The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-09-17 00:00:00

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A parliamentary return issued on Saturday shows
that there were in the counties of England and Wales
169,010 persons assessed to the house duty in the year
ending April 5, 1859, at £2O and upwards; 118,711 at
£25 and upwards, and 92,027 at £3O and upwards.
The number of persons assessed to the income-tax in
respect of messuages and tenements under schedule A in
the parliamentary boroughs of England and Wales at
£8 and upwards was 795,185. The number of male
occupiers in those boroughs assessed to the poor at the
gross estimated rental of £8 and upwards was 675,455;
and the number of electors on the register for 1859-60,
448,981.

The order recently promulgated by Major-General
Eyre, directing the saluting of volunteer officers by
soldiers of the regular army, is a recognition in a trivial
point of an exceedingly important principle. The
relation in which the volunteer service, ranked as it

now must be as part of the permanent institutions of the
country, stands on the one hand to the general body of
citizens, and on the other to the purely military organisa-
tions, involves a good many questions of delicacy. The
recent order appears to place one of these upon a sound
basis. Soldiers are desired to acknowledge volunteers,
when under arms, as their fellow-soldiers, and to yield
to them the customary greeting with which armed par-

ties are received. They are Attu to salute officers of
Volunteers when in uniform. But they are not required
o salute such officers of volunteers when not in uniform,

although it is a rule that they shall salute officers of the
army, known to them, whether in uniform or not. The
'distinctiOO is perfectly reasonable.
In tie United Kingdom there are 646 savings banks,
'of which 320 are only open about two hours in the
week ; and as there are more than 2,200 post-offices at

which money orders are issued and paid, there is no

doubt but that if the plan proposed by a bill which
wassed through a committee of the House of Commons

in 1807, of making those post-masters receivers of

deposits, it would be the means of greatly facilitating

the investments of small deposits, in addition to which

the depositors would have the security of the Govern,
went ; and it has been truly said " That the inter•

ference of the Legislature in taking these institutions

under its protection must be highly advantageous to the
industrious classes, as well as to the public at large, is

evident at the first sight of our labouring population,

especially when it is considered that, in addition to the
positive advantages arising to the poor, whom it pro-
fessed to have principally in view, collateral benefits

are derived from the plan by no means immaterial.

Every person who has vested his savings in the
public funds, has a stake in the security of the

country, proportioned not merely to the sum total of those
savings, but to the value of that sum to himself, and
will be deterred from compassing the disturbance of his

native land by a personal motive, added to the influence

of duty. He will feel. the importance of public peace
and public credit with that strong conviction which

individual interests never fail to inspire ; and, in answer

to the objections of those who would be jealous of the
support thus obtained to the ruling powers, it should be

observed, that he who possesses property in a country
is not interested in the stability of the Administration

for the time being, but in the perpetual stability of

universal order and good government."

*** In consequence of Messrs. Hilton & Co.,
who have hitherto had charge of the delivery of
our paper, declining business, we have now
undertaken the performance of this duty by
hands in our own immediate employment. We
expect by this change to be able to effect a con-
siderable improvement in this department; but
as it involves many little difficulties before per-
fecting the system of delivery we desire to attain,
it is only reasonable to expect that some few
irregularities will occur before we are in a psi-
tion to accomplish all that we intend by this
change. We have, therefore, to beg of our Sub-
scribers some little indulgence for a few days
until we shall have been able to put, this branch
of the service into proper working order. In the
meantime, we shall feel obliged by our friends
and Subscribers informing us of any irregularities
that may arise in the delivery of their copies.

VOLUNTEER PRESS CORPS FOR
LIVERPOOL.

'THE Volunteer Movement, glorious and success-
ful beyond expectation, as it undoubtedly has
been, is still in its infancy and only developed
to a mere fractional part of what it is easily
susceptible. It is a duty incumbent upon all
classes of society and upon those engaged in
every department of trade to weigh well the
responsibility that lies upon them of doing all
that is in their power to forward this movement,
not merely by individual adhesion to the force,
but by suggesting and facilitating such arrange-
ments in their several spheres of business as shall
enable and even induce every competent man
within the range of their connection and in-
fluence practically to identify himself with the
Volunteers. Early closing and the Saturday
half-holiday have been pointed out with suffi-
cient frequency as eminently calculated to
afford the requisite opportunities for Volun-
teering. Perhaps the most successful steps
for organising corps have been those taken
here and in other parts in connection with
particular trades, businesses, and professions.
In this there is no undue or envious class feeling,
but simply an ordinary manifestation of that
natural instinct felt by all classes of the com-
munity more immediately to associate with their
equals in preference to appearing to intrude them-
selves among their superiors, or to seem to
patronise their inferiors in social status. The
esprit de corps which inspires every department
of active life is not to be ignored in connection
'with the augmentation of the Volunteer force.
Any company composed entirely of lawyers, of
merchants, of bankers, of engineers, of trades-
men, of forgemen, of public servants, or of any
other large section of the public entertaining a
community of sentiments and interests, will be
more united, spirited, energetic, and effective com-
Pony than one composed of a heterogenous conglo-
meration of atoms of indescribably varied charac-
ter. In advocating this view, let it not be supposed
that we wish to introduce any obnoxious class
feeling into this patriotic movement. With Lord
ELcno we should deprecate such a tendency as
one of the most wicked degeneracies to which it
could be subjected. It does not follow, however,
that because we prefer associating with our coin-
"- Peers, we entertain any improper feelings towards
others similarly disposed. Nothing of the sort.
We, shall all be happy to meet in battalion or
brigade movement with no other feeling than
that of honourable rivalry as to which company
shall most distinguish itself by hearty co-opera-
tion and military efficiency.
We do not at present propose, to specify all the
departments-of business in each of which a good
"Inpany might easily, and ought imperatively,
to be formed in addition to the present roll of
Volunteers. But there is one department of
business in which we ourselves are especially
interested, in connection with which we now
Propose that a company should be organised—we
'neat' the Press of Liverpool. " The Press-gang"
of the old
compulsory system we would supersede
b 37 a grand Volunteer " Press-gang," in the shape
of
Corps composed of men of all shades and
"greets connected with the Press of Liverpool—
" example which we should wish to see followed.
by gentlemen.Conriected with the Press in every
other large town, where such a proposition has

Buchanan has been to preserve amicable relations
between the two kindred peoples.
The island of Cuba, in spite of Spanish misrule, says
the Ion(lo;4 Amvicern, is one of the most prosperous
portions of the earth. Her present population is esti-
mated at 1,130,000, of which nearly 550,000 are white
inhabitants, 180,000 free coloured, 400,000 slaves, and
38,000 Asiatics and Indians. The sugar estates are
immensely productive. Twenty-three of the principal
plantations, comprising about 100,000 acres of land and
10,175 slaves, are valued at £3,000,000. These twenty-
three estates produced, in 1859, 235,000 boxes, the
worth of which was £4 each box, making in all £940,000.
There are 1,600 sugar plantations in Cuba, the exported
products of which amounted to about £10,000,000 per