Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-08-10 00:00:00

Old -Wheat- ineel

little new on offer is cleared off .at ielativeiy hi h priC(
Barley, nominal • -1,,11: n-,-

NEWCASTLE OR

JARKET, AUGUST 9

Small supply of English Wheat, but trade dull at Satur-
day's
.prices. Very little doing. in Poreign Flour, no change
in prices. Barley steady;• and prices firm. Oats rather
small, and little lower. from the North liberal
Beans and Peas

MARKET.--Av

• -
Market drooping.; Shipped
ding week last year 12,736

AUGUST 9

fy: itottlynt gimes.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1859

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THE DAY'S' NEWS

The House of 'Lords, last night, were engaged in
the discussion of the second reading of the Militia
Law Amendment Bill, in the course of which Lord
Stratfercl De Redcliffe alluded to the present peace,
which, he said, coultl not be depended upon as
permanent, impressing upon the. House the necessity
to the , defences of the country ; Lord
Kingsdown maintained that the Militia service would
never be in a- satisfactory state, until it was made
compulsory. After some remarks Worn arid Itipon,
the bill was read a second time, and the House

of lookinf.-

adjourned.
At the evening sitting of the House of Commons,

there was- a count out; about seven o'cilock, and no
business of importance had been transacted pre-

vionsl

There isnothing' important from the Continent
this morning. The report is revived in .Pariathat
measures will shortly be announced confirmatory of
the hopes entertained of the maintenance of peace in;
Europe. One of them, it is said, will be the reduc-
tion of the excessive duty on the importation of
certain articles of primary nec2ssity: The.comple-
tion of railroads in France and Algeria will be
accelerated, ,and industrial works in genei4d will be

encouraged,

It is reported that the whole number of troops
proceeding from Italy, who will march through
Paris on the 14th, is close upon 70,000 ; 'the proces-
sion will last seven hours in passing a given point.

The Conference at Zurich asseMbled on Monday
There are as yet no particulars respecting the
deliberations of the different representatives., The
Sardinian plenipotentiaries took part in the prOceed-

The measure for providing: a reserve of 30,000 sea-
,
men,, introduced :in the House. of Commons the other
night, is held up on the Continent as a threat against
France. The Nord, which the French authorities make
use of to publish feelers which 'they think too im-
portant. for ,the. Pattie ai4cl not important enough
for the Moniteur, exclaims with evident chagrin',
with reference to the Naval. -Volunteers (Reserve)
Bill, " This is the way in which England meets the
disarmament of France."
The% town of Posner would seem to have memo-
rialised its Sovereign, the Duke of Saxe Meiningen;
as to the danger of freedom of conscience in Ger-

many from Austrian supremacy,, and calls for the
headship of Prussia, in reply to which the Duke's
answer fills ihe local journals.
One fact. has reached Paris with the arrival of Due
de Grammont and Gen. Guyon from Rome. Antonelli
goes 'to the wall, and the Code Napoleon' has actually
been accepted at the Vatican, with the, single excep-
tion of its legislation on marriage.
Via Trieste we are in 'receipt of later news from
India and China. It would appear that, in the for-
mer country, a considerable reduction of nativ'p
troops has been ordered. Commercial affairs were;
in a state of exceeding dullness. The 'advices from
Hong Kong state that-tho..ropresentatives.pf.Eni-
land, France, and. America, had left ,Shanghae for
Pekin.

The " Valetta,' with mails from Careutta and
China, arrived at. IV!arseilles on Tuesday, and left at
10 a.m. for London. They will arrive' here to-
morrow morning. The " Pera" left Malta for South-
ampton at
.midnight on the 6th instant.

The Great Eastern is now all but cOmieleted.----04
Monday her engines were ..put'; in motion, and,
according to all accounts, they worked as smooth
and as well as if every rod and crank had been
worked for this past ten years, "There was no
noise, no sign of hot bearings, and the result; was
considered by all- the engincera- hoard to be
satisfactorY in the very 'highest degree; ad fir
beyond, what couldhaVe bedn expected." A banqu4t
took place, on board on the occasion, at which about
500 noblemen and gentlemen, inelucli:ng a great
number -of both Houses of Parliament, were in,
attendance. , „

