Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-09-05 00:00:00

the corners of streets, and tilting at.his. men of I democratic changes. Universal suffrag

ballot might .be

—),notly and asked for in order that the
ballot
t'er dou'ited that, like on a more extended stage ! That
'
HUPIBRAS, he was blessed with: much wit, • like j being only suitable for the morally Weak 411

everythiii

'hough we n

untruthful, the franchise must be extended-

lIUDIBRAS we-thought him shy of using it

to comprise a class who more particularly _ t

As being•loth to wear it out,
And tiiproforo bare, it not ab

aiscreditable and degrading protection. ,•/').' ~
public principle of his life, Out dodoes Air:-
e CW)]* O a contagion of hypocrisy and falsehood-OW.9g;
the constituency, and no doubt you may force.°
" a eolonelling," ready to do battle With a wind-
the ballot as' a ' last melanoholy necesity;• 7
50
mill if the elements have given it aseizlithinee of
least of evils to which:you yourself have e%PO
,d
life, and—too often,..we are sorry to say, with the
the Constitution, we may then have full score
.1
lesSons of experience and reason. . . ,to
appreciate the consistency of Mr. MILL, wil°' ,
Mr. COBDEN was very reserved at Ithehdale, I advocating it, gives it as-his opinion that. Pl°

But the moment 111'41 Kfileu4 ssa

though in the eompan3'. of friends who -.most
land is a nation of bears
We all know, indeed,
We have all All this bravado, therefore, is lost upolicol:
We eannot meet it with argument ; for Mt.

deserved his confidence,

what American confessions are.

.....
had a taste of Western volubility, which has notis a POw
DEN dZsdains argum _ent. Only it ,
-yet lost one spark of its keen and recent edge. in
•
We had all our ears and mouths open. Yet the whether to retort, upon it badinage or dig ico,
tion. Mr. COBDEN's reply to facts and priliciPbe
oracle uttered no revelatfmi ; the feantain
gave is a challenge to England, that he, 1!135:0,5,
forth neither sweet water nor bitter. The '
allowed to try his hand upon the Electorldof
despiser of Tliucydides hadt indeed written up
tern for one dal?. Of course; if the thinflinve
fiat he considerately
to a personal question of this sort, we het,
forbore to overwhelm Englaynt with its valuable •
nothing left but• to treat it as a matter (01
tot
but perhaps too uncomplimentary lessorm We
enew. ' England rejects thz,. offer. She daewe
were- babes, in short not yet preparedfor Mr.
behlere in the ballot. But not a whit taall

