Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-01-05 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL INTLLLIGENCE.

NEW YORK, Dec. 23.—Ashes unchanged. Cot-
ton unchanged; sales 5,000 bales, including
4,000 for transit. Flour—State and Virestern sc.
better, with a moderate demand for sl?eculation,
export, and home oonsuniption. Wheat equiet,
and grimly held. Beef unchanged. Pork Amer.
Oats 4litiet. Lard heavy. Sugar and Coffee
firm. Iron dull. Tallow dull. FT"ights
to Liverpool firm, cotton, to 9,32. Fl our And
grain nominal. Stocks more active and lie ter.
Money and exchange unaltered.
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 20.—Cotton steady.; .s2i3,es
11,500 bales. 61,500 middling, 10! to .41.
Sugar dull, declined 8 cents. Coffee.: sales; fox
the week, 14,000 bags. Provisions dull.

OPENING of P ARLIAMENT..

Viscount Palmerston will give a grand full
dress Parliamentary banquet on Monday, 23rd
instant, to the Speaker and .a large party of the
leading supporters of the Government in the
House of Commons.

MAIL NEWS.
The Delta (s), from Alexandria, has arrived :at
Southampton with the India and China Mails.

LONDON, Jan.

• A-Cabinet Council will be held on Monday next.
The trial of Hughes, the absconding bankrupt
solieitox, has commenced. The first charge taken
was for ,ton-surrender to his bankruptcy.
At the 1-Alf-yearly meeting of. the . Colonial
Bank, to-day, the report was unanimously adopted.
Net profits of }calf-year, X 35,000; dividend declared
At the rate of ten per cent. per annum.

The following appeared in a portion of our
impression of yesterday:—

FRANCE.
[RETTTERIS TELEGRAMS.] •
PAR,IS, January 4.
A decree of the Emperor confirms the nomination of
the Secretaries of the Senate -of the preceding year for
next session.
The Constitutionnel, in a note signed by its secre-
tFY, M. Boniface, says :—" We -are authorized to
give a denial to the assertion in the Parisian correspon-
dence of the Independence Belge that the Archbishop of
i'aris had addressed to the Metropolitan Chapter words
lull of profound uneasiness on ;the state of the Church.
The Archbishop alluding to the present pre-occupation
of the Catholic world, on the contrary, exhorted the
members of the Chapter to prayers for obtaining tran-
qaillity and peace ; recommended them to have confi-
der ce, and reminded them of all their proofs of devoted-
ness the Emperor has given to the Church."

. . THE REFORM BILL.
The Times says, we are very much mistaken if details
htlye as yet been agreed upon, although Parliament

meets sust twenty zlays.from the day on which we are,
*titling ; aild; althoUgh it is absolutely necessary that a
geform Dill should be submitted to the house and the
country at the earliest possible moment, we entertain
the very gravest doubts whether that Reform• Bill be as
yet in existence. Perhaps it is awaiting the tabulated
result of incluiries into the different kinds of franchise ;
perhaps it is waiting, the-solution of theAuestion :whether
there is be a. Congress, And -who 'is to preside' at it;
perhaps• there are serious differences of opinion',, per-
haps the subject has been 'delegated to a committee
which has not made itsreport.' , There may be the most
eicaleit reasons for delaying, but we firmly believe that
whatever be the reason the deltas exists. - -

ROMAN CATHOLIC :SYMPATHV WITH

THE POPE.

A -13. üblie meeting to adopt an addresi to the Pope,
convened by- the Catholic Aid Association, was held
yesterday evening, at the Hanover-square Rooms. The
attendance was very large—probably between 12
and 100—and the-vast majority consisted of females
and working-men, One of the resolutions was to the,
following effect viz., "That, although as Catholics,
we firmly belieiv the spiritual authority .of the Pope
azbt to be of necessity dependant on his temporal
Tower' we yet consider that the -diminution of
'such temporal power would -be detrimental to the
established 'Government, and-,injurious to; the best
interests e religion." . The proceedings did not ter-
minate till near midnight. They were throughout of a
most enthusiastic and exciting character. The Times
says there could not have been. less than 2,000 persons
present, and that the greatest ;unanimity, approaching
often to enthusiasm, was evinced by the audience, a
considerable number of whom were women.

'ME PARIS BOURSE AND POLMCAL
AFFAIRS.-

the Times city article says, on Monday the belief
was general on the Bourse that there would be no Con-
gress. Yesterday, a report that the difficulties at Rome
have been smootheil by an assurance given'to the Pope
that the' recent pamphlet is not to be considered as an
official programme on the part of France, 'tended in a
slight degree to 'restore confidence. The extent to
which speculation had been darried,in the expectation
that the new year would be opened with buoyant pro-
mises, accompanied by a reduction in -the rate of dis-
count by the 'Bank of France, has,'however, been the
main cause of the late fluctuations, considerable disap-
pointment being felt by most of -the operators, in the
short and cantons speech of the Emperor, and the
ambiguous itterpretatiOns to Which it 'is considered
liable.