Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-01-04 00:00:00

MAIL NEWS.

Intelligence has been received of the rarival, at
Aden, of the Nubia, with the following dates :
Shanghai, Nov. 2; Hong Kong, Nov. 29; Calcutta,
Dec. 10 ; and Madras, Dec. 15. The letters are
expected in London, via Marseilles, about the
12th inst.

,Mr. Skinuel W. Talbot is: azetted as Consulst
Dublin for the United States.
LONDON, Jan, 3.
.
Lbrd Cowley left Peiis for London on Sunday
-A CabinetConueil'ras held this afterkoon.

At the half-yearll,laeeting of the London Dock
Company, a propocition. for appointing auditors
was negatived, andthe report was adopted unani-
mously. The rea4.ction of charges; -it was stated,
had -brought increase of business. The dividend
is .£1 10s. per cent. for the half 'year, leaving a
-balance cif £715,000.

The following appeared in n portion of four
impression Of yesterday-1--

MR.CARDWELL AT OXFORD.

Mr, Cardwell yesterday, alluding to Ireland, sake' if
the rapid improvement of the coun&y, • Irish railways he.
described as generally superior 'to those of England.
Beside the fact that crime was diminishing, and the poor-
rates rapidly 'falling, there was in Ireland,- a, eaniverhal
thirst7tir education, which was calculated to -raise' the
characttr of the people, and the whole tone both Of the
country and the Goveummeit. There were 'difficulties
with 'icgard to the government of Ireland.; 'but ihe
!uggested that, by plating otimelvel as much as poisible
in theToint of view ..cf the people who are principally
intore-ated, we shall best leaiectirage a similes feeling in
the 'lrish people, and.induce them to look -at all
imperial questions from the same point Of view as
ourselves. Mr.. Cardwell k,was not sanguine as 'to our
getting rid of the income-tax. On .the..question of
refopp, he said that if the 'lin were a fair,, judicious,
and:6gliteous meafaire, it,would .receive an amount of
general support very different from the excitement and
ettife which marked the:advent of the first Reform Bill.

-*According to a telegram, from Cadiz, the •total,export
,f-sherry for the .past F year has reached .45,91)..4 butts,
.sgrinst 28,729 in'lBsB, and 60,707 in 1857.
`fir. J. W. Gert has, retired from the poiition. of
general manager K,f the London and Westminster Bank,
,Lich he has held since 18i4. He will be recommended
to a seat in the direction, at the next meeting.

":The Times notices in a leader, the -change of tone
'which some of%the :Irish papers have .undergone in
speaking of the Emperor of the French. -.Alittle while
ago, when thel'Emperorvas believed tor,behostile to
Eland, he was-their idol, but the post .of deliverer of
I-relancl and chastiser of England is once more vacant.

' The publication bf the.tricial papers or tte affair of
tire. crew of tbe.Trincess Royal took•place .at the sole
instigation of 'Admiral! Bowles, and he, nt the same
tenderedlitis resignation in case the. Admiralty
:disapproved of-;he step. The Tima row: announces
that the .gallarrt.admirars• resignation of hose command
at Portsmouth ha been acee_pted.

The Times-contains a• narative of the •cuing off of
.sp-i-oung man lot.good family by the police- of Naples.
His mother is an English,vroman. His arrest was cal-
culated upon -as,oertain tend the degircd-fril)ration of
terror throughout the cit)"..---Novne dare...ts ask who
he.z., carried him iOff,' nor -to ask where. The Thws
reraarks, that -unless Francis 11. changes his policy,
Naples will certainly change her dynasty.