many pag,es of living history,

COBDEN'S strung- meat. He had muchto sag; but I she
believe in Mr.' COBDEN

spared 'Us. We have to grow ap to. a rinarer. I - -..' - • . .. .: . .
;I.oited
,
level: He cannot let up everybodyto his Pitgah.. AT one time, it must be ' on' all • hand's ati.. • lie
In the spirit of .the Latin proverb, we must take the feacfint'journal 'of the day, the Tunes''. r..
" the unknown for the niagnificent;." we must of Lolttirs4 NAPOLEON .iri. very- inimeastu .
ocr,
dream about the world beyand. Only follow guage,. designating him as a.thief and a peri R
„la
Mr.- COBDEN with humbfe faith, and doubt nut indeed no expletives sufficientlistr°n g e°-
e tt'c
the political Utopih N not iir'off. ' found to: appiy to. him. And' this eniti"'_„r
But there is one point ors which M. CoBD}IN other rrainor-ard more insignificant journ---As ro.
Short legteik dr& eftlldefaged, on matlerA..t.lxlhik interest- ' has no resdre. The letter of :Mr. DANA, giving tally' fol Toned. This long-contirued and 'll6. ilt
They sktniifi:lielegllgy written on one side of the paper only, I tOea'
and contain (in covfidenee) the writer's name and address. i a succinct account or the deficiencies and failures ing vituperation of the: Emperor are
ad
yom•••••••••••••.tia,
i
, • , bbouri '
gk
,c 011 y A 4 Av, roar • A 0 I the most favourable circunistunc,es, excites all the• the feeling- prevalent among our neig...- force 'to'
`served 6,tuttD I fire which a temporary- Polittical ,recesss has not : allies was at once to resent it by'to
•ii to allay or to &nihilists,. The ballot is IVMs.of arms_ , Trifled, .t 4) such Length W
der'
political lad.ye-love,. for whom, it would unseemly personal abuse earriedrthat the.le. •
O• f the Gbverinueizt, in boili-Ifouses Of
ea it,
lui:_d everoub
ti
es unreadya.a cin e tr:
meat, .as also of the 0
tbieuvay.(bxtr.eunnchee.of. .Ahsoirionuoirt. trot°.
.t. rePuditit •to
ppOSI larti,. . • in
• tone 'lD'assigA and highly- censured the habit-- and t° 00:4
Shia' last i.iotfir we have had two arrivals
from tits Unite Sitt4 credulous fancy—has been, accustomed
es—viz., the royal mail her as a special object of• American fancy,, a
steamer 'Arabia, from - Boston ; and . the_ passage of arms with an. AmeeiCan on•hec'behalt. is iicceptahle, he dbtdi • -at the Pre •
which the press had fallen. If Louts NAP°
aeot
as -un ou e yis ,,otr
The elty of MORA ester,' front New :York.. . al
The ArahAs ' bringsll42 1 hour, to. the French nation, it is,no.affair Jeri
•-ars to be aiome ai-iptli mportance. There au
..- Mr. COBDEN accordingly
..ottt-Berkeleys. Mr. '
is not of veiT niaril i. hest intelligence, 'but. it is too good, too pleasingly novel: a thing to. mists..
So, long as. the EMPEROR'S rule does not
.i.n or
BERKELEY. Both adopt something of 'the- s e with. our. ' sand. does ft° 'a'
national prosperity,
nercial circles m .the • .
~,nre9sl
•Market, and ninon .•
- 'g • eoilik .• . , , ,„__
____
United States, but notli* Very definite is stated. . tactics. They do not condescend, eitner of them, danger oar safety—so long aalle• is the c'•-,. of
turn out to be mei'elftfitie k elision 'in the Money ~„,
refer may, after all, •to follow Mr. DANA in particular„ or to question of the will of eight 'millions, of people---s. , f
The surmises -.?,:d which"-yM
t the truth of his various statements. It would be ' to 1131-
ested parties. Per abstfatieti • . f :the news, general -• we ought not, while recognizing,.
. Asinuations of inter: ,
and.,corineercialy- will be)--f6dik- - 1 under the proper 1 dmigerouS to do the one, and it would be too

MONDAY; EPTEIII-BEP 5, 1859.

itlW D. ,AX'S NEWS

It iso:

with his power or his dynasty

The settlement of' the' -A4ort
b.,:„,,L. • .
seems, no-w to be " dfifting7 'MA the hands
et
r-
-1
European. Congress. A stateriiMi o-Italian dispute.
) of
t has found r-
reney fa Paris, that at' th'e..sne 1
_council, helddk '
last Monday in ',commit,- tf,-;„,)- T. 4itish Cabinet
dee 'f.ir of

audacious to do-- the- other. Their game is to
weaken the effect of hiS damaging allegations, or,
as they may be called, confessions, by. a. bold

doubt,. from his moderation that the regel/til

of the French people did not break out jilt();
violence against us. Not that We would°

profession of - confidence

and disdain. Mr

hint unqualified credit for

pliV
it took

the world, through the Times

a time when he was proclaiming

The ElIll;
1144
_Ns

• _
_ided upor!. recognising,'the:ntiest, 3SI a con-
gress; Ititssia is undet-stbOd •tebbk
it—indeed, the proposal gri4 liniiO4 • 1. with that
government ; France and 'Austi4 favourable; to

that Mr. DANA'S facts are to him old tales

and when it was his-poliQ

are -said! to

that pass him by like

was expedient—not onl

ivour the assemb:

g of a

;or~~eS

Atemptl to

the numerous difficulties whicV'au
;settle the' conflicting interpo-.s. nPf

is departed from

atv arises

riticisec ti

t'we may thwart hio

States, and thcise -who

But, in process of tim

has given ri*e' to l • and
between the King of Sardinia: a
deputation, held at Turin on Sattt

