Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-01-10 00:00:00

NORT/TERN DAILY TIMES.

Madras at 335. 9d., 300 cases Bahia at 255., aztd.l,ooo-
- Paraiba at 23st 6d. per cwt., ex quay.
MoLAssrs.-215 puncheons Barbadoes have 11 alised
18s. 6d. per cwt.
Rum -60 puncheons Demerara have been taken
without change. - . -
COFFEE.-Two cargoes. of Rio (together 6,300 tags)
have been sold afloat for the Continent, but the terms
have not trtinspired: "
RICE.-The sales comprise 1,000 bags Bengal at 10s.
to 10s. N., and 2,000 bags damaged Moulmein at 7s. 9d.
per cwt. for second class.
SEEDS.-100 tons Calcutta Linseed, to arrive, at 495.
per qr., cost, freight, &c., 800 bags Bombay, on the spot,
at 545. 1,980 bags Bengal Rapeseed gat 455. per qr.
DYEWOODS.-20 tons Campeachy Fustic at £6 Mc
per ton.
DRYSALTERIES, &c.-150 bales Gambier, at 17s. 6d.
for sound, and 16s. 9d. for heated and damaged, also
400 bales to arrive, at 16s. 9d. all faults. 20 tons best
seconds Brimstone, at £Bl7s. 6d. Small sales of Nitrate
of Soda at 15s. 3d. to 15s. 6d. 200 brls. Ashes, Pots
at 275. 6d., Pearls at 295. 250 tons common Bones at
£4 17s. 6d. per ton. 100 cases Cassia Lignea, on the
spot, at 90s. per cwt.
Ons, &c.-Palm £43 10s. to £44, with sales thereat.
Since Friday 40 tuns Olive Oil sold at former rates ;
-Corfu, .L 54 to £55, moderate enquiry. No change in
Tallow. 2,500-brls. common Rosin at 4s. 3d. to 4s. 4d.,
with low to fine medium at ss. to 10s. per cwt. Nothing
- reported in Spirits of Turpentine.

whose claims is still resisted,—,-a circumstance

which naturally leads to a revival of the wish
to acquire Cuba;*" by fair purchase,"—to be paid
for, of course, by the claims in question. He re-
grets that there is no improvement in the affairs
of Mexico; and again asks, the earnest attention
of Congress to the unhappy condition of that Re-
public. These are the most prominent points of
the Messa,,e, and all, perhaps, in which we on
thia side of the Atlantic can take much interest.

No one seems now to expect that the Congress
will assemble, and it seems questionable whether
_ _

Louis Napoleon meant that it should—so that the
ultimate adjustment of Italian affairs will be left
to the Italians themselves, aided, no doubt, by
the very disinterested advice (?) of their imperial
" liberator. Indeed he seems already to have
fixed the " consideration" for which he will now

permit them to realise their long cherished hopes.
"If," says the Opinione Nationale, which is be-
lieved to be not entirely uninitiated,—" It Italy
decided for the annexation and unification of the

