Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-08-04 00:00:00

elections will render their decisions to-day

"ANOTHER yet !" and still the ghastly procession
has not finished. The sure, though tardy, steps of
justice have, it is too true, overtaken a seventh
victim ; and the victim is again a, Liberal. How
long is the sword to be suspended'? When will
Nemesis have slaked her just
revenge I' Enslatard
rettincr .-.r rponrds of enrruption-
wearied with the endless slaughter

She cries, with

MACBETH, " A seventh! I'll see no. more."

to-morrow she may have to continue the accents of
And yet an eighth-appears !"
We said, the other day, that the Liberals should'
not forget. Let us refresh their memories. Let us

amazement—

recount the acts of the three months' Play,-
comedy, builequp, parody, tragi-comedy, tragedy,
all combined in. one—on,which, the stage-curtain has
not yet fallen, and which may still be charged with
a denouement, little looked far at present, but, in
_Ty
criticism at feast, not at all snoiN--

of the piece.
ine drama, has been put upon. the stage with very
elaborate and expensive properties; with a not. ill-

prepared machinery ; and not unprovided with its
god in reserve, to descend at the opportune moment,
when the difficulty should be at the highest. It has
not been without its complement of artful stratagems,
delicate surprises, moving situations, abrupt and
telling catastrophes. It has had its storms of passion,
its appeals to a higher destiny, its cries. of injured.
innocence, and predictions of virtuous triuini,h, its
villains ands its saws, its. duels, and. its, murderS,

And. now it is having its retributive justice.;
not, indeed, -in--exact accordance- with the
original plan. of the piece, lug with'the
dispositions of a truer and a higher:fate. The• first
act commenced with a florid denunciation of the

country's vengeance upon the incompeteuce, the
insincerity, and the recklessness of the Conservative
party, and with threats of condign prtnishment. Act
the second introduces the villains of the piece,

assembled in base conclave at the Carlton. Club, and

driven &operate by the-incipient success of political

virtue

that is, of. the RUSSELL manoeuvre

good cause

again trembles

ii the balance. Immacu-

late and anxious innocence is detected lifting up its
eves to Heaven; and the drop scene falls amid the

wailing admonitions -of Sir JAREs GRAHAM and

the Times, who perform the duties of chorus to the

play. Act the third opens with the marshalling. of
the opposing forces, and the premeditated descent of
the god in the hour of difficulty ; and, after the

usual amount of fighting and bloodshed, ends with

the triumph of virtue,, and an anticipatory song of

triumph efficiently performed by the approving

chorus aforesaid. The characters .go off in procession,
amid waving colours, and to, the sounds of drums and

trumpets, and all kinds of: mu*

But, what of the

fourth act ? Alas

thiq a play should require more

than three, Alas ! that there must be an end, as
well as a beginnin.g and a middle. Alas ! that there
What can we say of the

is even a fifth yet to come

fourth aot ? It ,is = not yet completed ;,:it is not yet

!tort'• has turned everything topsy-turvy,

has shanyed the misplaced sympathy of the spectators.
The Ti•itue of the heroes has been nothing but an
artfra dodge. The god who came to the rescue of
mnocence is found to be PLT.ays. The victory was

this very " plain tale" of the committee-rooms quite

put them down ? or is disingenuity still labouring
-only not yet delivered of—another mendacious

and hypocritical device

? We confess that, if we

thought them capable of repentance, we should not
be- too hard in demanding a confession. We wal
spare their feelings, if they have only the grace
to appeal to our compassion. If they had not
arrogated to themselves such a monstrous stock
of virtue, and covered their opponents with slander
and false reproach, we might be• disposed to let them
slink off in silence with' the punishment their own
deeds•have directly brought upon them. If we could
only think they would not repeat, the artifice!--if we
could only banish from: our minds the certain prospect
of the next election, when the same simulated cha-
racter will be assumed, and the same character of in-

vented wickedness imputed; when the same mask ratty
cover the worst designs, and the same hopes of

impunity be secured for their completion) by visitigg
them in anticipation and suspicion upon their oppo►
vents ; forgiveness -would indeed. be as pleasant an
it would be-magnanimous:

