Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-11-09 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.—Nov. 8

We have to report a quiet market for Cotton, without
material change in price. The sales, including, 230
Pernambuco, 83d. to 84d.; 200 Egyptian; 7Z-d. to 9d. ;
800 Surat, 41d. to 54d. • are reported 6,000 bales,. of
which 1,000 are on speculation and for export.

LIVERPOOL PRODUCE MAREET.—Nov. 8

SUGAR.—The market keeps steady but rather quiet.,
being confined to 150 hhds. 110 barrels,Antigua at 38st,
and, 1,000 bags Paraiba- at 21s. 11d. per ewt. in bond,.
both from the quay.
, MoLnasEs.-130 puncheons Antigua.are reported at
17s, 6d. per cwt., ex shi,P.
RIUM.-175 puncheons Demerara have changed hands,
but the price is not reported.

Ric..---A fair amount of business has again been done
in Rice, the sales, comprizing 4,500 bags OLVRangoon at
Bs., 1,500 bags Necransie-at Bs, and 2,loo*bags Bengal
at 11s: to 14s. per cwt. ; 4000 bags Ballatn, offered at
auction,were withdrawn.

Swims.—Of the Seeds brought to public s&e, the da-
maged portions only:found buyers, with the exception of
500 bags sound Rape at 435.,f0r fair brown, ancl39s. 6d. to
40s. pet- cwt. for middling yellow Scinde.
DYEWOODS.—No sales reportde.
DELYSALTHRIES, &C.-5 casks red Oporto Argots, at
438. ; 6 tons Catch, at 265. ; 20 tons Brimstone, at
£8 ss. for thirds, and £8 15s, per ton for seeords ; small
sales of Ashes, Pots at 275, 6d.., Pearls, 276:. 9d ; 95
cases fine- Ptsra India Rubber, sheet, biscuit,. &c, at
2s. 4d. ; 15,tons American Linseed Cakes, at £9-2s. 6d. ;
3,000 bag -Ground Nuts at £lO ss. to £10.75. 6d.
300 bagabSago, Flour at 15s. 3d. to 16s. 3d. Ginger :
150 bags African at 325. to 323; .6d., duty paid.
OILS, &c.,--Palm £45105. to £46;. Tallow unchanged:
P. Y. C. 60s. 6d.; South American 595. ; small sales of
Malaga at £5l.
BoNns.—£4 15s. refused for common.

LIVERPOOL CORN 14A,REET.—Nov

With a better attendance of the trade at otmCorn.
Exchange this morning than we have recently hadkcca-
sion to notice, there was more confidence evinced on. the
part of both buyers and sellersis and a fair amount of
business tooklalace in Wheat at an advance of fully 2d.
per cental from the currency of this day se'nnight.
Flour was more easily disposed of,- but without much
improvement.. Barley, Beans, aTul•Pear. realised former
rates, the two former meeting inure attention. Oats are
held with increased firmness, and there is more disposi-
tion to buy Calmed at a slight improvement. Indian,
Corn meets with a speculative inquiry, and commands
an advance of Is. per quarter from the prices of Tuesday
last.

RIVALS AND EXPORTS
let to the 7th November, inclusive

From the

gortkern rbiints

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1359

THE DAY'S NEWS

We notice with pleasure the arrival of their
Royal Highnesses the Prince • and Princess
Frederick William of Prussia, who arrived yes-
terday at Dover, in her Majesty's steam yacht
Vivid. Tne Royal visitors were re'ceived by
Lord Alfred Paget, Equerry to her Majeßty, and
the Prussian Ambassador. Their Royal High-
ness having reached London, proceeded by
special train to Windsor.

The Zurich Treaty still hangs fire. At the
moment when it' was about to be signed, a ones-
tion. was raised, it seems, by the Austrian Pieni-

potentaries, which rendered references necessary ;
and until these are obtained the document is.put
aside. When, at length, it is really signed,' sealed,
and delivered, the' convening of the Congress is
immediately to follow ; and the report now is, that
it will be held in Paris, and that England is to be
represented by a plenipotentiary-charged by Lord
John Russell with some most stringent conditions
regarding the future -disposal of the Italian States.
Whether it be owing to this circumstance or not,
we cannot tell ; but it is now' understood that
neither the Emperor of Russia, nor the Prince
Regvnt of Prussia, 'will consent to a revision of
the Treaties of 1815, and will be prepared, if not
to resist, at least to restrain as much as possible
the adoption of the principles which the English
Government are understood to insist upon.

