Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-12-30 00:00:00

LONDON CORN MARKET.-DEC. 29.

Weather very wet. Supplies of all grain slow, at the
nominal prices of last week. Flour slow ; Norfolks sell at
30e. 6d.

LONDON MINING MARKET.---Dre. 29.

Steadiness generally continues to prevail in this market.
East Wheal Russell shares remain rather fiat, b,ing officially
marked in the Stock Exchange 114 and 11/ ; North Downs
have been dealt in at I. There have likewise been transactions
at steady prices, in shares in Lady Bertha, Itosewarne, Wheal
Harriet, East Caradon, and Grey Wheal Alfred.
St. John del Rey Mining shares have been more inquired for,
and are mar.,ed 19i and 19. Imperial Brazilian have been
dealt in at Is., and Dun Mountain at i die.

BOROUGH HOP MARKET.—DEc. 29.
Considerable firmness continues to prevail in the deniand for
new hops, at very full prices. Yearlings are still firm.

METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET.—Ihc. 29.
Very scanty supply of both beasts and sheep; prime breed.,
sold readily at extreme rates, but inferior quali ies were a lull
inquiry on former terms. The few calves in the market were
disposed of at full currencies, and pigs supported previous
quotations.
Jae" .. .....3s 2d to 4e 10d Veal 4s 2d to 5s 2d
Muttaii.......38 4d to 5€ 4d Pork 3B 6d to 40 6tl
Ltamb pi, od to Os Od V sibs.
- TOTAL SUPPLY.
Beasts
~foreign . ..... .. 180 Calves
Cows ,••• l3O foreign 22
foreign
279
sheep

LONDON CORN AVERAGES.
The average prices of corn, imperial measure, in England
and Wales, for tke week ending Dec. 24 ;—Wheat, .135. Gd. ;
bailey, 345. 9d. ; oats, 21s. ld. ; rye, 28s. 10d. ;beans, 395. 11d
• ;
peas, 375. Gd.

BIRMINGHAM CORN MARK ET.—DEc. 29.
We have a full supply of Wheat to-day for a holiday mar.
ket, and the trade rules dull at the currency of this day week.
Barley kept its value, but only for buyers in limited quanti-
ties. Oats, Beans, and Peas held for precious rates, with
little dcinantl.

NEWCASTLE CORN MARKET.—DEC. 20.
Market very thinly attended, and, owing to the return ef
mild and open weather, aweJ tie the holiday character of the
pree,nt seneen, the traneactionF :n ar, articlee. were eittreenel:s
limited, for no ticta,led et,ierNatice. :Lc

THE DAY'S NEWS.

The mysterious pamphlet about the Popedom
continues to furnish matter for political specula-
tion, and in some quarters to produce extra-
ordinary excitement, upon the Continent. The
clerical party in France is represented as being
highly indignant ; as, indeed, is the same party in
Austria and in Belgium • while at Rome a perfect
panic has been produced, under the influence of
which all the.preparations for the Pope being t•e-
presented at the Congress would appear to have
been suspended.
The !limes regards the Papal question as
treated, in the pamphlet, in two aspects. As
Englishmen, it is contended, we have nothing to
do with it, except as a political question ; but,
then, as English Protestants, it is impossible not
to look at it in a religious aspect, in connection
with its probable consequences to the Church of
Rome as a religious system. In thislatter aspect,
then, it is shown that a long-cherished hope of
English Protestantism has now been revived.
" It would be vain to expect," the writer argues,
"that our honest, staunch Protestant, should not
feel the wings of his religious fancy a little active
and lively, when we have actually drawn out in
a pamphlet from head-quarters in France, and
and commented on favourably by the whole
French press, except the Union, and the Uniners,
a scheme for making the Pope, instead of Sove-
reign of the Papal States, simply Lord Mayor
of the city of Rome, and supporting him by an
annual European contribution," still the jour-
nalist, " would not have his Protestant friends
too-sanguine about the immediate overthrow of
the Pope." They will have to be content, he
thinks, if the approaching Congress gives them
"an instalment of their full vision."

The most formidable opposition to the project
contained in the pamphlet relating to the rope-
dom is likely to come from Russia, which has
communicated to the French Government that,
irrespective of the r2lioious question, with which
it does not intend to interfere, there are principles
involved the recognition of which would affect
the stability of its own empire, and which there-
fore it cannot sanction in the case of the States
of the Church.