The Times says nothing. EVen Punch withholds
his' ready jest: Had the recent' history been
reversed, had'one week sent. seven Conservatives to
an ignominious oblivion ; had'a Dartinouth established
corruption hit Conservative high quarters with as
much presumption of truth as it' has • fixed it upon
" Captain l3tri.-LEv" and the Candidates' Committee ;
had a Gloucester implied the complicity of- the
Carlton, as directly as it Nas that of the Reform Cl\ib;
would there have been? any cessation to the well-
wrought thunder of the' 2Tmes? What a sublithe
justification of.previous suspicions*what eredit'taken
for previous warnings ! The revelations of .plots and
conspiracies, last May, would have -been appealed to
as evidencingthe sagacious vigilance of this-wateh-
dog of the Constitution. It- would have been
pronounced one of the boons . which Natureteonfers

upon her favourites when most unexpected, that the

_ .
Conservative party had is taste of power tooninief to
.complete the evil ,they intended) yet long enough-to
gain confidence in- {heir wickedness, and achieve- the
final ruin of their reputations. A long lease of
pciwer would- have been predicted for the-Liberal.
Party; a. long purgatory for the Conserva-
tives, before their purification, should be accom-
plished. The silence of the Times may be discreet,
but it is also a humiliation. it is not oar fault that
their fall has been -so disastrovs—that ithas acquired
such an. excess of ignominy, from the; preyiens as-
suinption•of an ex.eess, and,an exclusiveness, of inno-
it was not we who placed the Times ,on such
pinnacle of virtue. We did, not a.ssist them into
CC

cence,

earn At
simply. left theta to themselves. They have fallen
by their own weight. We should,ouly -advise thenu
before they agoin venture on suckdangereus heights,
to examine 'well their footing, to , acquire some geed
balittst of political truth and honesty„ and to ktek
well after the laws of equilibrium..
It- is surely time now for the Timm to reflect,,that
it never apologised for the charges. of corruption
which the Duke of Buccizucx. positively dtmied,
and which the PREMIEB. of England treated, with

indignant scorn, The cap it prepared, having been
so long without a wearer, perhaps when:, it now.
finda whose head it fits, it will gracefully, appro.
priate. As for the ether confederate, Sir .4=3
MEAN, -we expect ixO,ntore apologies or witho-ra:wais,
from him, But we cannot think that
.ipstice sn
far fail utt,, as not to stop the idle tongue whicik will
be again on the alert with its tales anti', its inventions:

It remains for an. Election Committee ,to; execute
sentence upon uPtera dirty boy." We adjudge him
no heavier punishment than to be, remitted to the
place whence he came, to mumbke over h. last and.
frefshest " dirt pie," in solitude, arta, perha.l.)s,
repentance.

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THE popular Liberalism of the clay would' seem to

be a very queer thing. One of our modern. Faxieo-
graphers defines Libera.lism. as, " free-think'ing in
politics and religion, often mistaken for a, love of
rational liberty." -No one, we think, can look around
at the present day, and scan the practical working of
that which is now known atnongst us,, and boasted
of, by such a name, without feeling tb.e force of this
definition.. It is not, howeVer, to be found fault,
with, so much at least, that men arze free thinkers in
politics, as that they claim to b o free actors,---that
they not only think what' they like, and say what
they choose, but often do what, they list, be it never so
They claim to, be free, therdore,not in
the proper and rational srmse of freed-om, but rather
as abounding in licentiousness,—thrAt is of boundless
liberty, contempt of just restraint, and a selfish and
often brutal disretard of all consequences to others.
A remarkable illustration of this has just been given
by a very devoted mere'oer of the Liberal party, at
Wakefield. That pa;•ty,
there, have lately, as we all
know' been inchkin' g a very lawless propensity in
the way of bribery and corruption at the
b(Mugh elv4tion; and since a 'Committee of the

o4trageotts.

—bought and paid for ! The exultant procession

becomes the mournful- . array of the guilty,
and the song of triumph, a meek confes-
sion of shaMe:- With great revulsion of
mind, and far different anticipations, the audience
waits for the fifth act.- It finds, after 41, it has been
listening to a new recital of " Tartu& and having
discovered the true villain of the play, cries aloud for

punishment. In truth, the fifth act may extend into
the next session of Parliament, and will not im-

probably end in the relegation of the present
Ministers to that position which might have remained
a post of honour, but which they discredited by
faction, and escaped from under false pretencei.
When faction and gold are in league, what honesty
can resist the compact ? But when faction and gold

are in league, their success can be only transitory and

We hope our readers do not fail to mark the
pusillanimous silence of the Liberal prom _ Have
they, no shift left; no excuse ;n s palliation P. Has

notions as a " Liberal,"

Liberal party lad any business to be a candidate
for the vacant seat ; so that when Mr. STUART

something in 'that free-thinking in 'politics which: has
been so truly described as apt to be mistaken fijr, a
love of rational liberty, that leads men into such

excesses,—that impels, into acts of violence, under
the impression that the freedom which they ought to
enjoy should -really exempt them -from all restraint
whatever. Mr.- Won 'S save assailant must
undoubtedly have been under sueh a delusion;: and
we think it. would net -be difficult to trace it ,to
the effect which -those-loose principles of - don:lg*
and' action, so , almost- necessarily: involved in.-the

popular Liberalism of which we speak, are directly

AUGUST 4, 1859.

