Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-12-28 00:00:00

as been to march to Westmi

the full disclosures of its

atimate desigus upon

the whOle property of the English Church ; to-

gether with the apathy among Churchmen, which
failed to meet such a bold and infamous- avowal
with a shout of execration from one end of the

country to the other; have given the Times some

reason to think its patronage a concession, and

its advocacy, however moderate, a gratuitous

favour.' " says Lord JOHN MANNERS;
"House of Commons could be brought to believe
" that ,the great body of Churchmen were in

"earnest in defence of the Church's privileges,"

their advocates in the Commons would not be, so

often outvoted. This is the lesson which has now

to be learnt ; and the political events of the last
few months have been often referred to in these
columns as being its best teacher. There is but

'little time now to get the lesson up by next
Session of Parliament, when our enemies will again
come out in all their speciousness and all their
presumption, and the Church will be again called
upon to state her case. Why should not every
congregation in the land assail the ears of Par-
liament with a manly and honest petition on the
subject of Church property ? Why should not
the movement, so well begun in this town, cul-
minate into a practical and intelligible result of
this sort ? It is said, to be a Constitutional part
of our system, that the petitions of the people
have considerable weight with the legislature
•
that represents them. Who knows the electric
spark that might be struck through the
breasts of our assembled legislators by some five
thousand repetitions of a stern and reasonable
utterance of this sort ? At all events one thing
is certain, that such moral support from Church-
men would, avail to strengthen the resistance of
the Upper House to dishonest designs, until the
subject_ is better understood, and approached with
fairer and more moderate intentions. Our Par-
liamentary allies deserve this response on our
parts. But, what is more, they need it.

ACCIDENT IN NEW-STREET, BLRMINGHAM.—On
Sunday, as a carriage belonging to Mr. Barnett,
jeweller, of Sir Harry's-road, was passing down New-
street, the horse took fright and dashed with great force
against... a stone post at the corner of Lower Temple-
street. The concussion damaged the carriage, broke the
post, and so seriously injured the horse as to render it
necessary to kill the poor animal. Mr. Barnett, who
was in the carriage, fortunately escaped unhurt, as did
also the coachman and groom.

PARLIAMENTARY REPRESENTATION OF THE 171•TI-
VERSITIES.—Lord Elgin received a deputation from the
Glasgow Association of Graduates on Friday, when this
subject was brought under his lordship's consideration.
The deputation consisted of the Rev. M. Cochrane, Dr.
Bryce, Rev. A. K. M'Allum, Rev. T. Logan, Dr. Corbett,
Dr. Coats, Mr. G. Black, Mr. R. Black, and Mr. J. Came-
ron. The views of the graduates on the justice of conceding
to the Scotch Universities Parliamentary privileges
the same with those already possessed by the univer-
sities of England and Ireland, and the certain advantages
which would accrue to the universities by the adoption
of such a course, were brought forward by the Rev. M.
Cochrane, whose remarks were enforced by Dr. Bryce in
some statements as to the relative number of graduates
in the various universities. his lordship received the
deputation in the most courteous manner, and expressed
his personal sympathy with this object, and his willing
es to receive a memorial embodyingg the facets of

the ea,se

lid,- of cc

to gratify the Cabinet of. Mien.

ready made up its

'se, with a view

nphlet by the chairman of

rcles at Paris,

edit of France

A confidence

and he implores the C

The public

'reach and

,tention in

The writer asserts that

to all exigencies

n the future is established,

ngress not to make a pre'

carious,-badly settled, uncertain peace.

12.10

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.THE FEENC}I FUX:

The Bourse opened fiat, but with'

ReAtes, 70 10

The closing quota-

tion of Rentes, 69 90, shows a decline of nearly

ti since yesterday

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AUSTRIA

A letter from Frankfort speaks of the deer
alarth felt by 4 Austria least the Villafranca peherle

should
,explode, and a blow be thus dealt to.ll°.
influence in Europe, which must have a serioie

non in Hungary

GAZETTE NEWS.

The*War. Office notifies that her Majesty 41
hold a presentation
.of the Victoria Cross _at

Windsor Castle on Wednesday, the Ith JanuarY

Persons entitled are directed to apply for the nee"'
sary orders to the Adjutant-General.—M. de
Pianelli is appointed French • Consul at Se's-
castle.—Mr. Stolterfoht is appointed Consul At
Liverpool for the city. of Lubeck.

The case of the Hon. Hugh Rowley 6.11
his wife was resumed yesterday; after rilue_l,
evidence had been given, Mr. Paynter
remarked that it was not until his wife's Pout°
was closed that Mr. RoWlei came forwardoej
prefer charges of perjury, and he strongly advi_.ici.
their ;withdrawal, for which purpose he show
adjourn the inquiry for a week.

The following appeared in a part 4)f 011 r
impression of yesterday :

FRANCE,

[REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.]
Taesday.—The Of this 1110111 t°e,
announces that Prince-Jerome has entered into a st 3.

of convalescence.
The Journal des Debats contains an article, Si-01°416,11e
John Lemoine,; pronouncing itself favourably 03
pamphlet-Le Pape et is Congres. M. Lemoine pr.9ves'4
by quotations from his former articles, that he al`sla7,l3/a
had *messed the same opinion on this subject, .00
demands that Italy should remain mistress of her °,60
destinies. According to his views, the Congress of l'w
has to take no resolution, but is only called together
- •

recogtiise the expressed wish of the Italians. tvAl
The Papal Nuncio has intimated to Count Wale
t the
the impossibility for the Pope to be represented a- the
Congress, if an official denial were not given 0,
rumoured authorship of the pamphlet Le Faye '

Congres.
The Univers has received a second warning for
-
170
article and an address to the Pope, signed by 14.ffilwbe
Venillot. The reason for the warning is, that u
question of the Papal States, treated by the Unit" to
be freely discussed, it could not, however, be allowea,ce
endeavour to organise a political agitation in
FPI"
undera religious pretest.