Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-09-19 00:00:00

COLONIAL PRODUCE AMI3,ffETS

In the colonial markets, this week, supplies of: most
kinds of produce have been large, and,,lvith the excep-
tion of some artides affected by the Gate news from
flh in a _ 1 w,ernricFahauphPPnpcta.hlishetl. The trade. h ntv-

ever, does alai appear generally anxious to Increase their

stocks.

MANCHESTER SHARE MARKET.—SEPT. 17.
Trunks,l; Dovers, 22 11-16; Canadas, 144 ; Leed:

BOROUGH HOP MARKET.—SEPT. 17.
)(1 and fine new hops in request, and the tt

dearer; other, ,qualities are tolerably firm, but yearlings

continue to give warm pie

nange in (

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c(TI.J.e gartijertt iT)-ittlts

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1859

THE "DAY'S NEWS.

Wrrii respect to the future operations in China,
it is understood that her Majesty's Government

force from India, to co-operate with the vast ani-
menta,tion of both naval and military armaments
which the French Government is about to send

The excitement occasioned by the Chinese dis-
aster has had the effect of creating an extensive
business in the tea trade ; but there has been no'
farther advance of any consequence in the prices.
The copy of the addiess to the Emperor of the
French, from the province of Bergamo, bearing
nearly eleven hundred ,signatures, will be found
in another column. The fact of such -an address
having been presented, was mentioned in our im-
pression of Saturday. Its object is'to convey the
thanks of those who signed the address to the Em-
peror, along with their regret at the failure of
the projected deliverance of Venetia.

We announce with deep regret, in another part
of this sheet, the death of Mr. Brunel, the dis-
tinguished civil engineer, and 'whose name has
been so intimately connected with the-experiment
of the Great Eastern steam-ship. His death, in
fact, is attributed to. the mental over-anxiety
occasioned by that experiment, he having been
carried from the ship to his residence in a very
dangerous condition, from which he never rallied.
He may be said, therefore, to have died at his
post,—and in the very prime of life.

We give elsewhere a brief account of the far-
ther- proceedings of the British Association at
Aberdeen. The meeting, it is evident has this
year been, more than ordinarily, a great success.
Never, it is acknowledged, did the " Granite
City" witness such a gathering as that' which
graced the opening,—owing, of course, mainly, if
not wholly, to the presence of the Prince Con-
sort'. - But in other respects, the meeting has been
one of the most successful yet held under the
auspices of the Association.
By the arrival of :the British- and North Ame-
rican royal. mail steam-ship America, Captain
Miller, which arrived yesterday morning from
Boston, we have journals from the United States
to the 6th, and intelligence by telegragh, via
Hali-
fax, to the Bth instant. Besides 58 passengers, the
American brought 550,000 in specie on freight.
The intelligence by this arrival, though interest-
ing, does not contain any feature of marked im-
,. portance.

In another column we give the highly inte-

on the occasion of delivering the awards allotted
for middle-class examinations by the University
of Oxford. In that address will be found a large
degree of practical knowledge of the world, and
of the Briti-' -le, t - the

peop„ °rough, )ear on
question of education, as that affects the religious;
the moral, the social, and the political position of
the middle and lower classes of our fellow-coun-
trymen. The address referred to is well worthy
of, the most careful attention and study, less on
account of the novelty of the views it promulgates
than for- the valuable practical hints which it
supplies.
The intelligence received from the Continent
continues to be inconclusive and undecided.
Lord Cowley, the British Ambassador to the
French Court, was, at the date of the latest ac-
counts, about to leave Paris for Biarritz.
A great fire, the largest which has occurred
within the city of London for many years,
broke out on Saturday morning, in Ivy-lane,
Paternoster-row. The fire was ultimately ex-
tinguished, but not before property to the value
of many thousand pounds had been destroyed.
The inquest on the bodies of the. sufferers by
the explosion on board the Great Eastern was
resumed at Weymouth on Saturday, and again
adjourned. The effect of the evidence given on
that day was to remove the onus of the responsi-
bility. from Mr. M'Lennan and Mr. Dickson, who
was in command of the vessel during her till).

WE had occasion the other day, on reviewing the

incidents of a parliamentary campaign just closed,
to remark that Churchmen did not know their
own strength. Af•this early period, before the

next parliamentary campaign opens, we think it

expedient to repeat the remark, and to press upon
Churchmen the warning it implies. The lesson is
no hard one. The evil to be remedied is only in
the imagination, and the manner of, correcting it
is simply by forming a juster conception of our
position and our resources. We are strong enough;
what we require is to know our strength. We
have plenty of truth and reason on our side ;
what we want is boldness enough to realise this
conviction, and to act upon it.

What, in the first instance, is necessary, is to

become alive to the fact that our position has, in
the last half century, undergone a material change,
and .with the change become more capable of de-
fence. Neither the scorn of the world nor the
zeal of irregular religionists can now reproach the
Church of England with insensibility to her
mission, or any marked degree of laxity

in per-

forming her proper work. This was in days gone
by the great secret of sectarian strength. It was
this that gave a colouring to many changes, and an
excuse for much opposition. Men tried to think, or

to make others think, that in reviling the Church
of England they were pleading for earnestness
in tone and spirit, and were more than justified
in disregarding the variety or the eccentricity of
the forms which that earnestness assumed. But
the venue has now changed. Not " judgment,"
but revival, has "begun at the House of God."
It is from the Church that zeal has spread itself

to all other religious bodies; and even other
lands, and very dissimilar forms of Chris
have &aught from her the sacred fire

The pas:

iou assumed by ether bodies has, therefore, ma-

terially altered its aspect; and we are compelled

to say that much of the zeal of religious comp

tition has turned into enmity and factio

tactics she has now to meet are those of

dire-et opposition, and •,they are wie

all the artifice of secular politics

The object

now is to destroY the inalienable firivileges, and

whatever. is involved in -Vie exclusiveness of the

Church of England. Her ancient charters are to

ad th

precedents of ages to be

,yed by successive blows.. But, now that

her mere tarty

y accidents arc assailed with a

:er because more ez

men to be less confident in resistance because sh,

Has she less right to her revenues because she is

have its full and unfettered course, vet the

Church of England is every day vindicating more

and more that best of all rights to her descended

privileges, the zealous discharge of the dutic

which they

imply and enable her to fulfil,

Churchmen are apt to feel themselves abashed

Ind. somewhat

arrogant reproach(

:eek to gain character for

their opposition. But though the

ights of

property" may be plausibly infringed, when its
duties are pretended to be neglected, yet at least

when no such allegation as this can be

adv'anced,

such infringement must be robbery and spol

There are two ways, thereforE

n which th

battle of the, Church, both in its spiritual

character and its mere secular ace

must I

fought. It Must above all be zealously and

unceasingly alive to the duties it owes to the

nation; this is its internal work. And more than
this, it must directly and unflinchingly defend its

secular position, nor yield one inch to the politi-
cal onslaught of a simulated religionism. Let us

illustrate the dependency of these two modes of

security and defence by the question of Church-

rates. Here one thing is plain. If a parish church

originally built for the poor, and made over a

free gift to a district, is filled with appropriated

pews, is in fact sold to the rich, and removed

above the reach of the poor, Church-rates become

an. exaction and a scandal. Let the Church be

given back to the poor, and relieved from the

worst abuses of the Pew-:

;ystem, and honest men