House of Commons, before whom their corrupt come, therefore, what the law must interpose more direct*
proceedings were brought, has decided that the and more strictly, than it..does at present, In order that
right-minded and well-ordeled Workmen mai *pro*
_Liberal members returned by_ such means were not
entitled to their seats, they have, become more against the arbitrary violence of those who would lead thell
i,.; •
~ , , ,
astray.
infuriatealhan ever,—more free in acting, as well as It is difficult to see any good reason why Mr. Labouchefe'f
more free in thinking ; and, in short, have shown a
la. tdthids,m.omt b thate ent, ought to be raised to the Peerage,---exceyfi
aua which we see assigned , of his having'
disposition to resist the consequences of their own " disinterested' ly stoo aside in e for misconduct in a manner which seems very likely to tion of the pres
ent Ministry" and allowed some one out of
the
_bring them again under the cognisance of offended Whig family clique,—and perhaps in other respects more_
laws. One of them, more furious than the rest, has popular to boot,—to take an office which he thought he bad
- •
done so by an act: Which, should he only be dis-' himself some claim to.. We do not doubt that he was Tar
- as worthy of the elevation as either Sir Benjamin
covered, will bring him to the bar of justice *as a Mr. Vernon Smith ; but the fact is, this trio are all in iantels
criminal of no ordinary enormity. . According to M.'s the' same category. They all had claims, according to the
no one who differed from the Whig principle, upon which MiniSters are constructed, to:
have,places assigned.them ; and they have got, each of thew+

the quid pro quo of a p
to be quietly put aside

ige, fOr simply allowing theniselveg

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Lord Palmerston's convenience.

WORTLEY came among them, by invitation, with
the view of soliciting their suffrages, he,would seem
to have resolved that, for his part; he would resist :
it to the, death ; and, accordingly, when the hon..
sidta is, A
asssurtt
ttat
g
gentleman made his appearance in the streets, this The Patrie of thiYsAel4vieSn'ing says
enthusiastic and ruffianly Libtral, hating provided 1 ships of the division Fourichm, the armament of
whichd hag just been completed at Brest, are to hl
himself with al deadly weapon irt the form of a heavy
lnittsttio:tioullt, ticetrteths ear Lei ptoorttre
piece of lead, evidently prepared for the p se, by Fittetheinsaampeleodrdieerea;
being sharpened at one end, took the opportunity of vessels of the squadron commanded 13,3 T Admiral
Mr; WORTLEY pa i Bonet Villains z. The squadron of the Adriatic ham.ssng' by, to hurl it at` him, striking entered the petit of Toulon.
a blow on the temple, and inflicting a severe' and .
BOULOGNE August 2.
dangeions wound, solhat blood streamed down: his The-Satrpniatr Commissioners have admitted their
face; and-he has since;.in a great me e,,been can authority' to the Minister-President' of the Govern-
nt, Colonel Cintraine, who has convoked the
fined to Ms chamber, from its effects. National Assembly. The Marquis d'Azeglio 1135
issued a groclamation announcing. his recall
Now, if this popular.' Liberalism, with which the

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FRANCE

NEWS.

country ha -6 bne'people to remain tranquil„ and prowls'
w been made to ring, from one end to the' ing in th4l name of the King; ViCtor Emmanuel, t°
other, be really capable of so terrible a development :employi.evry_means possible. to obtaints the concur"
as this, -We' certainly thi,"ol: it' is high. tiine that it 'minceingthoeir tjuestEaunrdop:ean, Cloivlrnzsehnas, foli,nomet pollsrl.er,
ought to. be lurked into iv little more closely:than, :4 prevails.

perhaps, has hitherto been, the case. •We do not r MARSEILIZIS; August 3-
French troops are continually arriving in.our pc"
mean to say thWa Liberal, sotalled, must neeesgarily from Italy. Marshal Canrobert is expected here
be of the brutaVand sanguinary- disposition of, such a
barked.ll-ortlY• The -Ambassador of Persia has just
Advieesreceived!from Constautmople state
as thii,at Wakefield:! Certainly not.: we
that the Sultan:on his journey througlvthe provinces
have ft° many Liberals among- ourselves, who are will proceed as far as Chao. Letters received an-
most worthy' and respectable men, for any eounte- rioonno ce thatw the-C.zaris about
to thetot iesee
nd!srrtaliedaejoose
journey"
nance whatever =I t
to given to so monstrous-
dea his.majesi he accordingfwilthe joined by the Prince,Courza.
as that. But this is not exitedy the question.
What we have to consider is, whether there Se not

THE FRENCH ARMY.
The
i armypassage througJi-Turin for
Paris;.. ands received everywhere with acclamations

SARDINIA..
•
TURIN, Wednesday, August 3.
Count Erese hasleft Turin for Parts.
To=day the funeral rites of the French : and .Sar
dinian soldiers who have fallen in the causfl-of
independence were celebrated.

