elections are respectfully requested to
forward to the office of this paper, in Leigh-street,
timely intimations of all ward and other meetings, in
order that we may be enabled to send reporters to
record the proceedings.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

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with prekidiciai effect upon prices , ,iate,, SUGAR.--T-The market remains steac,„ ..-nces, are unaL-
the day more confidence was expressed, and tered. Two floating cargoes of Havannah sold. Refined
greater firmness set in. Before the close, Consols lumps, 48s. to 50s. .
•FRIDAY OCTOBER 14, 1
, 859. -
returned to the best prices of yesterday, being COFFEE -The public sales are progressing at about ,
now quoted 955 to 96 for mono y and account. previous rates. A floating cargo of Santos sold at 535. plication even seriously set about. All men can
Transactions by' special transfer have been 3d. THE DAY'S NEWS.
TEA.---Nire are still without news from China, and the criticise ; few construct or mend what has been
effected in Reduced Three per Cents. at 94.• ; -
and, New Three per Cents., 94a, 1, 1 ; Indan market is stagnant. The intelligence from Parma, intimating the de- constructed. A child may see that the machinery.
Stock realised .219 ; the Debentures, 951-, ; and INDIG-0.-Second day : The sale to-day has gone off : termination of the provisional authorities to bring does not turn out its work,-or turn it-out well ;
the Bonds 3 din. ; Exchequer Bills, 245. and with. the. same animation as yesterday, for all desirable
qualities of Bengal; ordinary qualities are chiefly boufht to justice, if possible, the perpetrators of the recent
275. pm. • murder of Count Anviti, is calculated to do great but it takes skill and genius to remove the secret
in • dry leaf Madras has sold with fair spirit at last sai;!'s
•In the English Railway Share Market, stocks I
rais. Kurpahs are without alteration • 1,432 chests good to the cause of Italian Independence. The clog, or repair the worn out engine. Yet there
were not largely dealt in, and prices gave way to liave passed the auction to-day, including 490' withdrawn Proclamation of the Dictator is very emphatic in •
is no need to repeat the common-place, that a
so extent. Caledoian, Great Western, Lonn 230 ght i, leavin chests . , its denunciation of the crime. Their honour, he
and North-Western, ndo and
and South-Eastern are ss.
Madras. RicE. bou
-A full namountg 0f712 businesssold has been done.' tells the Italians, is tarnished, and nothing will knowledge of 'defects is a pre-requisite to their
per share lower ; South-Westerns have declined sold at Bs. 6a. to 9s. 6d., and Bengal at 9s. to remove the stain but satisfaction for the horrible correction, and where sincerity, determination,
1- per cent. i=ts.'-6d:`' -- - • -•'- -- - '•,- 1-- , deed. . . and tact exist, a guarantee, almost, of its accom-
The Market for Foreign Securities was dull, CorroN.-No sales reported. The reply of Louis Napoleon to the Archbishoi)
SALTPETRE.-Refraction 10-,1 sold at 335. 6d. of Bordeaux is causing, as we expected it would,
and little.business was transacted; yet, as a rule,plishment. We have reason, therefore, greatly
values have been well supported. Mexicans, SPICES sold at previous rates. considerable'excitement, both in France and Italy. to approve the mission which the ". Social Science
SPELTER sol.d at £2 10s. to £2 12s. 6d. •
however, exhibit less firmness.. Original Turkish The papal party appear to be much displeased
In other articles no material alteration. Association" have appropriated; and these pio-
Sixes, which are now ex div., have been done with it.
at 811 to 891-, but the New Sixes are only CORN AVERAGES. We can do no more than briefly notice-which neers of moral improvement have the same reason
681 to 1. New Indian Loan is, quoted at 101; (week ending Oct. 8, 1859.) we continue to do-the more prominent points of to congratulate themselves on their labours. A
to 102. Wheat, 425. sd. ; Barley, 355. Bd. ; Oats, 21s. 7d.; the proceedings of the Social Science Association high newspaper authority, indeed, has brought
French Rentes are rather better; the quota- Rye, 295. 10d. ; Beans, 395. 9d. ;Teas, 38s. od. at Bradford, this week,-matters of local and
tions, at fifteen minutes past twelve, • being • • , more general interest occupying at present so against them the complaint of departing from the
69f. 50c. Market stated to be inanimate, but METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET.-Ocr. 13. large a proportion of our available space. We object their own title implies, by not restricting
firmer. - Fair average supplies of Beasts and Sheep : demand regret to observe that the Liverpool Financial
Reform Association has been allowed to introduce themselves to the pettiest details of domestic life !
politics into the meeting. It is not improbable A fine bathos, truly, to send peripatetic philoso-
that this may prove the beginning of fatal dis-
, phy on a yearly visit to the chief towns of Eng-
sensions in the Association.
In our Monetary columns will be found a brief,
yet comprehensive, summary of the results which
were arrived at in the quarterly meeting of the
of social recognition, to chastise the smart inso-
Iron Masters, held yesterday at Birmingham.
From this summary the gratifying information lence of " stuck up people," to teach young
will be obtained that the Iron Trade-one of the
most important in this country-is in a sound, ladiesthe mysteries of love at first sight, or of
threading a needle, or of coquetting with a fan,
After considerable dispute, and no small amount or of being " mistress of themselves though
of heated debate, the Township of Tranmere has
china fall!" But though Social Science dares
resolved to adopt the provisions of the Local Go-
vernment Act. A poll was taken yesterday on not to enter that sacred circle where holier
the subject, when the votes recorded showed that and more minute influences hold an undis-
-699 were in favour of adopting the act, and that
turbed sway, there is a vast deal in our out-
-584 were adverse to it ; thus showing a majority
of 115 in favour of the adoption of the act. of-door and public existence which reacts upon
The proceedings at the Mersey Docks and Har-
our domestic manners, and which if left to itself
bour Board yesterday, of which a full report will
brings ruin upon the individual and the family.
be found in another portion of to-day's paper,
were of very considerable importance. A volu- The vast range of its subjects would, of course,
mineus and interesting report on the subject of appal a single mind, and are not in one, or two,
Lighthouses, prepared by the Marine Surveyor of
years, exhausted by the associated and com-
the Board, was read. Although admittedly in- or ten
complete, it nevertheless contains matter deeply petitive talent of the whole country. And after
important to the shipping interest, not of this
all their labours, we are still left to do the most
port only, but of the world. Another matter,
also deserving of earnest attention, viz., the con- important and most doubtful part of the work,
7 in correcting the evils they deplore, and applying
ssitornuc n . tioThoef
aLdifoep-tbioonatso,fwtahsobserocuognhsttruunctdeedr
on
nisctuhse
the
remedies they propose. Well it is that these
principle recommended by Mr. White, wat op-
posed by Mr. Tobin, on the ground that they were moral scavengers should go before and sweep
not equal in several respects to those already pos-
into a corner all the dirt .and dust that defaces
sessed by the Board. After an animated discus-
our social system. Well it is that they should
sion, the subject was referred back to the com.
mittee. point out the places of accumulation, that the
The complications which for some time appear legislature, seconded by the united efforts of the
to have environed all attempts to settle the Italian
dispute seem to thicken, and become more in- nation, ma o after them and cart it out of sight. y g
tricate. If we are to believe the telegraphic There is one intelligible fear which we think
reports which are transmitted from the Conti-
the
constitution of the Society yery fully and
adjustment than they were a month or two ago. satisfactorily dispels. The characters of its chief
nent, matters are further from an amicable
Indeed, it is said in some quarters that Austria members and supporters is a security that how-
ls merely playing the game of procrastination,
ever indirect its alliance may often be, it will
with a view to resuming active hostilities in the