North and Centre, England would gladly accept
the combination, and France would do the same,
on the condition of Nice and Savdy being restored
to her." Nice with its strong citadel tower-
ing on the rock at the mouth of the Var, is
undoubtedly an important point between France
and Italy, and even the poor little Duchy of
Savoy, which for good reasons was restored to
the King of Sardinia in 1814, would be a desir-
able acquisition to France in a strategical point
of view; and no doubt Louis Napoleon knows
why he asks for them—if it be really so. But what
comes of the boast he made at the commencement
of the war, that France had no territorial gain in
'view ; and what shall be said of it, if this is only
the first step towards the ultimate and permanent
substitution of French for Auitrian. ascendancy
in Italy, and for the erection of a strong chain of
fortresses from which France, in Nice and Savoy,
like Austria from the' quadrilateral,. might con-
veniently frown _upon the Italians, and awe them
at any time into obedience to their new masters.
If they are content to have it so, it is not very
likely that the consent of England will be deemed
essential to the bargain any more than it was to
the double transfer of Lombardy.
The dismissal of Count Walewski by the
Emperor—the return to favour of Count Cavour,
and the re-employment of Garibaldi, although
each separate and independent facts, are all of
one complexion, and point decidedly in one
direction. That is to say, the final struggle with
the Pope is evidently being, hastened to a
crisis ; or, in other words, the Emperor of 'the
French seems desirous of following a decided
course of policy so as, if possible, to shut out
every ray of hope or chance of success for Papal
resistance, thinking, perchance, thereby to avert
the necessity of the very undesirable catastrophe
of an actual collision with the army of the Pope,
and thus relighting. the torch of war in Italy.
But as yet Antonelh remains in power at Rome,
and while he is so, anything like submission or com-
promise from that quarter is hopeless: Accordingly,
with all human chances against his impracticable
pretensions, the Pope seems determined, not-
withstanding, to' make all the bustle of prepara-
tion for ultimately sending his army into the field,
by planting recruiting bureaus in the most unlikely
and objectionable places. At Ancona and Mar-
seilles, and elsewhere, this has been attempted;
but it is said that France supports the protest
of Piedmont against the enlistment of foreigners
for the Papal army, and particularly against the
wholesale introduction of Austrian recruits into
Ancona ; and we should not be surprised next to
hear not only of the removal of the Papal re-
cruiting-office at Marseilles, and the rev. Jesuit
father who superintends it, but that Napoleon 111.
should feel it, as did the First Napoleon, his duty,
and necessary for his interest to banish every Jesuit
from the French territory. As to what may be
the requisite intermediate steps of the process for
attaining the great end in view it were impossible
now even to guess; but as to the result,—who
can doubt that it is written in the book of fate,
,that Pius IX. must submit td the force of cir-
cumstances, and that the Italian people shall be
free—at least from their Austrian and Papal
oppressors—with or without a Congress.
Prussia has hitherto given forth an uncertain
sound on the Italian question—halting betwixt
her desire to see the exiled dukes restored to their
thrones and her apprehension of the practical
difficulties in the way of effecting that object ;
but she has, at last, given utterance
•to an
unequivocal opinion, through the . organ of the
, Ministerial party; that the restoration of the
Dukes is simply impossible, and that the next best
tinny will be the annexation of their territories
t) Sardinia.
- Lord Cowley has returned to Paris to resume
his diplomatic duties there. As might have been
expected, nothing has yet transpired as to the
result of his visit to London. The fact just
stated, however, sets at rest, and confutes the
Times' Paris correspondent's speculations as to
the probability of Lord Cowley not returning to
Paris at all—or at least of his being detained in
England until after the meeting of Parliament,
in consequence of the difficulties of the "situ-
ation."
All that is mortal of that great historian,
statesman, and poet, Thomas Babington Macau-
lay,—Baron Macaulay, now lies interred in the
. Poets' Corner of 'Westminster-abbey. His funeral,
it will be seen from another column, was solem-
• nised yesterday afternoon, with all . the honour,
and with every mark of respect which the nation
could pay to his glorious and immortal memory.
,st

IF the member for Birmingham has turned
" Whig," as some of his admirers say, and has
given an almost Conservative appearance to some
of the sentiments of his last speech, there is
laothing for it but to take him on his own show-
ing. If he is 'at all inconsistent in the new
modes by which his moderation is to be shown to
the world, he must even yet submit to criticism.

In this calmer interval of reason, we are
especially sorry to hear him still continuing his
foul-mouthed vein, but intensifying it by an un-
necessary and vulgar calumny. When he accuses
Lord DERBY of having appealed to the constitu-
encies with an unequalled power of corruption, he
is conscious to himself of repeating a charge which
was made only for a party purpose at the time,
and which no one has ever believed in, either as
matter of anticipation or as matter of history.
More than this, he is perfectly aware that events
have not only failed to establish any suspicion of
the sort, but that they have most signally and
o-verkhelfairigly- turned it uponthe opposite side.
But when we add to this the reminder, that Mr.
BRIGHT'S own near relatives and political
supporters,are the most notorious and offen-
sive instances of the real abode of corruption at
the late election, we shall, perhaps, establish Mr.
BRIGHT'S reputatioh for adepth of moral shame-
lessness, which the rankest Tory had spared from
his catalogue of defects. But this fraterniser
with the working classes happens to be stained
with one peculiarity which does not much agree
with his professions. The haughtiest aristocrat
has scarcely reached Mr. BRIGHT'S pitch of arro-
gance and hauteur. And if he has, he never
shows it by mean and little ,artifices, The

equality. and fraternity _man never fOrgives -a
slight, or a fancied wound administered to his pride.
Lord DERBY, it appears, spoke of him with a
rather contemptuous, well-bred, indifference ; and
the apparent sneer has dwelt upon Mr. BRIGHT'S
spirits to this hour. He ,thinks himself abun-
dantly comparable to Lord DERBY ; but unfortu-
nately no ,one else thinks so. It is a fine concep-
tion, therefore, to bring down the nobleman to
his own level—to the level of his own brothers-
in-law. When Lord DERBY and the Messrs

LEATHAM are spoken of in the same breath, Mr.
BRIGHT'S end will be fully answered. This is

very small ; but, all things considered, we forgive
the restless, splenetic, bilious republican.