LONDON, STOCK EXCHANGI

LoNnax, Wednesday Evening. ,
The Funds opened _this morning at an advance 01
per cent.,. owing chiefly to the further rise whieh
took place on the Paris .Bourse.yesterday 4fternoon;
but sales followed, especially of the New and Re:-
duced _Three per Cents., and prices are now quoted the
same as at the close of the market yesterday. Little
business is going foi'ward innny department: Indian,
Lombardo-Venetian, and French Railway Shares are
firmer. Inlother respects the Share Market exhibits
no feature of interest._ The first officiaL quotation
for the Three per:Cent. Rentes at Paris to-del',
according- to Mr. Reuter's telegram; was:. 69f. 66n•
fol. the account, but the market soon afterward°,
gave way to 69f.. 55c. The latter pricey however,
is still sc. better-than that of yesterday,afternoon•
Consols opened this morning at 959 .tct .1 for the
Au gnat settlement The mresent quotations arc 944
for money, 95' .- sellers," for the 9th inst., and 9'
" burfers, for the 7th of September, The Three Pe!
Cents. Reduced Bitive been dealt hi 954. to the New.
Three per Cents. at 959; to 4-; the New Two and-
a-nalf per Cents., at 791. • India Stock, at 220
the Indian Four per-, Cent. • Debentures, 1858,•
at 947, ; ditto, 1859, at 984 ; India Bonds, at 7s. dia.,'
'aad, Exchever,Bills, at 275. to 309. prem. The'
triutsactions in the foreign stock market have been
rather more numeronsi,. Prices are. firm, at yester—
day's quotatilvs. There moderate inquiry for...
Turkish Bonds, which are quoted_ 811 to 821 the
old, and 71-f to 724 the neiv...

GonsoLs Money

TICE Ft'
941

N.A.S.--CLOSING P-RICES.- ....
I
~_ Bank Stock ....221
Three.per Cents. 95g30

~ Acci)unt .96
Excequer Bills. 2"1

RAILWAY

_Dutch R►euis
r2l.
34 I
East Lan— h • -4, /
77 yrs'
Great Western~.
Gt. W. of Canaa 141,
Gd:11. of Canada 81 I
Gt.. S. and W'. 106 i 7

SHARES

Lang. & York .. 94i •
i-- ond N. W... ' 93z-.1.
1-1-„; an 4 S. W. . . 94 r 4
.kaAnd.ss,NoEthern. 451
..1W4Jan71611'._,3"7-1- • 6-
. S. E. and Dover. 731
York,New &Ber. 914 t
York & N. Mid. 731 4{

LIVERPOOL STOCKR
The following were the elosi
Ches. & Mead .. 721 73
Caledonia Stock .. 821 831
E.Counties 11 llt
E. L. Stock .. 94 941
G. N, Stock
.1021103 f
Great Westerns 581 59
Lan. and York. 94 941
Lou. & Nor. West, 93k- 9324
„ sshares 1.-Z-
M. S. and Lincoln 35f ad 35.4
Midland `Stock . . 1031 104
Nor: British Stock 57 574

XCIIANGE, AUGUST

ing prices today :
North Staffordsh. 47-,441
N. E. Rer. C. Stck 911.92

Yorkeapital Stock 731 74t
Leeds. Stock - 44 449
I South-Eastern2l 15-16 22
Dutch Rhenish .... 5 ara

6 9-16 6

Gt. Luxem
G. T,Canad
G. W. of Canada 24t
_ -,) newshar. es 61 6

f Lomb.-V_
„ new shares

The market to-day has exhibited no pa,:ticular feature,
except in London Stock, which has been sold on the usil9l
anticipation.• of a less. dividend than was expected. The
latter will be officially announced on 'is`riday. The rest of
the market was steady, and Devers 'closed good.

THE FRENCTA FUNDS.
PARIS, Aug. 3.--,The note. in the Moniteur
morning has had coniaderable influence on the
Bourse. Rentes openr,d at an advance of 1 per cent'
• 12.15 p.m.—A reaction has set in, and Renter
have fallen to 69f. 55c.
1.30 p.m.—Thei downward tendency in the Fun
continues. Rerittes 69f. 30c.
3.40 p.m.—rfhe Bourse closes rather firm but ina-
nimate. Rr:ntes 69f. 45c., being a decline of nearlY
7., per cent . since yesterday.

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