Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-08-19 00:00:00

ecurnleviA tatt6.—nif; Bay.

At twelve o'clock, at the brokers' office, Apsley-buildings, Oldhall-
str.-et, GOO bales Gambler.—Jeffrrson an d aylur.
At twelve o'clock, at the broker's offi.le, 7. Eactsnre-bull 'ings, about
28 b,los Cotton, and a quantity of Pickings.—Haywuod and
Bl•Viccar.

At tweive o clock, at the brokers' office, 16. Exchange•bai?difizs, 1.250
ba. els Rosin, and 3'.10 tons Canapca'.hy Logw•ood.—J. H. Rayner
and Co.

At tw,lve o'clock, 49 cases East India Tiacal, and 40 tons Llmawood
—Cox Bri thers.

At the public saleroom, 20 tons Metal Bri.r.stone —Alex. S. Macrae.
At twelve o'eloc4, at the brokers' office, Oldhall-street, 4 ca'ks
Cream Tarta , and 200 nags Cutch —CII ,dstona and Sadeanrson.
At twelve o'clock, at tha broker's office, T aneaster-buildings, Tithe-
barn-street, 30 tons Loose Myrabo anl3,—Henry Wide.
At twelve oVock, at the broker's office, 4. Lancaster-buildings, Tithe-
barn-street, 214 bales Midder Roots.—John Davies and Co.
♦t twelve o'cl:ck at the pablie saleroom, Exchange-buildings, 20
csies Argob.—Fergusson, Pilians and Co.
At twelve o'clock, at the brokers' office, IS, TTackin's-hey, 240 tons
Logwood, and 1.5 cage Shnmac.—Balmain and Hill.
At twelve (Mee, at the public saleroom, Evchange-buildings, 10
tons Sapan Wood.—Whitaker, Wh tch,-ad and Co.

♦t twelve o'clock, at the broker's office, 1, Oldhall•street, 1.329
bags Sur ac.—N. Waterhouse and Sons.

At twelve o'c:ock, at the public saleroom, Exchange•buildirgs, a
quanti y of CcclMl24l and Ro)ti.—John Baron a d Son.
At twelve o'clo k. at the public sa eroom, Exchange-buildings, a
quantity of at O'P. Shelf, 4•gols, and Tart.ir —Bower and Slack.
At twelve o%lock, at the brokers' office, qweeting-street, 3) tons
Cattle Bones.—Aono'd, Leete, Itoscoe and Co.
Lt twelve o'..lock, at the broker's offi e 30a, Exchange-street Fast,
about 8 tons Camw,od, a.d 14 bags Ginger.— Percival, Campbell
and Co.

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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1857,

THE DAY'S NEWS.

