Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-01-17 00:00:00

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The parties importing
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have not avowed themselves--said cannot be. fowl('

They foist upon the people of the South, through
the press, doubtful and hesitating apologies for their
conduct, but take the utmost care to avoid legal,
responsibility. The object ef the adventure was
not to test the constitutionality of any United'
States statute, but rather to sound the temper of
the South, relative to this business. The success

of the experiment, thus far, has been such as to
drive the government journal into the mournful

admission that federal laws against the slave trade

cannot be enforced, and that in consequence
republicauinstitutions are a failure.

Although. the advices from the continent state
that the money markets in the several capitals

had become soinewhat easier and. that much-more

confidence was-felt in the Stook Exchanges, it is
still believed that war is imminent between France

and Austria_ France and Sardinia on the one
side, and Austria on the other, are really at issue
on more than one point, and though at least the
two principal parties, France and. Austria, pretend
that they have no wish for war;. yet the circum-
stances of: the• case, and above all the fact that
Sardinia,. which openly confesses. its ambitious
designs, is- placed. just between the other two, do
not permit us to consider: the peace of
Europe so well secured as it ought to be.
The article in the Constitutionne/ con-
tains the expression that "if the treaties
only be observed, there is no ground for apprehen-
This rather empty phrase shows, we are
sorry to say, an unjustifiable forgetfulness of one
of the most important diplomatic documents to
which the late war against. Russia gave rise,
namely, the solemnly recorded declaration of the

Paris Conference that the States of the European
family ought to consider_ it, in. every particular

case, was a-duty to try arbitration beforeresorting
to the sword.. We hope that the omission belongs
to the writer only,. and not' to the Government
whose cause he advocates.. Not the least
important part of our foreign intelligence
consists in an authentic, communication on
the real nature of the intervention which
Austria kis been represented as undertaking in
Servia.. The Ministerial journals of Vienna say
that the Austrian. Government has never thought
of offering any other assistance to the Turks than
assistance for protecting the fortress of Belgrade
against any possible attempt of the Scrvians to
take it. This, we are told, is no infringement of
the Paris treaty, Article XXIX. of which refers
to Servia only, while the fortress of Belgrade,
forms part and parcel, of Turkey Proper.
Our telegraphic intelligence might lead us to
infer that Austria would, soon find cause for
pouring her troops, into-Belgrade, if she was really.
determined upon doing so. For things are 114
settled in Belgrade.. It is singular that Prince_
Milosch has not reached, that town before this.
We now learn the cause. He refuses to accept. the
dignity which the Skupstchina offers him unless
their decision is ratified by the Porte. It is also,
said that the Senate stands in the way of the
arrival of the Prince, that the Skuptschina^ will
have an extraordinary sitting on the subject, and
that the Porte refuses to recognise 31ilosch. as. the
ruler of Servia.

According to our advices from Dublin. Mr.
Justice Crampton has actually resigned.. He did
not take his seat in the Queen's Bench, on, Friday
or Saturday, and it is known that he has been
anxious to release himself from the cares of office.
The impression is that the learned judge, acting
on advice, has determined to remain, on the bench
no longer. Rumour has not determined that the
Solicitor-General Will go to the Exchequer, or
succeed to the seat in the Queen's. Bench, but, in
either event, Mr. George, Q.C., will be the new
Solicitor-General, and there is equally general
belief that Mr. Purcell will succeed Mr. George
as crown procurator for Tipperary. Mr. George
is the late conservative member for Wexborough.
Mr. Purcell, who is to be his successor as crown pro-
curator, has always been an active and consistent
opponent of liberal opinions, A Belfast paper
of Saturday publishes the information laid in the
case of the Irish secret societies in Belfast. The
document is of considerable length. It gives the
approvers, Caroline and Kelly. The form of oath
administered and the nature of the constabulatory

evidence is also given, and all the particulars of

the recent arrest of Bernard Boyle: This docu-
ment reveals the whole nature of the case up to
the present, and is of remarkable interest. Its
publication was altogether unexpected.
According to Iferopath's Journal, the dividend
for the past half-year on the London and North
Western Railway will be at the rate of 41 per
cent. per annum, with a balance of £20,000, and
that the Great Western will only be at the rate of
2 per cent. On the South Eastern the dividend
will be at the rate of 5 per cent, and on the
Brighton it-is rumoured it will be fully 7 per cent.
The Monetary Times of Saturday gives rumour
to the effect that a new Turkish loan for 15,000,000
francs has been negotiated; and adds :—" We are
not in a • position to say by whom, or on what
terms the contract has been entered into. Nor
can we say that we are suprised at the report.
We have long endeavoured to show that the
financial embarrassments of Turkey must be very
great, and in the present state of Europe they are
not likely to be in any degree diminished."
The case of Scully v. Ingram, which was tried a
short time since, and a verdict for £3OO damages
obtained against the defendant, was again brought
before Lord Campbell, on Friday, and a rule nisi
-was granted to shew cause why the verdict should
not
Tiere no beiset
damage,
have
aside,
ve
been some rather serious riots at
Wigan, arising out of a strike there. So threa-
tening was the aspect of the mob, that it was
deemed prudent to summon a detachment of mili-
tary from Salford. There was a good deal of
stone-throwing, and several of the police were
hurt, but not seriously. None of the offenders
wereseeurveed.
We have
been favoured with a glance at the
comparative statement of receipts for dock tonnage
dues, and dues on goods, for the year ending 31st
December last, from hwe find that there is

THE NORTHERN TI

an increase of nearly £6OO, viz., £374,558 last
year, against £373,987 in 1857.
An important special meeting of the dock com-
mittee was held on Saturday. We report the
proceedings at full length.