The annual dinner and ball of the. Licensed
Wailers of Liverpool came off at. Aintree, yesterdai.
l'he gathering was very sucCesSfut-tionle. 400 to 500
being present: including a, large nuinber_l ladies.
Tho proceedings were enhanced by thci.ittendance
of the two ,hononrable members for the Southcrtn
>kvuuen-- ef_the County ref Lancashire, -whop
-re given With the'utmost enthnsitsnt 13,FaileY-
Moore was also
.very heartilyrcheerel An kitmilie
report of the prodeedings-wil be found in anothpr
.c91149a4.. _ _ :

Yesterday, the annual excursion of the Dock
. Tto(4o
,took' Nothing of any, municiThat'pr politidal
importance*iiii4spired at ',the dinner table.
'lWavataiihoimiigiuliiti. chapter of horrors a-dtiy.,
t i r, qiudtksE44P4r#9lA.lftrs_ of. theagftr. of au:old
mln, nearly seventy years of age,, near ,deeds,
object-being:l,a- Plunder! him of his ivatek;.tlie-een-
fession of the Sibley murderers; an aeoonnt of a trial

for wife murder, at Newport,. ending in a. verdict of
guilty; a shocking suicide at Sheffield, by a, French
gentleman and a man killed hi .a fight at Wrex-
ham, &c.

. .
The builders' strike in London continues; but some
of the, shops that were closed on Saturday, evening
were unexpectedly thrown open on Monday, the
document" being withdrawn, and the men resumed
their ordinary occupations. The men who still hold
out express their determination never' to "go in"
unless under the nine hours': system. They were
paid their strike money on, Monday, the skilled
labourers receiving £l, and the unskilled 155., each.
The attitude of both parties was maintained yester-
day.

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,WHETHER the world believes in Loins NArbi,ibN's

sincerity or not, it must cot some concern to see
him surrounded by the .present difficulties which
have grown out of his 'ltalian Mission. The best

commentary on • this position is kis eviderit .Wish to
reassure England on a very tender point'in order
that he may have more chance of securing her as-
sistance to extricate him. It is all very well, as
long,, as it, lasts,. to issue inflated programmes ; to
bask in the radiant hopes of an excited and enthu-
siastic people ; to flannt for two months in the
_petit
ckapeau, and earn a cheap reputation for military
virtue by a month's testa of the battle=field ; tO!re-
Vive the, reminiscences of the First Lmpire, and be
the hero of the revival, to the frantic delight of M.
DE MORNY and NLITEOPLONG ; &it all these things
leave, behind -them a harvest of results which may
cause infinite confusion in the reai*ig of them.
What many fine things
,IVQ all of us coUld do in
this world, if we, had nomecaslon to look beyond the
present moment! But, as the rake sees before him
the sure retribution 'of a premature eld,age when
his desires shall outstrip the power of gratification,
so the end of the reckless intriguer is to-..beeome
ultimately entangled in complications, which baffle
his recklessness and intrigue.
The greatest reproach that can be fastened upon a
warrior is, that made his appeal to arms ,Without
counting the cost. We wonder if LOUIS NAPOLEON
was troubled with .any thought of tht :day of
reckoning when he announced, as the object of the
campaign, the freedom of Italy from the Alps to the
Adriatic. We wender if, he felt any humiliating
descent from , the loftiness of his. anticipations or his
promises, when he concocted the peace of Villa-
franca. It is easy, and perhaps plausible, to say
now, on the retrospect of 'the difficulties and the
weakneSses, that a war . seldoni realises; either the
hopes or the fears of the combatants ; that though
all has not. been' done, still much has been achieved
for Italy; and that success in one quarter must,
compensate for disappointment in :others. A proof!
of the greatness and magnanimity of Louis NAPO-
LEON :was ostentatiously alleged, four months ,ago,
from the completeness and the bOldnesi with WhiChi
he had marked out his eanipaign,' sown the:
whole field of Italy with the promises of a generousl
and strong-willed conqueror," His.were not the cal-
culations of the cold. diplomatist, nor the moderatei,
reforms of the observer of treaties and vested rights.
The age had outgrown the treaties of nigh half m
century.., 'Nationalities must.arisc and Aveage„themi,

selves. A great principle, backed by half a million
bayonets if necessary, was to confront Austria in the
scene of her usurpation, and drive, tfier witlfiui her
proper boundaries. Nature, the progress of humanity,
the genius of the epoch, loudly demanded that Italy
should be for the Italians. Say what we will, the

