Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-08-26 00:00:00

" If," which it takes for granted will be the

the King of Sardinia refuses to accept the

annexation of Central Italy, ther

be a dead

lock which must necessarily lead to the restora-

tion of the Dukes without any recourse to arms

Another speech of Mr. Lindsay, M.P., which

we have given elsewhere, well deserves attention.
It especially deserves the attention of our work-
ing men, to whose interests, it is wells known,
the honourable member is much devoted ; and his
advice to them, under the present circumstances
of the country, as it is there given, is valuable
in the extreme. He admits, it will be seen,—as
we most certainly do ourselves,—that whilst
labour is the working man's capital, and he has a
perfect right not only to go into the market and
dispose of that capital to the best advantage
in his power, but even to enter into combination
with his fellow workmen, if he thinks proper, to

increase the value of his labour, it is yet gene-

rally ?spry Questionable if it be. on the wholo, for
his interest to do so. He may gain by it for the
moment; but it is very probable that, in the long
run, he will lose by it,—and certainly, no such
combination must ever assume such a character
as to interfere with others, whether workmen or
employers. The reasoning of Mr. Lindsay on these

points is most conclusive
dr(

We commend his ad-

s, therefOre, to the particular perusal of our
numerous readers among the working classes.
Mr. Lindsay was accompanied on this occasion by
his excellent friend, Judge Halliburton, whose
humorous address will also be read, we are sure,
with much interest,—nay, we think with edifica-
For the honourable and learned gen-
tleman generally deals, in great truths ; though,
as they are not always palatable in their naked-
ness, or, as he himself expresses it, " are too

tion also

homely for people to care much about, or too dry

for them, unless, like doctors' pills

they have a

little sugar put round them,

he adopts the

admirable plan of wrapping them in a little
humour, in order, as he further says, " that when
people read them for amusement, they may find
that they have learned something that they did
not know before."

The metropolitan building strike, unhappily,
seems to have become so doggedly inactive that
little prospect of accommodation between the con-

flitting parties presents itself. Both sides seem
obstinate ; and until some sacrifice has been felt
among the contending parties, the hope of con-

cession or reasonable arrangement must be looked
on as distant. In the meantime, the ruinous
consequences of the strike cannot fail to tell
severely on both the employers and the parties
who ought to be employed.

THE England of to-day presents not alto-
gether a healthy prospect to the moralist or the
Christian. The inordinate amount and intensity
of crime which is the daily burden of the press
throughout the country, which every assize bears
witness to, and judges every three months de-
plore with increased fervency, reveals a wide-
spread depravation of the moral sense through-
out entire classes of the community. Though
this, which is the most appalling feature of the
evil, viz., its extent, seems at the same time to
render more certain and more easy the means of
cure, it may be difficult to take out an individual
from the mass, and investigate the hidden causes
of crime, the subtle liabilities to temptation, in a
single human breast. But when immorality
takes the wide range of one-half of the inferior
part of the population of our cities and villages,
the object upon which our skill and zeal are to
be exerted assumes a definiteness of shape, and a
tangibility of cause and effect, which ought
themselves to guide us in inquiry, and point to
the means of repression.

opportunities, and powers, and agencies and vir-

Given a nation wealthy, powerful, and cot- Which uphold the supremacy of England, must
tented, with every resource from practical talent, and do seek consideration and protection. The
enlarged knowledge and civilization, ramifying, Agricultural and Shipping Interests respectively
through all grades ; the arts of government both looked for justice and fair-play 'from the ranks of
local and central in high perfection ; a theoretical the late Government, rather than from the ultra-
standard of cultivated philanthropy among the Liberal " advanced" party. It may be in the
educated, and an absence of special incitements recollection of some of our readers, that the:
to crime among the vulgar,— given all these Right Hon. M. T. BAINES was formerly selected

to represent Hull, very much more upon personal
considerations than on account of his political
The suavity and amenity of his own
ndividual character, with his popular affability
of manner, mainly won for him this high dis-
tinction. There was an express understanding,

creed.

however, that he should not support any measure
introduced into the House of Commons detri-

mental to the Shipping Interest. When, there-
fore, Mr. LABOUCHERE introduced the bill to
repeal the Navigation Laws, Mr. BAINES, them
President of the Poor Law Board, tendered his-
resignation to the Premier of the day, which was
not accepted, while it was intimated to him that
he should not be required to support the Govern-
ment by his vote on that occasion ; and he ab-

stained accordingly. The electors of Hull im-
posed this condition upon Mr. BAINES, because
they were aware that they could expect no relief
from the Liberal party to which he belonged.