The later despatches from the Commander-in-
Chief of the Spanish forces in Morocco, indicate
that the war is now being prosecuted with great
vigour, and apparently with no slight success on
the part of Spain. General Prim it is asserted,
has driven the enemy back on all sides. " The
cavalry, for the first time, charged the enemy,
who fled without awaiting the shock." Of course
we must receive these accounts with some slight
qualification ; but there is little doubt, we believe,
that the Spaniards arc now subduing the. Moors
with considerable effect.

The remark contained in the official report of
the Board of Trade on the loss of the Mail
Steamer Paramatta, that " the desire to make
rapid voyageS is supplanting the proper caution
of shipmasters, who may be led to suppose that
their first duty is to regard, not the safety of
the ship, but the quickness of the passage,' •is
one likely to produce some excitement among the
Shipping Interest. How far such a reflection
may be deserved, we will not take upon us to
say; but the matter is a serious one, and we
have no doubt will receive the utmost attention
at the hands of 'the parties more immediately
concerned.

The Times, in a leading article en the late riot
at the camp at Aldershot, arising out of a collision
between a regiment of the militia and one of the line,
observes that " it is the very height of absurdity
to conceive that these two branches of the service
should entertain a jealousy of each other." But,
at the same time, it is admitted that " facts must
be taken as we find them, and the utmost care be
used to avert a danger which, from the very
nature of the case, must always exist." And
this care can be best shown, it is maintained,
" by discipline and vigilance to obviate the mis-
chief," not that such discipline and vigilance have
been altogether neglected ; but, it is added,
" that there is still room for more to be - done, is
what we must needs conclude from the incidents
of the Aldershot riot."
It would be difficult to find any of our public
men more deserving of a testimonial for public
services than Sir John Pakington. It is gratify-
ing, therefore, to find that such a testimonial has
just been presented to the right honourable
baronet, in his native county of Worcester, and
one, the design of which is intended to illustrate
those branches of public duty to which he has
particularly devoted himself, namely, the Navy,
Colonies, Education, and Justice. This object, is
effected in the form of a shield, containing very
ingenious illustrations of the several subjects
referred to. The dedication sets forth that it is
presented by the county and city of "Worcester,
in grateful recognition of his public services.
Our report of the meeting of the Shareholders
of the Liverpool Borough Bank, yesterday, will
be read, we are sure, with no oulinary interest.
As at previous meetings of this unfortunate
establishment, there was, on the present occasion,
considerable excitement ; although the report of
the liquidators was well calculated to allay any
such feeling. Their motive for avoiding a second
call on the shareholders, and preferring to effect
a loan for the estimated amount of the deficiency
of the sum necessary to meet the fifth and last
instalment due on the 27th of October last,
cannot, we think, but be generally appreciated.
The winding-up of the affairs of the Bank, it will
be seen, is still deferred, owing to the difficulty
of realising fully a large proportion of its assets.
The opportunity was taken advantage of for the
purpose—one legitimate enough, however galling
it may be to those whom it reflects upon,—of
reviewing again that course of misfortune and
mismanagement which made the failure of the
bank co fearful a calamity lu the town. The
speccb of Mr. ETWllley-Moore IYI.IB /I very able

expose of the whole case, and well deserves to be
seriously pondered, as a lesson and a offarning
regarding such undertakings'for all time to come.

