Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-04-11 00:00:00

THE DAY'S NEWS

There is very little news this morning touching
the forthcoming election. The papers generally are
filled with rumours, one half of which have really no
foundation on fact. So far as Liverpool and the
county is concerned matters remain pretty much as
we stated them in our impression of Saturday, the
only new item being. the address of J. C. Ewart,
Esq., which has been issued. It will be found in our
advertising columns, and is just such a document as
might hav e been expectedfrom him. A meeting le tweet'
the Liverpool committe and the Manchester Reformers
has been held by deputation in Manchester, for the
purpose of arranging for the conduct of the election
of J. P. Heywood, Esq., for the county. The utmost
good feeling and cordiality is reported to have
prevailed. In London the most strenuous efforts
are being made by some of the leading ConserN a-
Lives in the City, to push forward the requisitions
which have been in course of signature with the
view of inducing Lord Stanley and Mr. Thomas
Baring to offer themselves as candidates. With
regard to Air. Baring, no doubts seem to be enter-
tained but that he will respond to the call of the
requisitionists, among whom are included many, if
not most, of the great influential capitalists of the
metropolis ; but with regard to Lord Stanley the
question wears a somewhat different aspect. The
noble lord only issued his address to his constituents
at King's Lynn on Thursday last, long after he must
have beome aware of the intention of the requisi-
tionists ; and as in that address, he expressed a
sanguine hope that his connection with the borough
which he had represented through five Parliaments
would not be severed, it is not unreasonably con- ,
eluded that he had at that time, at all events, fully
determined to maintain his present seat, which he
has on more than one occasion pledged himself not '
lightly to forsake. The Globe says, the requisition
has already proved a failure.
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generally believe him to be. His letter is well
worthy of perusal.
We have later news, this morning, from India
and China. The dates are—from Calcutta to the Bth
ult., Singapore to the 26th, and Honi, Kong to the
26th February. The news from India continues
favourable to the restoration of peace. About 6,000
Sepop., have surrendered in Oude, under the terms of
Her Majesty's proclamation. Tantia Topee, in
Central India, had left the rebel camp with about
300 followers, and, it was believed, he intended making
for Jaloun, in Bun dlecun d. The main bocty of the rebels,
according to the last accounts, making for the Jungle
of Banswarra. They had been beaten back from
the Jeplee Pass. They are said to number about
three thousand. At Calcutta, freights remained.
without change, and Exchange on London was
quoted at 21 to 21 N, and at Madras 21,1- to 22. The
accounts from Singapore mention that the Portu-
guese Governor of Macio, has concluded a treaty
with Siam.. Accounts from Batavia of the
23rd March mention that the expedition against
Boni had been successful, and that Bojou had been
taken by the Dutch. The Hong Kong advices men-
tion that the French squadron had quitted Cochin
China, leaving a small party of occupation, who had
been attacked by the Chinese, and of whom 200 had
been killed. Rich gold mines have been discovered
in Tonquin. At Hong Kong exchange on London
was quoted at 461 to 472. At Canton a small busi-
ness was going forward in exports, and a moderate
business in manufactures.
The steam ship Asia arrived yesterday from New
York, with advices to the 30th ult., and brought
$297,740 in speCie on freight, and 87 passengers.
The news is four day's later than that previously
received, and possesses some points of interest. We
give full details as usual.

The news from the. Continent since our last seems
of a very threatening character. In our second
edition, on Saturday, we published a telegram from
Vienna announcing that the long expected crisis is
at hand, and that a corps of 50,000 men were
about to depart from that city to Italy, and that
another corps of 60,000 men were to assemble
at Vienna, whilst a reserve corps of 70,000 will be
placed in Bohemia and Moravia. The Paris
Moniteur of yesterday (Sunday), publishes a fresh
article on the policy of France' towards Germany,
and an abstract of which will be found under the
head of Latest Telegrams. Its point is to show that
the attitude which France has assumed over the
Italian question should not inspire distrust, but per-
fect confidence. It says France would not assail in
Germany that which she would desire to protect in
Italy. Her policy disavows all ambition of conquest.
The Paris correspondent of the Times says that
Austria justifies the demand for the disarmament of
Piedmont, on the. ground that it is not merely with
the. Government of Turin thfit she has to deal, but
with thousands of her own Italian subjects —deser-
ters from her standards—and with the bands of
revolutionists ready to invade Austrian territory:
The correspondent of the Times, at Vienna, says
that during the last few weeks Austria had made
many concessions for the sake of peace. One unpa-
latable proposition is made after another by France,
with the object of placing Austria in a false position,
and the British Government seems invariably to urge
the Cabinet of Vienna to accept them. In the
highest circles, it is believed that the Emperor
Napoleon is insincere, and the armaments of Austria
are, therefore, carried on with the greatest energy.
She begins to be tired of a diplomatic game in which
she is invariably the loser.