.FC4I/.1 1....15Ctt tr
first man of the age"; and soon no oil

Emmanuel all but intiinated the certaintyw
gress being called to make such arraniientoi
weitld be necessary' for annexing ',that. die.
Piodinont. His words, though eautiOnkj-4
matic;. were nevertheless pregnant witttnoari.
"The TuScan Assembly will have coMiirehenti
says -the King of Sardinia, " that the al:temp-A,
mental its wish can only take place biv:negivei,
flans -which are about to begin on the Affairg.,o
Italy.. I hope that Europe will not 'reftioto
practiie towards Tuscany that work of reith4ssitiß
grievances. which it-has, under less favtittrablii,
circumstances,. practised towards Greece; `:lfe'l4l \,
gium, and; the Danubian Principalities." Th ..! .
eli
inhabitants elate 'Romagna have, by a delibil. tatc.i i''
vote;.decidedithat they will no longer submit Icii! 'i
the temporal govermnent of the Pope. PruAiti;l tut
which, most strongly opposed the assembling of 'iv L,
congress; is said`to have had her opposition soften&d.:: f
down:; and;, judging from present appearances,: "‘""t

its 3s
hF to

the' interfbrence of- a congress seems inevitable,
Indeed' it-is,saidthat a small congress is in reality

assembled: ate Ostend, at the present moment, the
King: of the• Belgians taking, it is averred, a
leading. part- iir it.
The strike among the operative builders has
not yet been- brought to an. amicable settlement.
According to the, latest, accounts, the funds from
the provincial: trades unions—on which the me-
tropolitan turn-routs mainly calculated for manna

of support during- their contest with their em-
ployers—aro' not coming in in anything like the
sums required to• meet the necessities of case,
or in a measure at all: commensurate with the ex-
pectations which had been formed upon these
contributions.. Under• these circumstances, those
generally well-informed on such subjects conjec-
ture that the strike cannot have a much longer
duration. In the meantime, it is distressing to
think of the amount of suffering which must
have been entailed on the wives and families of
those who engaged, with such inadequate means,
in so arduous, and we fear so ill-advised, and dis-
astrous a struggle.
_

Home news— offer few subjects for comment.
The case of Smethurst has now received such an
altered shape as must, to a great extent, denude
it of that activity of interest with which, for
nearly a fortnight past, it had been invested.
The culprit has been respited during her Majesty's
pleasure, and there the matter at present rests.
In what shape it may be revived it is impossible
to conjecture ; but certain it is, that few, if any,
cases of criminal prosecution and conviction have
awakened so great an amount of general discus-
sion.

-.--

Mr. COBDEN is, without doubt, a great man

a very great man. He is a politician of the old

heroic stamp. His courage rises in danger.
Difficulties which appal or discourage other men
are his opportunity. When a principle has
arrived at the turning point of trial, his generous

spirit resumes its most vigorous championship.
When a cause has reached at the climax of un-
popularity and condemnation, his advocacy puts
on its best face, and its most undaunted con-
fidence. He has not encountered a good oppo-
sition suite the days. or the-Corn-laws; and has,

thb

beforet-n

putt dOciv

tit

polit

"derTICId;.

be lion-est

1 ase their eM

4'-eventA, arrd'iri

"'that Dogberry
". DANA e aria 'hal& m

Now ati thii, Nsto.

a certain clinf,

Mr. COBDEN'ti C

stance, does not care

nance to, arguinent.

they only sympathise

soon excite their, synitp.
tion of pluck. It' t

they applaud ; hut' when. they
and cry out, " Bravo,.OOLID.EN,
the demagogue may.calenlateth.
the climax of success. But this
the head at an argumentwilkuQtsi
portion of English electors

It pa

character of a dodge; which is abo

distasteful to the English, mind. fi

has an idea of frightening- "s ini.

when he cannot reason- . us into

sion. Finding it impossible in the

American evidence itself,. VI betray us it

conviction, all he goes for is. that we mi

silent and content while the experiment is
tried, and the acute end of the wedge pat
He knows the difficulty there will be in Rau
it "out. He knows the advantage which an m

scrupulous and restless party will not be slack tt

y be

sufficiently fulsome with which to Oct
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