THE FUNDS.-CLOSING PRICES
954

ruled steac

4, at fully Monday's currency. uaives la
active request, at an advance of 2d to 4d per 8 lbs. I
Pigs quite as dear as on Monday.
Beef 2s 10d to 4s 5d I Veal

Con. Money

5 (Bank Stock ....
11-1. I Three per Cents.
A

219 221

Account

94 I ii

35 10d to 5s Od

Mutton
Lamb •

land, to arrange the laws of precedence in select

RAILWAY SHARES.
I Lane.&York 96
9;,-,1 L.& N.W 94
L. and S. W 94i;
5 Leeds Northern 443
Man.Sheff.&Lin. 35

Amb. Not. &E. J. (
Caledonians . . . . 8f
Dutch Rhenish.. -

TOTAL SUPPLY.
1112 I Sheep, for
200 I Calves ....

companies, to instruct in the varying cordialities

foreign

Eastern Counties 54
East Lancashire.

I;]
4922 i

Edinbgh. & Glas. 76 77
Northern..lo2
Ai. 85 7

Mid. Stock . ..105
4 North British .. 59%
N. Staffordshire.
1 S. E. and Dover, 76
York,New &Ber. 88-3
LI York &N. liid

BOROUGH HOP MARKET.--OcT. 13.
Good demand for all new Hops at very full prices
Duty £310,000.

