Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-10-11 00:00:00

NOTES OF THE DAY.

One can scarcely be surprised to find, that the riv—
potentiaries at Zurich have failed to overcome all the
difficulties attending the negotiations, and that
treaty of peace is yet ready for signature. The propo-
sition, on the one hand, of the annexation of the
Duchies to Sardinia, on the gronnd that the formation

OCTOBER 11, 1859.

- of a Considerable State in Northern Italy is essential to
Malian Independence; and the determination, on the
lather,
of Austria to resist such an arrangement, cannot
but present a conflict of purposes, difficult, if not im-
Possible, all at once to overcame. And yet, if it be'not
e overcome, it is evident there can be no peace. The
;.• 'exiled Dukes can only be restored by Austrian bayonets,
E' and can only be kept in:their Sovereignties, when re-
stored, by similar means. And this would seem, at
e
Present, to be the only alternative of their annexation
r I

3 Sai•clinia. The French Emperor, meanwhile, will
1/111Y give advice; and that advice, it is understood,
Vould.not go the length of favouring a Sardinian an-
nexation.

The French Government is 'now interposing at
Parma, in a way which shows a determination to
resist that revolutionary movement which, under cpver.
'of the late war, was to easily effected. The French
'Consul has been directed to quit Parma, unless exem-
plary punishment be immediately inflicted on Colonel
Anviti's murderers. Should this not be done, it
Is fully expected that the French Government
Will declare that anarchy exists in Parma, and that
foreign intevention must now put a stop to popular

This intervention may not unlikely give a new
'urn to the whole proceeding. In the, meantime, the
e of Parmese independence would seem to be in a

most critical position.
The two brutal murders, one in South Staffordshire,
the other in Yorkshire, which have occurred within the
last few days, are said to be attributable, we observe, to
the " same, fruitful source of crime—jealousy." But
for the real source of this, and other descriptions of
Clee
riltle'
now so fearfully on the increase, we must go
per than
that. Jealousy may have been the imme-
diately exciting cause, but this arises, as too many other
less disre
provocations to outrage now-a-days do, from that reek-
gard of moral and religious restraint which at pre-
sent prevails to so appalling an extent among the lower
l'asses of the people. There is evidently a spirit abroad,
under the influence of which, such as get infuriated by
passion
will stop at nothing to gratify their revenge.
This latent cause of so much dreadful crime, therefore,
needs to be dealt with in a very different manner from
that which is usually adopted.
el The Wakefield election commission continues to dis-
ese a course of bribery and corruption pursued for the
zn r Leatha
purpose of effecting. the return of the Liberal candidate,
in, which far exceeds in extent anything one
an idea of before. Sums varying from ten to sixty
pounds were freely offered, and as freely taken, for votes
°n his behalf. In the examination on Saturday, nearly
,t7entY In
confessed to their having received bribes
Poore' twenty, tw"tY, thirty, and one or two of them even fifty
in -14,-,s, for their votes I It is amusing to see to what
toldfn
sogtr elli°llB excuses the Liberals are having recourse under
eiendous
;,„ an exposure of their corruption. We are
endeavou
' or
—B‘aneel that " while the Liberals have really
their p weed to aid the commissioners to the utmost in
will 7e; the Conservatives, when their turn comes,
conditYet
off
filv
seeres - r?" most unwilling witnesses,—the great
,aria.my
observed by the latter in the
object elections having led to this opinion.". The
course, ofeLsach a statement as this is easily seen. Of
testi ue Conservatives cannot be expected to bear
practinlony to bribery and corruption which they have not
pretend s ; and yet, because they may not do so, it is
d thatthey "unwilling witnesses," and that
uothing, c are
Aecres, an be got out of them on account of the "great
tra- invariably observed ! " This, we say, is a most
nie
loos mode of excusing the Liberals ; but it is too
nsParent to be available.

THE GREAT EASTERN.

TlTillis magnificent vessel, and triumph of nautical and
*n °p,-"s neering science, has more than realised the expeeta-
fo
We stated rmed respecting her as a sea-going craft. As
yesterday,?lclock on Saturday she left Weymouth about three
-11 lyhead in afternoon, and was expected to reach
however, cour
, and some sseurporfi Much gratification,
surprise,
_
treaerly hour v sf. 4- was experienced here at an
" er'dy, by the publication of a telegraphic
message, which stated that the ,6 Great Eastern had
'trrived at
infe_nt, at
-tlista Eolyhead, and was then about five miles
Past twelve o'clock." Another telegram
.o,_, 'riled us that she passed Cork about half-past stx•
Teli on Sunday evening.
Seniu,ur States that the Great Ship passed outside the
of thle Ilvslands, ran across to -Kinsale, and steamed most
that ay' Passing Cork with fore and aft sails set ; and
,liiiessasutollonitry.erage her speed was upwards of fourteen
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