A more active policy must now be pursued by
shipowners, if their Interest is to be upheld_
Members should only be returned, who are pre-
pared to vote for measures, which will restore the
broken fortunes of the Mercantile Marine. Per-

sonal respect must not interfere with the discharge
of a great public duty. The inertness of the Ship-
owners, while their Interest was being tampered
with, was unaccountable and fatal; and from that
supineness they have only been roused by the
irritation of loss and disadvantage which has

supervened. The result is, that now there are
thirty members in the House of Commons, who
are engaged in Mercantile Marine pursuits ; and
whose influence will be recognised,—whose re-
monstrances will be respectfully listened to, and
the weight of their practical knowledge and ex-
perience receive that consideration, which the
House invariably extends to the statements of
members who confine their remarks to the

particular Interest with which they are most con-
versant, and in which they are chiefly embarked.
One fact to which we would direct the atten-

I tion of gentlemen engaged in this branch of
commerce is, that to the Conservative principle of
the Constitution they must look for that justice
and equity, which their present depressed con-
dition so loudly calls for. The Manchester school
of politics is entirely opposed to them ; and
however applicable the theories of that party
may be to some branch of industry, it is most
inappropriate to this ; although they would make

it appear otherwise.

The Free-trade advocated

in that school, is not a nostrum for all things ;
and certainly it is not one to be beneficially ad-
ministered to our Shipping. On this ground
why was Liverpool delivered from Mr. CARD-'
WELL'S services ; and hence, consistently with

the principles of the same school, we find him a

member of Lord PALMERSTON'S Government.
The extreme party which assisted to bring in the
present Ministry was one, the leading members
of which had spoken most disparagingly of the
noble Premier and his colleagues. Our hope,
therefore, is now centered in those members who
have been elected to represent the Shipping Inter-
est, and whoie great duty it will be to use their

best energies and influences to restore to office
Lord DERBY'S Administration ; which, while

having the confidence of the country, was evi-
dently overthrown by the instrumentality of gross
bribery and corruption, on the part of those
in whom that interest has never found friends.
To this body of shipowners in the House, Mr.
SOMES, as member for Hull, will be a great

accession. No amount of casuistry can get rid of
the facts which are presented at the present
moment, with reference to the interests of that
important source of our national wealth which
Mr. SOMES now personally represents. But
how this condition of depression is to be altered,
so as to give the Shipping Interest a fair chance
for the development of its energies, and for

retrieving the position which it is rapidly losing,
it is for the wisdom of Parliament to decide. It
is a subject of gratification that the Legislature
has been so far prepared for the task, by the
recent introduction to the House of Commons of

men, whose acquaintance with the maritime

commerce of the country, in all its bearings, is

beyond question or dispute. We hail, therefore,
with joy the accession of Mr. JOSEPH SOMES to
this party in Parliament. Happy would it be
for Liverpool were a similar spirit to pervade the

great bulk of its constituency. Liverpool, even
more than Hull, requires its greatest interests to
be wholly represented in Parliament by men, who
not only understand, but sympathise with them.
We depend so much upon the Shipping Interest
in this borough, that none but devoted supporters
of that Interest, ought ever to be returned by

such a constituency as its representatives in the
Legislature,—where laws are made which, as

experience has shown, can either advance that
interest or depress it, as the case may be.

BANQUET TO LORD DERBY

We understand that it has been determined to

entertain Lord Derby, and several of his late col-

leagues, at a public Banquet in Liverpool, to take

place in the course of a few weeks, on which

occasion the Address that has been so numerously

signed, expressive of the high sense entertained o

his Lordship's admirable conduct in the late adnii -

nistration of her Majesty's Government, and of the

increased confidence with which he is regarded

as the Leader of the Conservative party, will be

formally presented. We anticipate, on this occa

AUGUST 26, 1859.

aeon, one of the most imposing political gather-

lags 'witnessed in this country since the great

Peel Banquet, after the battle of Reform, in

1832• Lord Derby has, of .course, accepted the

invitation; and the day for the meeting will be

fixed as soon as possible

NOTES OF THE DAY

'Whilst preparations are going on in th
the transport of many thousand more troops to India, we
have advices from Calcutta, intimating the continued
discharge of large numbers of the late East India Com-
pany's forces. The Indian Government, we learn, have
+„ at once, about twelve hun-

.ountry for

dretl of thos,

oldiers to Euro:

not one enabling

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of liberty

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