THERE was reason to hope that Europe had
entered upon the New Year in peace, and with
prospects of peace ; but now already are there, if
not wars, yet rumours of wars, which are exciting
the Continent from its centre all round to its

confines on every side. Austria is turning restive
under that Treaty of Paris, of recent date, which
reconciled and adjusted those conflicting interests
and influences, the derangement of which had no
little to do in producing the late unhappy war
between Russia and France and England. Austria,
most sensitive as to her boundary rights, and most
jealous of the neighbouring States, whenever they
may seem to, indicate progress- in liberality and
enlightenment„ has taken upon her to order her
C'ommander at Semlin, to enter Belgrade at the
first call of the Turkish Commanding officer.

"Austria pretends,"• it is stated, "' to justify the
order by the special interest which the neighbour-
hood of Servia to her own dominions must needs
awe.ken in her withA regard to everything, which
takes-place there. The tranquillity of Servia, she
saysf•is necessary to. the tranquillity of her own
possessions near the-frontiers of the P'rincipa'lity.
The Titrkish garrisons at Belgrade, she. continues,
is .au. essential guarantee for this tranquillity.
There%re, if this garrison is threatened?). Austria,
for her-own sake, must hasten to its succour."' But
the other Great Powers naturally declare,. that
they cannot assent to any such argument as this,
however plausible it may be. "If rea
locality and special interests connected withit,
they reply, " justified an intervention, Austria,
who to-clay claims the right of entry for Servia,
might claim it to-morrow for the United Ptinci-
palities. Russia might then as well, on herpart,
discover motives for a similar intervention.'' And
not only would this upset all the amicable
arrangements that were made—and made for)-the
preservation of the peace of Europe—but it is
utterly at variance with the Treaty, that of 1864

sons of

to which Austria herself is a contracting party

The object and intent of that Treaty was•to-
debar the-neighbours of Turkey from the right
of a direct and exclusive intervention, into which

they might be easily drawn! by personal considera-
tions. The Porte itself, as suzerain power, has
not the right of intervention in Servia, Wallachia,.
and Moldavia, except when acting in harmony
with the whole of the Powers who signed the
treaty. Austria, in wishing to march into Servia,
without a previous understanding with these
Powers, pretends to a right which is in direct
contradiction to the letter. and spirit of the Treaty
of Paris As a matter of course, therefore, . the
other Powers refuse to allow it. They are bound
to do so, if there is to be •any integrity in Treaties ;
and if there was not, the peace of Europei.the
power ofrthe world, would not be safe for a single
day. So, that if Austria persists in her present
defiant course, a rupture with France, England,
Russia, and Prussia is . inevitable. These P.Owers
are now, it is understood, energetically protesting
against her conduct. But should she, in spite of
their protestations, refuse to withdraw aik order
which expressly violates the Treaty, by virtue of
which Servia, as well; as Wallachia and Moldavia,
is. placed under the: collective guarantee• of the
contracting Powers, of the Treaty of Paris,. there
will be no alternatiVe, it is to be feared;. but to
enforce that Treaty:- by having recourse. to, arms.
It is Austria, defyiug, Europe. And any- Govern-
ment so acting must of necessity incur• a very
awful responsibility..

A haughty, self-willed, and despotic -antwracy,
like that of Austria, may perhaps find: reasons of
its own, and. congenial with its character, for
pursuing suchlamourse. But the public. opinion of
all the rest of Europe must be dead against her.

The public opinion of her own State,. were there
any that dared to be expressed., would probably
be so too.. But there is rm. such influence,
unhappily,
,under the arbitrary system of govern-
ment to which her people are subject. Austria is
one of those States which forcibly illustrate the
saying of a distinguished American statesman,
that "'what subsists to day by violence, continues
to-morrow by acquieseenee),and is perpetuated by
tradition ;. till at last the hoary abuse shakes the
gray hairs of antiquity at us, and gives itself out

as the wisdom of ages.".. This autocratic system)

however, has had its aas,-; and if further evidence
be wanted, not only of its unsuitableness for the

present, but its mischievousness for any age, it will
assuredly be found in, Austria's iniquitous proceed-
ings, should she persist in lighting up the flames
of war in Europe from any such motive as that by

which she is now being influenced.
It is the con propensity of such Powers as

Austria, to be continually pursuing a course of

covetous ambition, even,

if need be, at the

cannon's mouth. As Sir WALT= RALEIGH; in
his less enlightened, and therefore loss liberal age
could see and acknowledge, "If their borders be
divided by mountains, they. will fight for the
mastery of the passage to the tops, and finally for
the towns that stand upon the roots. If rivers
run between them, they contend for the bridges ;
and think themselves not Well assured until they
have fortified the further bank. Yea, the sea
itself must be very broad, barren of fish, and void
of little islands interjacent, else it will yield
plentiful arguments of quarrel to the kingdoms
which it severeth." But, thank God ! we no

longer live in these " ancient barbarous times,"
when such doings were tolerable. Austria may

imagine otherwise. But should she put the
question to the decision of the sword, she -will
most likely find out her mistake. The wisdom
she may gain by such experience, however, will be
dearly bought. And the worst of it is, that those
Powers which have to teach her it, must them-
selves participate in the fearful cost of the
instruction. One would fain hope, therefore, that,
even under such a provocation, hostilities may be
averted—that the resisting Powers may be able to
maintain their rightful position without having
recourse to so terrible an extremity as that which
now souls so alarmingly th::-.ltJaeci. We trust

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