world cannot help seeing a signal humiliation, an
ignominious check to its hero-worship, when it finds
the same munificent ,boaster, but two months after,
whining about ,the difficulties
,of the situation ..and
the impregnable position of his enemy ; deprecating-
that spirit of revolution which .nndei the nalpe)nt
nationality he bad already patted on the :.haekhas flte
real motive-power of the coming crisis offering the
oppressor, of Italy terms of reconciliation supposed tb
;be less favourable to. Italian hopes, than,those7Ft --4thf
oppressor's .own natural ally, and shaking han,dis
with him as it is keenly suspected, over a nefarios
bargain detrimental to the future independence of
European States. Instead of charging Europe with
backwardness, and Italy with ingratitude, one would
have expected the arch-deluder to. have slunk into 'tt
Congress like a dog with his tail between his legt,
and hidden his head behind any cover, Continental
or English, from the;just reproaches of Italy, and the
questionable repute of a patehe4Up friendship with
her oppressor. , But after the first, candour of his
repentance, on announcing what he called the disi
pointment of "hopes and illusions " by the Vill -
Inc*,,Farm, the sham, we suppoie,' must stilt
kept up, and the declaimer. resnme .hisAvonted ntylp.

What agame ,pf false pretences are the promisfs'
and perfur rapoos of Imperial Conquerors l Our et-
perience of 1848, and of history ever...since, must
'convince ;i)epf, the superfluity' of the means .lately
employed, and the disastrous..evili aixffored and at-
fficted, to secure, the detactmentiar tongikdry '4,'pat
' -, ' •••• , ''' •
Austrian domination.- The-tale is an old one, bitt it'
is a significant comment upon the past and..present
inspect of, the situation,tthat at that time a stroke Of
the pen could have not merely gainekvnstitutional
ind4endence ft0k,:,1.40#4,,, but kit thV 'Duchies
vizu 1, - -
w4i41.71,49pzt ,PoLgori! r noyi: trying to thrust-,
back "N'A
intoYtT•nßY.;<
the :arms of t • - iio - r t T
kingdom of Venice,. new.. bound hand and f t
beneatk the oppromer..:Tll6 OrrespOndipactebetwee4',
Viscount :PONSONIVE awl Mr. ABgßeßckwiand Loitt
VAlXERsTcw,,l,iittaOt, from which hayo 4pOn reoenty
~re polished, 44ii4d104:show, how littlefopposition]
Austria would have offered . to these ..beneficial
clanges!.i4l4l' in Loo por.
. sorq y's•olizn Words, 'pit
"hadieni:his :lordship's .(PALiiimis:rores)l wish to -
Afforic;n:ifn!;pae ' ifiCaiion '2'. ih6ioi4,ihV I t ,of
, , 4 .. Y
i.i
one man, who had the opportunity_in his_own hands,
.-wlayt. b4h44stiia aitid the uioderitte Jiniong,4e
In:— ~ , . .. =st., -v:l7. +ro I"'bi: ; iito;vieli:4':iffiit,4 ,of
Italials E7FMII*-11gf"r,w ' f -
Engfindiia‘,4ll;4,*fPutYPiTAVAßrliTs of
I(46Oi,iiea'rjill.CCtfff:'VftiAk;qjtlrit.
,'4l4,ve
vend, nothilitg;,l9r,"9 ipsofr- lirherty to -MOCK its
deluded votaries. 'low 18 it that thii mift lof
],Pane Ana suottut conibinect bile suoceeded, tin
1
I.
859, milyin, exio,ilinctl, '4,ll,,tjta taxis viljas, I

*link into a petty concession when comparediviikthe
qonditions, which Sardinia sae, (except for the
alliance of her scattered , Italian,) was prepared tr'
insist on in 1848 ; and, with Lord PALMERSTON'S
support, would have certainly obtained ? How is it
that Lord MALMESBURY was sent from the Foreign'

9ffice. at this very juncture of all others, in order
that the same imprudent Minister might have a

voice of authority and weight in the same

Italisa

'question which he then so disastrously mismanagea

Now, says my Lord PALMERSTON, great things hall
been done for Italy, and a basis for highly benefico

arrangements is definitively la

id ; whereas in 1848 he

positively refused to approve, as

basig of ,negoci3-

tions, an arrangement which went much further tha°

'the mere cession ,of Lombardy

and. the fopnation of