Although no war has yet taken place, and it is
hopetrwill not now take place, between either
France or Spain and Morocco, yet both those
European, Powers have assembled large bodies of
troops on the Moorish frontiers, which, according
to the last accounts,• must be in a very bad con-
dition a mutiny having broken out among the
Spanish soldiers, while the French forces are
being decimated by cholera.
The Pope would not seem to lose confidence in
Louis Napoleon ; or, it may be, that he finds it
expedient to make a virtue of necessity ; bat his
Holiness has requested the French Emperor, it is
said, to. allow his troops to occupy, for the pur-
pose ofTrotection, those portionso of the Roman
States. which have thrown off the temporal
authority of the Popedozn. Should the request
be complied with, it will be a proceeding utterly
at variance with theivhole course of policy which
the 'French Emperor's faithful ally of Sardinia is
pursuing, towards that portion of Italy, and
which, it was understood, was approved of by
his Imperial Majesty of France.
The' Vines of yesterday- devoted a leader to
Mr. John Bright 's 'latest manifesto on taxation,
exposing very forcibly the absurdity of supposing,
that the working classes are alone qualified to
regulate the national finances, and direct the
national taxation. Our contemporary, no more
than ourselves, has any faith in it at all, and no
respect; apparently, for Mr. Bright, as the
author of anything so- preposterous. "He
tell us ' the leading journal observes, " they
would emancipate their own class from taxa-
tion ; that is, they would have tea, coffee,
sugar, beer, spirits, and tobacco duty free. Per-
haps they would." He adds that they would do
this by""laying it on the richer classes—that is,
by increasing the Income-tax, which Mr. Bright
calls odious ; by increasing fourfold the Succes-
sion Duty on real estates.; and other similar
expedients. We will frankly say that we should
think this a high price to pay for cheapening gin
and tobacco. As for the hope that 'the house-
holders are the men to stop- war and reduce the
establishments, particularly when they are to pay
no taxes, and leave that to their betters, it is

qualifications.
ntrarYtoe
oxp! mr.
experience."
personal Jt
al
the author and director of a polity so destructively
then the
s
democratic, is • thus dissected :—" Though pro-
'fessedly a man of peace,. he has far more of,the
lLigAhtndhimse th
wolf than of the lamb in his composition ; and
when he expatiates on the horrors of war, and:
'denounces the profligacy of those who think it
necessary to be prepared for it, we cannot help
suspecting that'some portion of the bitterness
which he displays may be due to the feeling-that
the agitator's voice is drowned amid the din of
arms, and that, in the face of a common danger,
civil discord must, for a time at least, be quelled."
All this is quite true. One's only wonder is, that
the intelligentworking classes cannot see through
it all, and refuse to be carried headlong towards
the vortex into which the "Brummagem" agitator
would hurl them.
The Board of Trade has exercised a wise dis-
cretion is deciding upon making an official inquiry
into the loss of the ill-fated Royal Charter: The
inquiry will be commenced on Tuesday next, in
St. George's-hall, in this town, when, doubtless
the fullest and most authentic information—.
meagre as it must necessarily be from the circum-
stance of all the officers being drowned—will be
elicited by the nautical acumen 'of the assessors,
not only as regards the question as. to how the
Royal Charter got on shore in Red Wharf Bay,
but also as to the construction and general effici-
ency of the vessel. It will be seen that a sub-
scription, in aid of the families of those who
perished, has been commenced in this town, and
that Messrs. Gibbs, Bright, and Co. head it by a
donation of two hundred and fifty pounds.

WE wish our Conservative friends to be fully
alive, especially this week and this day, to the

fact, that our local Council, like the national one,

is marked by the presence of a Brightean' section

of politicians, by whose p

arted. activi

tv many

of its deliberations

disturbed, and a sinister

aspect given to its otherwise innocent and useful

contests. We said, , some short time ago, in

speaking of Municipal politics, that men cannot
split themselves mentally into two ; and tha
therefore, the Borough voter could not be ex-
pected to divest hiniself of political prejudices in
the discharge of Municipal functions. Now, if
this is true of all men, and of even moderate par-
there
par-
tisans, it is true in a much deeper sense of that
band of ardent factionists,—we might almost say,
conspirators,—Who are bent on prosecuting zeal-
ously their crusade against everything that s.
is " some soul of goodnes
In all things evil, we are to believe,,

Every agency, per..
nicious as its main object may be, P'erforma unin-
tentionally and, unconsciously SC 1e work that