A most frightful and fatal colliery accident has
taken place at the Main Colliery, near Bryncoch,
South Wales, by which the lives of no less than
twenty-five persons have been sacrificed. We pub-
lish the fullest details.

We have to announce the total loss of the British
war steamer Jasseur, together with 40 lives, on the
4th ultimo, having struck on some hidden rocks to
the northward of Jamaica. Full details will be found
in another part of our paper this morning.

THE GENERAL ELECTION,

THE country is now all excitement and bustle for
the General Election, in the midst of which it is
expected we shall be before the end of the month ;
and already, from the addresses of the chiefs of the
two great political parties, one may see shadowed
forth the particular issues which are more imme-
diately and respectively involved in the pending
conflict. These issues appear to us to be very much
the same, on both sides, as those which have been
more or less comprised in the whole Parliamentary
struggle that has been going on since the accession of
the present Administration. That struggle has
been moderated very much, ever and anon, we are
aware ; and it must be admitted that the Opposition
have, on several occasions, made a virtue of necessity,
in their forbearance, if not their favour, towards her
Majesty's Ministers. But still there has been the
mind, the spirit, on either side, which only wanted
the opportunity to display itself in decisive action.
Had there been any unanimity in the ranks of the
Opposition, upon any general policy, there is no
doubt that they would have upset the Ministry long
ago. But not only were they at variance among
themselves, as to any distinctive and decisive
principles, speaking in general terms, but they also
felt conscious that they were not in a position to
furnish a Cabinet from their own ranks. In this
way, therefore, the Derby Ministry was one which
existed, in so far as the House of Commons was
concerned, very much upon sufferance. It has not
been the less on that account, perhaps, that it has
succeeded as a Government. Even members of the
Opposition themselves, have felt constrained to
admit this, Even among those who felt under the
necessity of voting against the Government on their
Reform Bill, there were not a few who disclaimed
the intention of thereby implying any condemnation
against them. Mr. LINDSAY no doubt spoke the
sentiments of several Liberal members, as well as his
own, the other evening, when he declared, that " if
the question lately put in issue had been that of
want of confidence in the Government, he would not
have voted against the present Ministry. So far as
he was able to judge, they had conducted the busi-
ness of the country well and wisely. He could not,
however, give his approval to the measure of Reform
they had introduced, though by the vote he felt
compelled to give he was leading towards the
overthrow of an Administration in which, he was
bound to say, he felt great confidence."

This measure of Reform, then, it was, which those
who really wished to overthrow the Ministry saw
would afford an opportunity of uniting, in a vote
against them, not only all the various sections of the
Liberal majority of Lord PALMERSTON'S House of
Commons, but some even of those who had been
numbered in the Conservative minority,—including,
of course, such members as Mr. LINDSAY, who, on
other grounds, "felt great confidence" in the Go-
vernment. And that issue, we observe, is made by
the Liberal candidates, generally, the principle, if
not the only ostensible motive, in the great political
conflict on which they are entering. This is evident
from Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S printed address to the
Electors of the City of London, soliciting his re-
election. The defects, the insufficiency of the Minis-
terial Reform Bill, on the one hand; and the neces-
sity of
a more perfect and more comprehensive
measure of Reform, on the other, these are
the two great points on which he relies, for
the justification of his recent resolution, and
numerous, o
his more immediate claims to their favour.
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