From what took place in the House of Lords
last night, it would appear that the termination of
the session is not just so near as was expected.
Earl Granville said he was not prepared to state
that the House would *rise on Saturday next.
Lord St. Leonardn had complained that no time
would be left for that House to entertain the
amendments of the House of Commons to the
Divorce Bill. Lord Campbell. hoped the session
would not terminate ere the Bill in some form or
other became the law of the land. Several Bills
were forwarded a stage, and the House adjournec'.
The House of Comraons was the whole of the
morning sitting yesterday engaged on the Divorce
Bill. At clause 53; Sir W. Heethcoate, in the
absence of Mr. Gladstone, who was prevented from
attending by severe domestic affliction, proposed
an amendment, to the effect that the respective
parties in a divorce case would be allowed to marry
again, but would be obliged to have the marriage
celebrated before the register. The object was to
remove the compulsion from clergymen contrary
to their conscieneious scruples to re-marry divorced
persons. The Attorney-General objected to the
proposed amendment upon the ground that it would
place the ionocent, and guilty upon the same
footing, and would give a divorced man the capacity
to contract a marriage with a woman who did not
know his antecedents, and would thus be drawn
into concubinage. Ultimately the amendment was
withdrawn ; but a long discussion occurred on
another amendment ended in the Attorney-General
proposing an amendment, that priests or deacons
would not be liable to a pe.nalty if they refused to
marry any person who had been divorced on the
crime of adultery
The new committee on the Mersey Conservancy
(2nd) Bill was appointed. The gentlemen com-
posing it arc—Mr. J. C Ewart, Mr. Fitzroy, and
Mr. Kinglake.
The home news this morning is not of the least
importance. At the Middlesex sessions yesterday,
Clark, the man who was charged with debauching
and abducting a young Jewess, about fourteen
years of age, WAS found guilty, and sentenced to
twelve months' imprisonment. The half-yearly
meeting of the Liverpool United Gas Company
was held yesterdey, and a dividend at the rate of
10 per cent. per annum was declared, the Chair-
man announcing that ‘` white wages during the
past year or two had been greatly increased, and
raw material of almost every description had also
greatly gone up, that company was still able to
maintain its dividend, and to have a small sum
again for the reserve fund." We don't see, how-
ever, that the quality of theg as has improved.
In the Globe of last night there appears a cor-
respondence between Mr. Gladstone and Mr.
Edwin James, Q.C. Mr Gladstone, in the House
of Commons, had adverted, in no complimentary
terms, to the observations made by Mr. James, as
counsel for the plaintiff in an action for criminal
conversation. Mr James says—" The sentiment
which I intended to convey to the jury was, that a
man of the highest position and the most unsullied
honour might, from feelings of friendship, and from
the most sincere motives, lend his assistanc% to
another in procuring the evidence essential to
procure a separation from a wife who had dis-
honoured him, and vvhc, he believed, was no longer
worthy to bear his name." Mr. James suggests
that it is due both to himself and Mr. Glads .one
that the letter be read in the House of Commons.
Mr. Gladstone declines to read the letter before
the house, as he could not ask it to listen to a
document the most material part of which he could
read only to question r.nd contradict. So the
matter rests.
• The detailed news by the West India steamer is
of some interest. The health of the various
islands was rather satisfactory. At St. Thomas,
a fire of ra her an alarming character had broken
out, but owing to the prompt exertions of the
crews of two of the Royal mail steamers, it was
speedily subdued. His Excellency, Charles
Henry Darling, Esq , the new Governor of
Jamaica, had arrived at Kingston. He was received
with the 'lotions due to his exalted station, and
with the pleasurable feelings which ancient
recollections very generally excited thr..ughout the
community ; his Excellency having for many years
resided in the island-L--first, as Secretary to His
Excellency Sirl.7nil4.l Smith, "art., while in the ad-
ministration of this government, and subs- goently
as Secretary, temporarily, to Sir Charles Grey His
Excellency was sworn in on the 24th inst. with the
customary and his administration may
thus be sail to hasa. formally commenced. A large
anti infidential meeting has been held for the
purpose of adopting an address of tharks to the
Lieutenant-Governor, Major-General Bed, ,hho
had administered the government fora period of
fourteen months, which was unanimously agreed to.
The intelligence that the English government had
pledged itself to adopt more stringent measures to
put down the slave trade on the coast of Culai, hay
been received with the highest gratcation by
the whole of the inhab'tkrits of Jamaica, where
the effect of the impunity at present granted to
the traffic is, from the scanty nature of its free
population, more seriously felt, perhaps, than in
any other West Indian colony. •
We have dates from the republic of Salvador to
the 2ith of June, from which we learn that General
Barrios, late commander of the Salvadorian forces
in Nicaragua, made an unsuccessful attempt to get

up a rev:lution against the Government. The
cholera is raging in the State of Salvador, at
Cojutepeque, San Salvador, Sonsonati, and other
towns. At the end of June the deaths in Sonsonati
averaged sixteen a-day.

The surveys of the Pacific terminus of the
Honduras Railroad at LA Union are progressing
in a most satisfactory manner, and will soon be
completed.
From Chili our advices say that the political
trials that have been so long going on, are brought
to a close. Same of the offenders have been
condemned to death, but it is thought that
the Government will commute the sentence.
Among the Government measures proposed,
is a law regulating banking establishments,
and another permitting the alienation of entailed
estates The cost of constructing a dock at
Valparaiso has been estimated by Mr. Chevalier,
the engineer appointed by government to report
thereon, at $200,000, and hopes are entertained
that the undertaking will be carried out. A
subsidy of $40,000 per year for the service per-
formed by the P. S. N. Co. in keeping up the
monthly communication wilt Chiloe, and another
for the steam navigation of the river Bio Bio, has
been asked by government.
The El Peruano, the official paper of Peru, con-
tains the correspondence between the Secretary of
Foreign Affairs and H B. M.'s Charge d'Affairs in
Lima, relative to the seizure of the steamers of
war Loa and Turnbes by Admiral Bruce, on ac-
count of the attack on, and pillage of the British
steamer New Granada by the former vessel. The
Secretary demands that the steamers seized be
retained for the benefit of Castilla's party, which
the Charge refuses t.; comply with, on the grounds
that he would thus be violating his instructions,
by lending aid to one of the contending parties.
The upshot of the whole is, that the Turnbes has
been finally delivered over to the existing govern-
ment, which guarantees to rn:llte good the amount
of treasure ($32,000) pillaged from the New Grana-
da, if called upon to do so. The Loa had been set
at liberty some time previously.
There is not much news of importance from
the Continent this morning. The French mails
had not arrived last evening, so that we are not
in possession of any intelligence from that terri-
tory.

