Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-07-21 00:00:00

lIERN DAILY TIMES

The Paris correspondent of the Times says, in
reply to the Provisional Government, the Emperor
has stated that he did not desire to force the Grand

uke upon

The Lombards are apprehensive that they will be
Idled with some proportion of the liabilities of

Piedmont

The Monitore Toscana publishes a decree of the
ProviSional Goverrunent, enacting that representatives
of the people are to be elected for the purpose of de-
ciding by a majority of votes what the future govern-
ment of the country shall be.

The Federal Asseznbly of Switzerland has brought
in a bill suppressing all jurisdiction on Swiss terri-
This measure originates in the refusal of the

an Government to incorporate national bishoprics
veral Swiss parishes, at present in the dioceses
_ r.

The Independence publishes as a report, that the
English Ministry are asking how long the French
troops are to remain in Italy.

causes some surprise in Paris.
We publish to-day some particulars of the news
from the West Indies and the South Pacific Coast.
In the West India Islands general good health pre-
vailed. A large quantity of rain had fallen in
Jamaica, which interrupted.,business.
The' hilian revolution has been brought to an end.
he insurgents had laid down their arms at San
uan,- and Copiapa was in the hands of the Govern-
Several political prisoners, tried by court-
martial, had had their sentences commuted, or were

banished from the country. Peru was again in a
state of revolution,. Col. Zeballos having pronounced
against the Government. He had 2,000 men at his
back. The republic of Bolivio was progressing in
her newteareer of political consolidation.
We give some particulars of a most diabolical
murder near South Shields. A man, named John

Shaftoe Wilthew, m

iv in custody,

e recovering,

The storm of Monday uppears
,to have inflicted
great damage over a very wide-spread area. Through-
out Lancashire and Yorkshire the storm seems to
have been general 3 and from the lightning, the rain
and the hall, dam

ge was done boat- to prop rty an i
to the crops. Unfortunately there has be4n Ecme 133 s
of life too. The storm also visited Jersey, and the
General Hospital was severely damaged lay the light-
nin

A rather serious accident occurred on the Oxford,
Worcester, and Wolverhanipion Railway, near Dud-
ley, on Tnesday. No lives were lost, but a number
of the passengers .were injured.

WE, expected from the Emperor Louis Napoleon a

manifesto drawn up with his usual.taet, to,put the

best face upon his Italian campaign and its barren.
We did not expect such a confession of

results

weakness and'disappointment as marksahis rejoinder

to the great officers of State, published in our third

edition of yesterday. Every act of his life is a puz-
zle ; every word he utters is an enignia. If we could
calculate with any degree that his words were

like the words :of other men,--meant to disclose

his thoughts,--we might trust ourselves to specu-

upon the meaning of so remarkable an

appeal to the baffled nationalities, and indignant

politicians of Europe

It is a puzzle upon the' sup-

position whether 13f -its- truth or its falsity. If true,
the candour with which he acknowledges his own

ignominyin_retreating from " a barren war," is one
Of the mast unexpected terms which the crisis has
the humiliation which :would then

taken. If false

be proved to be needless, except upon the assumption
that it points to' some ulterior purpose, Hof such a
magnitude as to, defy prophecy, is still mare extra-
ordinary. We shall return to the subject.

is gratifying 4o see the country

-with- the

mrage of the may.. of business who has reason to

apprehend that the -early' balance will disclose for-
midable difficulties. and deficianoies in the estate—
,

applying `itself to the investigation of its finances.
The truth, :which comes home to every one of us in
Ile daily 'details of domestic life, that without the

money-pow.er the machine cannot move a step; that
though money is the root ot ill evil, the want, of it

crown and perfection all misery ; comes tome

le =tier but once a year. Often enough; since
in .another ,capacity this great secret of living is

eve tOrMeirtillg us to find out new interpretations.
Arta when the Senate does address itself to its vanual
task, 'it•is almost appalling -to contemplate the lordly
ease with which it handles millions, as thong:hits
tomb were the,touch of Midas, and could turn every-

thing to gold.

It is a lesson to the :world:to learn witli.what reso-

lution,a free and,prosperctas people can contemplate
a drain upon its wealth. With what ease and ab-
sence .6f. complaint it vigorously applies itself to
meet,great national exigencies : no sordid .Selfishness

suppose that we shall be in a position to meet Im-
perial demands'with nine millions and a-half less of

revenue this time twelve months. How the defi-
ciency will be provided for, when the time comes for
a lapsed,lncome-tax, remains to be seen Mr. GLAD-
STONE has evidently found himself at a disadvantage.
His present scheme is provisional—he has commenced
a system of living from hand to mouth, and has post-
poned dealing with the subtler problem of financial
To say the least of it, he has his character
yet to make. The bolder efforts of his last campaign

economy