Now that Mr. BRIGHT has given signs of re-
ceding from his out-and-out theories, it may

not be an 'Unsuitable t, moment for remarking,

how entirely absent his whole public life
has been, from advocacies unstained with

the suspicion of very mixed motives. Great
schemes have been set on foot of late years for the
social amelioration of the working man, and much
sympathy among the higher classes has been
elicited, and brought to bear upon the work.
Mr. BRIGHT, so far as we are aware, has taken
no part in these philanthropic labours. It was a
nobleman that came to the rescue of the infantile
factory operative ; but Mr. BRIGHT, so far* from
seconding his humane object, directly opposed it.
The greatest efforts have been used on all sides of
us to spread the appliances of education, to im:
prove the domestic- accommodations of the poor,

and in numberless ways raise the tone of morality
among all classes of the people. While all this
stirring of the dry bones has been going on,
Where has Mr. BRIGHT been ? Dreaming of the
political supremacy of his class, hating the aris-
tocracy, and setting the people on fire with rash
and fanciful theories. The motto, of the anti-
corn law movement was certainly that of a
" cheap loaf for the poor man ;" but when we
see that Mr. BRIGHT has never distinguished
himself by an active or public regard for the
numerous projects of philanthropy, we are justi-
fied in ascribing to that movement much
motive power in the prospect, very prominently
relied upon, of increased prosperity to the
manufacturing, and increased depression to the
landed interests. So in the abortive Reform, or
more properly Republican agitation, the motives
of regard for the unenfranchised are too much
overlaid by the absorbing. envy displayed towards
the House of Lords, which is to be wounded
through an extended representation ; and to the
whole landed classes of the country, who are, in
the contemplated democracy, to have black mail
levied on them in the shape ..of an unshared
burden of taxation. We cannot believe in, the
disinterestedness of a proposal. to remove the
weight of the national expenditure from the work-
ing classes, when capital is to share in the
amelioration. There have been too much passion
and too much littleness in Mr. BRIGHT'S career
hitherto, for his critics to grant him that first and
noblest virtue of great reformers, the single eye.
Had this been his characteristic, he would not
have needed so long as this to learn that the
most effectual way of improving the condition of
the lower classes, is to win over and not to
alienate the upper. But it is Mr. BRIGHT's
greatest misfortune that those upper classes have
not needed any winning over or any tender pro-
pitiation. Their willingness and zeal to promote
the best interests of the people are too apparent
and too wide-spread to leave much ground vacant
for the profitable trading of Mr. BRIGHT'S con-
cealed envy and pretended zeal.
Let us not be misunderstood. We have no
right to ask Mr. BRIGHT to be a philanthropist.
But when he lays pretence to such extreme advo-
cacies, and avows enmities to all that men have
been taught to respect, it is right to guage his
motives, and bring him to a lower level. He
wants the gift of reflection. If he is now arriv-
ing at a mental pause in his career, he may pos-
sibly come through it, not only a more moderate
and a truer politician, but a wiser and better
public man.

THE LATEST NEWS.

BY. BRITISH AND IRISH MAGNETIC .TELEGRAPH.]

FRANCE.

PARIS, Jan-. 9.
General Montauban will proceed to-morrow to
China via Suez.
The Moniteur publishes a translation of the
article on Count Walcwski's retirement, from a
London journal, which always passes at Paris
for the special organ of Lord Palmerston.
M. Thouvenel eft Constantinople on Friday,
and is expected at Paris about the 15th.

FRENCH FUNDS.

PARIS, Jan. 9.

12.5 P.M.—Rentes open 68 85.

2.5 P.M.—Variou s rumours current have pro-
duced uneasiness and caused Rentes to decline to
68.50.
- 3.35 P.3l.—A slight improvement was apparent
at the close of the Bourse. The last quotations of
Rentes being 68 5, a relapse.of 40c. since Satur-
day.

ITALY & THE CONGRESS.

PARIS,, Jan. 9.

The Patric of this evening gives a denial of
the report that the Pope had manifested an inten-
tion to leave Rome.
The Paris correspondent of the Times, writing
on Sunday night, says there are many indications
that the chances 9f the Congress meeting are of
the most shadowy kind.
The Opinione Nationale which is believed to
be not entirely uninitiated, says that if Italy de-
cided for the annexation and unification of the
North and Centre, England would gladly accept
the combination ; and France would do the same,
on the condition of Nice and Savoy being restores
to her.
The organ of the Ministerial party in Prussia
is still of opinion
,that the restoration of the
Dukes in Italy would have been the most
desirable solution; but gives up, the project as