The Holstein Diet was opened on SlturAay.
The opening speech cf the Danish Commissioner
is described as conciliatory, but the Diet unani-
mously replied to it by electing, as its President,
the leader of the national opposition in the
country, and another well known orator of that
party, vice-president. Matters hero seem rapidly
verging to a crisis. •

There is a prospect that the AustriAn Govern-
ment, although reluctantly, will disown some of
the acts in which its representative at CJnstanti-
nonle, in connection with Lord Stratford de Red-
cliffe, Permitted himself to be eu2agad, in the
affair of the M oldavian elections.

SIR JAMES GRAHAM has out-heroded himself
in the shifting character of his public principles
and policy. His conduct on the Mersey Con-
servancy Bill proves that he is capable of
changing his tactics on any great and important
question, with a readiness and facility far beyond
that of any other member of the House of
Commons. Our readers are aware that Sir
JAMES GRAHAM was the chairman of the Select
Committee appointed by the House of Commons
to inquire into the preamble and provisions of
the Mersey Conservancy Bill. As the Bill stood
at the second reading in the Commons, it

contained a clause, the simple object of which
was to deprive the Corporation of Liverpool of
the Town Dues, without any compensation
or consideration whatever. From the very first,
Sir JAMES GRAHAM was in favour of this
outrageous proposal. He manifested this feeling
by his general remarks and bearing towards the
learned counsel who represented the Corporation
and the Dock Trustees. In fact, his whole
conduct was more like that of a paid advocate
for the promoters of the Bill, than the president
of a tribunal which was to judge and decide
between the contending parties. It was only
when compelled by the unanswerable facts and
figures which the counsel, opposing the Bill
laid before the Committee, and graphically
elucidated the monstrous injustice of taking
away the Town Dues, and the serious injury
which must be inflicted upon the inhabitants of
Liverpool, if compensation was not granted,
that the Right Honourable Baronet began to
listen to reason, and consent to something in
the way of an equivalent being paid to the
Corporation of Liverpool.
The nature of the compensation, and the
terms by which it was accompanied, ren-
dered the boon comparatively valueless, so
much so that the Corporation and Dock
authorities were no doubt animated to exclaim,
" Thank you for nothing." They certainly
felt it their duty to continue their opposition to the
measure, and for a number of days gave effective
battle before the Select Committee of the House
of Lords. Their efforts were not unsuccessful,
for we find that that committee rejected the Bill
as it was first laid before them ; but being
anxious that the matter in dispute should be
settled during the present session, they con-
sidered the clauses of the Bill seriatim, and made
such alterations in their respective provisions as
wculd be likely to meet the wishes of all the
parties both for and against the measure. In the
first instance the amendments introduced by their
Lordships was an augmentation of the com_i-
deration, for a surrender of the Town Dues, to
1,500,0001. In other respects the Bill left the
House of Lords in a much more favourable
condition towards Liverpool interests than it
was when sent up by the Commons.
On 11onday Sir J. GR kIIANI called the attention
of the House to the alterations made in the Bill
by the Select Committee of the House of Lords,
and stated that as the main amendment—an
interference with the amount of compensation—
involved a question of privilege, he was desirous
of giving way—conceding the amount named by
their Lordships' Committee, and, in fact, " eating
his own leek." As this could not be done
without a Select Committee inspecting- the
minutes of their Lordships' journals, he moved
that it be appointed. This was allowed, and at
six o'clock the Committee reported that further
proceedings in the Mersey Conservancy Bill be
adjourned for three months. Thus all the
exertions of the Great Western Railway Com-
pany, and their lavish expenditure of the share-