Gt. West

Gt. W. of Canada 13
Gd.r.ll. of Cna... 9/
_ll' Ina

LONDON TALLOW MARKET.—OcT. 13. •
The market continues firm, at the annexed prices

Town Tallow is quoted 575. net ca:
on the spot, 595.; all the year, 595.;

Petersburg
December, 59s

to 595. 6d

LONDON MINING MARKET.—OcroBER 13.
The Mining Market to-day is steady, with a good
amount of business. Wheal Trelawney shares are in
demand, and are marked 281 and 28k. Transactions are
also recorded in that establishment in shares in East
Bassett, at 168, 170, and 169, ex. div. ; East Wheal
Russell, at 91 ; North Downs, at 131 ; Herodsfoot, at
171; and Providence, at 52. Tamar, Hingston Downs,
St. Day United, Wheal Harriett; Sortridge Consols,
and Great Wheal Alfred shares have also met with some
attention. Foreign and Colonial Mining shares are
inanimate. Mariquita are marked H. Wheal Clifford,
Wheal Grenville, Herodsfoot, and BWest Seton Mines
have just been placed on the Stack Exchange List.

MANCHESTER SHARE MARKET.—Ocv. 13.
Canadians, 131 ; Sheffields, L 6 pref., t p, ; Dovers,
221 13-16 ; Trunks, 9 9-16.

MANCHESTER CORN MARKET.—OCTOBER 13.
The market to-day was not so well attended as of late.
Choice samples of English Wheat were taken off at Is.
per quarter advance, while other sorts were in moderate
demand at the currency of this day week. Foreign
held above the views of millers. For Flour rather
higher prices were generally asked, but buyers held
aloof, and little business was done. Oats and Oatmeal
met an improved sale, and brought fully late rates.
Beans steady. .Indian Corn ls. per quarter dearer.

BIRMINGHAM CORN MARKET.---OCTOBER 13.
A good supply of Wheat from Farmers, and trade
ruled dull at an advance of ls. per quarter. Foreign
no dearer. Barley sold freely at firmer rates. Oats,
Beans and Peas unaltered, with more demand for the
latter.

never slide into an agency that pretends to super-
sede Revealed Religion. The principles of
" Social Science," indeed, are often advocated
upon the broad basis of humanity, and do not
involve modes of faith. But so long as they are

spring.
In recording the death of Mr. Robert Stephen-
son, which melanchOly fact we were enabled to
announce briefly yesterday, we have to number
among the illustrious dead another of those men
of genius whose intellectual efforts have outworn
the casket in which the jewel of mental enter-
prise was confined. His career, though compare.-

A.SGOW CATTLE MARKET.---OmonEn 13.
ttle larger .to day. Top quality very
.
ter prices. Middling sold
Inferior quality dull, and

not made to oppose or annul the principles or

freely at a slight advaZ

We more than suspect however, that there is
paying occasionally, as circumstances might re-
in all our hearts a fund of complacency at bottom.
quire, a visit to the Imperial Court. The ae
We make amends for Our own inner self-satisfac-
count we receive is, that high caste Mandarins
tion by a certain acknowledged license of • self-
refused to sign the treaty at Shanghae, and he
reproach. We all know what it means, and know
was directed to proceed to the mouth of the
at the same time that we are very fine fellows Peiho, where :he would be received as becalliel
after all. We are not accustomed to bear from the dignity
unfriendly censors one tithe of the abuse we vol- of the Sovereign whose represent`
tive he was ; instead, however, of being met
untarily appropriate. Who owns the hand that there in peace by the Minister of the EMPEROR
aims the blow, is the chief consideration. And
OF CHINA, he was received by armed batteries-
though we have vast humility, we will not for a Having reached the rendezvous agreed upon he-
moment put up with slander, misrepresentation,
tween himself and the Chinese authorities, he
- found the passage of the river stopped nii ;
ST. PETFR'S WAien.---Till something more definite is known,
is,
However, the conclusion that we are neitherED,
allusion to the subject you refer to might be premature.. better nor worse than our neighbours. Like and then, together with Mons. BOURBONN 0
the French Ambassador, he placed the matter 10
" A Subscriber's" complaint of the rrangements. at the Great
all other people, we have to set our house in
Eastern are not very reasonable, when it is remembered that too
they are made for the public benefit, and that every publicity order, to continually repair its dilapidations, and force his way, with what sad results we but a
is given to them, so that no one can be misled. to find those remedies for growing defects which the hands of Admiral HOPE, who proceeded t
Short letters are encouraged on matters of public interest. well know. John Chinaman has been charged
Short laid a
Tkey should be legibly written °none sifle,of the paper only. every people can best find for itself. The delay with treachery, and, in
. fact, with having „e.
Under no circumstances can we insert communications not in consummating these necessary repairs and
accompanied by the author's real name and address, not trap, and an ambush, for the deception 01 ''''',.
necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. amendments need not discourage, nor lead ~
to despair of better things. There barbarian" eye, behind masked batteries•
1'461'
greater breach of the Law of Nations cons°
all times be much and long be committed than by so outrageous and 5°