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

but unanimous)

Prince Carignan regent, to gove
in the name of the elected King Victor Emmanuel

rn the country

. It would seem from the speech of the Home
Secretary (Sir. G. C. Lewis), at the Lord Mayor's
Banquet on Wednesday—a report of which ap-
peared in our paper of yesterday—that England
has not yet been formally invited to take part
in the Congress for the settlement of the affairs
of Italy. Should such an invitation, however,
be addressed to het' Majesty's Government the

assurance was given that it should receive, as an
act of public duty, their full and careful attention.
There can be no doubt, one would suppose, of the
correctness of this statement, falling from the lips,
as it has done, of one of the ministers themselves ;
and it only shows how little reliance is to be
placed on the reports that are floating about in
Paris, which Inive been assuring us for some time
past that Louis Napoleon had not only .invited
but brought the British Government to take part
in the approaching Congress.
• The Times not unreasonably expresses, a very
qualified astonishment at the recent act of the
titular Roman Bishops of Ireland, as British
subjects, in addressing the Pope in such terms as
'they have done. " That a number of the subjects
of one Sovereign," it is observed, " should pre-
sent a dutiful and loyal address to another Sove-
reign appears at first sight a very strange and
startling proceeding, and the wonder is in-
creased when we are told that those who
signed the address are persons of education, occu-
pying a prominent position in their own country."
But, it is added,—" The wonder immediately
disappears when we learn that the persons in
question are Roman Catholic prelates, and that
the person so addressed is no other than the Pope
himself." And for this reason, that it is evident,
howeVer they may know how to distinguish
between things temporal and things spiritual—
however they may venerate the Pope, as the
infallible head of their Church, and yet know
what is duo to their sovereign, as the chief magis-
trate of the country of which they are citizens—
that they will not give practical effect to their
knowledge and their consciousness. The Popedom,
as a temporal power, has evidently, not only all
their sympathies, but all their
and they denounce, therefore, all resistance
to its government as sacrilege, without any regard
whatever to its character or its conduct. There
are millions of our fellow creatures and fellow
Christians inhabiting the States of the Church,
whom these Irish prelates, as our contemporary
well expresses it, would " hand over for ever to
the extremity of tyranny, corruption, and degra-
dation, not from any fault of their own, but be-
cause their misery contributes to the independence
of the Sovereign Pontiff, and that any vindication
by them of the rights of our common, humanity
would be regarded as an injury to the whole
Catholic body throughout the world !"
We publish to-day another letter from that
very eminent tidal authority, Professor Haughton,
of Trinity College, Dublin. His remarks on the
last occasion, it will be remembered, had refer-
ence to the loss of the Royal Charter ; this time
he refers to that of the Pomona. In the former
case, it was shown that the tidal current instead
of driving the unfortunate ship on the shore,
actually aided her while under sail in keeping off
the shore ; in the case now referred to, it is also
very clearly shown that the tide, so far from driving
the ship on the Blackwater-bank, where she was
wrecked, actually would have enabled her in
getting to the southward, to the extent of
five miles, to have extricated herself, had
due advantage been taken of it. The reason
why, in either case, such advantage was not
taken, and the dangers to which the vessels
were exposed thereby escaped, was, it is con-
tended, that those in charge of the ships did not
really know whether the current was with them
or against them. Surely such a question as this
well deserves the attention of all nautical men.
•The arrival of the Armenian (s.s.), with the
African mails, puts us in possession of late intel-
ligence from several portions of the West Coast of
Africa. No features of very general importance
are presented by the news so conveyed; but the
Armenian has brought a good amount of specie,
a valuable general cargo, and twenty-three

allegiance ;

passengers.
The adjourned meeting of the Town Council,
held yesterday, like that of the previous day, of
which it formed the concluP'
which considerable --

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almost inseparable from election contests, have
now been so far ventilated as to clear the moral
atmosphere of the Town Council ; and, it is to be
hoped, that henceforth all party and political feel-
ing will give place to a hearty co-operation for
the general benefit of the town and the increase
of its prosperity.
At the weekly meeting of the Dock Board,
yesterday, a subject was introduced, happily of
rare occurrence in this port. On Monday last a
barque was wrecked within a few miles of Liver-
pool, and within sight of the shore. In this
unhappy wreck it appears that all hands on
board, including a Liverpool pilot, . perished.
Grave accusations have been preferred against
the crew of the life-boats on the occasion,
who, it is averred, if having used the ordinary
amount of energy, and having displayed the
degree of courage they are customarily
credited with exercising, might have saved the
lives of most, if not all, of those who so miserably
As was properly stated by the chair-

perished
man of

the " Marine Committee," by whom the
allegations have been partly considered, "it was
not for him nor any one there to pronounce
when the feeling of the men (the life-boat men)
ceased to be courage and became fear." The sub-
ject has occasioned much painful speculation out
of doors ; and it is, as will be seen from the report
of the Dock Board meeting, to be further inquired
into.

The popularity of our excellent newly-elected
Mayor, T. D. Anderson, Esq., appears to have
expanded greatly—extensive as that undoubtedly
was previously—since his elevation fo the civic
chair. It will be seen that this popular esteem is
about to receive a suitable as well as somewhat
unusual manifestation on Sunday morning, parties
of the electors, in different districts of the town,
having intimated their intention of publicly
escorting him to St. Peter's Church, on the occa-
sion of his inaugural attendance on Divine Service
that morning.

WE adverted, two days ago, with a seriousness
that perhaps seemed unsuited to the occasion, to
the presence of a Brightean spirit in the
Town, Council, and to the evident fact that all the
disclaimers of political motive could not avail to
exclude this peculiar habit of mind (where it is
possessed) from even municipal deliberations.
We cannot set limits to the influence of a tem-
perament, as we can to the intrusion of a definite
principle, or a conscious prejudice. The "jaun-
diced eye," to which " all seems yellow," never

gets a clear

The medium transfuses
everything, even the least susceptible of discolor
the light of reason and truth of

ation, and robs

ta, grace and hue.

'The unhappy bei

.ngs• possessed with this spirit

are to be pitied, more than condemned. They are
victims to a melancholy madness, and are to be
compassionated, not reasoned with ; to be dealt
with perhaps gently and with a calm indifference,
rather than harshly or pointedly denounced. It
is unfortunate that this peculiar and sad infirmity
•wholly precludes their appropriation of any work
w'hose active requirements might diversify the
morbid tenor of their meditations ; for their
faculties are borne too wildly to be trusted.
Almost the next best thing to a total extinction
of their dangerous or annoying eccentricities, is

not to allow them to distract us in our course of
public life; taking care at the same time just to
keep them under with a firm and decided hand.

Mr. BRIGHT, on the national and parliamen-
tary stage, is to be guarded against, as we would
guard against a noxious insect that might disturb

our rest, or blemish our apparel; but he as also to
be pitied. Mr. ROBERTSON GLADSTONE, on the
local and the municipal stage, is,

in like manner