THERE is no doubt that the centrifugal forces in
the Cabinet are just at this moment in full play;
and it is a moot point whether the Gladstonian
or the Gibsonian star shall be shot out of the
sphere. It would be curious to know what
really has been taken to be the doctrinal centre
round which all the diversities of opinion in the
Cabiliet were to revolve ; each not without a
private orbit of its own, but all sufficiently de-
pendent upon the common principle of,attraction.
Were Minister© to be agreed upon the first lessen,
the mere A B C of politics—that is, of English
politics ? If so, this' would be an union which
could not but be productive of go'od practical
results. If we take Lord JOHN RussELL's
Aberdeen exposition of the kind of reform
that is wanted, and suppose that the
politics of the present Cabinet were to
be consciously based upon the principles
there laid down, we should look only for plain-
sailing before the path which the next Parlia-
ment has to traverse. If the principles of our
present governmental and political system are
accepted as the starting-point for all modifica-
tions and developments, the work can be only one
of detail, and the differences in elaborating it
only teelznical and easily surmountable. The
question is, has not the present Cabinet admitted
among its members at least one man of violent
sentiments on the express ground that the Repub-
lican party has a claim to be represented ? But
the admission of this claim is a surrender of the
Constitutional principle, and an intimation that
Mr. BRIGHT'S transitional arguments as to
taking for the present what can be got, mark
out the recognised course of reform for the
future. The present spirit of concession to
Mr. BRIGHT denotes one fact in our position
and prospects—namely, that if the fortunes
of this Ministry are to be given up to the
piloting of Lord JOHN RUSSELL, it must soon
find itself on a very wide sea, with a very strong
current, drifting to a well-known destination,
without rudder or chart. The moment that the
motive for reform is, found in concession to Mr.
BRIGHT and the democrats, that moment the
course is entered upon which must issue in the
destruction of our present system. If the motive
for reform were merely, as Lord JOHN RUSSELL
thought it convenient to lay down at Aberdeen,
the adapting of Constitutional forms to altered
circumstances—that is, as it were, leaving the
Constitution free to grow by its own principle of
growth, then it is not only allowable but natural,
and not only natural, bat necessary, to leave
Mr. BRIWIT entirely out of the question. Is
it not simply an impertinence that this
small knot of democrats should presume
I to anticipate the course which they shall be
..„
pleased to take in response to coming legislative
propositions ? That they should announce with
a great deal of formality their will and pleasure
that the reforms ventured upon shall be accepted
as instalment and promises of what is ultimately
to be extorted ? Yet this is the position which
Mr. BRIGHT has openly assumed, and which the
present Ministry tacitly recognise as his, either
by right of his principles, or by right of his
power. But the plain truth is, that he has no
such right, either from one or the other. Any
concession to Mr. BRIGHT, en account of his
principles, is sufficient-ground for the condemna-
tion and expulsion of any Ministry. As we have
over. and overt again contended, not only are
his principles dangerous and pernicious, but
they are of such a nature as to destroy his
right to be keard at all. No Constitutional
politician and himself can have the smallest strip of
common ground; and unless the question is, whe-
ther our present political fabric should be pulled
down from the top to the bottom, or not, argu it
-
ment would be useless, even if we were to grant as
a privilege what cannot be demanded as a right.
While, as to his power, if all the Constitutional
strength in the State were really to cast aside all
vain and party motives, and collectinto one mass,
we should see an active and noisy faction crushed
to powder.
The difficulties of the present Ministry are
solely created by the exigencies of partisanship.
Gratuitous as these exigencies arc, and deeply
discreditable too, the difficulties are not slight.
It will become Conservatives to take advantage of
them, not fora party victory, but with the con-
viction that this triumph will be the salvation of
the country and the defeat of the democratic fac-
tion. Meantime, who is to be the JONA.u, cast
out of the sinking ship, by next session of Parli.
liament ?

THE first attempt that we have observed to turn
the Rifle Corps movement to a mischievous pur-
pose, has been made by one of the Radical mem-
bers for Finsbury,—Mr. Cox,—who, at a soiree
of the North London Political Union, the other
evening, boasted of his having presided at the
first meeting in the metropolis, for the promotion
of the movement, and left it to be inferred that

his ultimate object in doing so was to arm the
people, not so much, if at all, for a defensive
purpose against a foreign foe, but that they might
be in a position to enforce their demands for the
elective franchise ! Mr. Cox, as we all know, if
not an universal-suffrage man, is for so large an
extension of the suffi•age among the lower
classes of the people, as would be almost
tantamount to universal suffrage ; and his
idea is, that to have the people armed and
arrayed in Rifle Corps, may be one very
effectual means of compelling the Government
to submit to their demands. Notwithstanding'
he declared, that the fear of an invasion had now

passed away from the minds of men, still the
_Rifle Corps MO veIUCLIt should not be allowed to

FRANCE.

It is reported at Paris that M. Guizot is en-
gaged on a pamphlet on the temporal power of
the Pope.

THE MYSTERIOUS PAMPHLET.
PARIS, Dec. 29.

The Pays of this evening contains an article
signed by M. Granier de Cassagnac, on the pam-
phlet " The Pope and the Congress," which, the
article states, has been wrongly interpreted by
the newspapers. The pamphlet does not propose
to deprive the Pope of the Legations but advises
his Holiness to submit to the present state of
things and proclaims the necessity of maintaining
the temporal power of the Pope. M. de Cassagnac
*kids, the pamphlet confines itself to pronouncing
an opinion the Congress alone will decide, and
even after that the Church will remain full and
entire.

The. Bishop of Orleans has written an answer
to the pamphlet on the Roman question. Its
language is described as exceedingly violent.
The letter of the Bishop of Orleans in the
Union newspaper being considered a pastoral in
disguise, the question of giving a warning to
that journal is stated to have been discussed by
the Council of Ministers, but it has been resolved
to reply to it in a series of letters, which will
appear in the' semi-official Constitutionnel, from
the Independent Catholics, who are to be in-
spired by the same ideas that are to be found in
the pamphlet on the Roman question.