The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-03-28 00:00:00

Savoy would lead a nation so warlike as France
to other demands of the same kind," how
important it is that we should cultivate, more
than has lately been done, a good understanding
with those Powers. When we find a Foreign
Minister all at once declaring to Parliament—as
Lord JOHN RUSSELL did the other night—that
whilst they wished to be on the most friendly
terms with France, they ought not to keep apart
from the other nations of Europe, but when
future occasions arose be ready to declare firmly
but moderately that the settlement and peace of
Europe were dear to this country, and could not
be preserved if they were liable to repeated viola-
tions, and the annexation of first one State and
then another ; and that the Great Powers must
be ready to respect the rights and limits of each
other, and endeavour to restore, not to disturb,
that commercial confidence which. was the result
of peace,. and ultimately formed the happiness
of nations,— when one hears language such
as this, we say, from a Foreign Minister who has
just been outwitted hy a Sovereign whom those
Great Powers themselves have all along regarded
with distrust, it is not unreasonable to conclude
that he and his colleagues have become sensible
that they have been in the wrong, and that their
li previons policy, therefore, must have been mis-
chievous in the highest degree.
It has never been maintained in these columns
that our Government had done wrong in not.
regarding the question of Savoy as one for a
hostile demonstration against France, No ; under
the circumstances it could be no eaSelS Celli at
present, whatever warlike yearnings it may
.threaten tq Minister to hereafter. As it has been
well observed, " Had Sardinia been despoiled
against her will, the laws to which all nations
owe their independent existence would have
been violated, and all nations would have been
bound to lend their aid to the victim against the
aggressor. But Sardinia consents to her own
spoliation, believing it to be for the good of Italy
that she should do so. She gives her ancient
domain, as she gave a princess of her house, to
purchase a great advantage• for the nation of
Which she is now the head. She immolates half
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a million of subjects, as she immolated a daugh-
ter, to. appease the powers of evil. We cannot
pretend to prevent her making the bargain she
thinks fit to make. We cannot even pretend to
say that the bargain she makes is not a good
one, or that she is not placed under a necessity
so overwhelming as to save her honour from the
stain which the abandonment of the very hearth
of her dynasty would otherwise bring upon it."
This is all true. But the bargain, whatever it
may be worth, has not either been made or
carried out in a manner creditable to either party.
The conduct of both, on the contrary, as Lord
JOHN RUSSELL is now constrained to acknow-
ledge, only gives reason, to England and to
Europe at lhrge, for . great distrust. " Constitu-
tional liberty has to deplore the annexation of
the people of Savoy, against their wishes, to
the domain of that tyranny which, under the
shifting phases.' of despotism, terrorism, and
imperialism, it seems to be the fate of France to
represent. But Constitutional liberty has at the
same time to rejoice over the accession of a great'
part, and the impending accession of the whole,
of Italy to the brighter and happier domain."
There will be this consolation, at any rate, should
such a hopeshe but realised,—though it remains
to be proved ; yet one cannot but be anxious and
apprehensive about any Constitutional liberty
With' which such a Potentate as Louis NAPOLEON
has had to do.
What England has most to regret, however, is
that a Ministry should have had its honour and
iiitereSts. in their hands, at. such a conjuncture.
which not only could not diScover, until almost
too late, that there was " reason for just distrust,"
but could be induced, by paltry considerations of
commercial gain, to give a too credulous ear to
him whose character, they ought to have known,
demanded, if not their " distrust," yet, certainly,
not their confidence, and least of all their fra-
ternisation and friendship. " When LOUIS
PHILIPPE played a similar game," as we see it

aptly and opportunely remarked, "to bring
about the Spanish marriages, no names were too
bad for the crime of the intriguing monarch, or
the credulity of those who had trusted his pro-
fessions. But Louts PHILIPPE was a vulgar
Constitutional King, and to tax him with perfidy,
and warn Ministers against a blind confidence in
his intentions, was perfectly safe, legitimate, and
inoffensive to the French nation. Louis NAPO-
LEON is a dazzling usurper, surrounded by a
grand halo of violence and blood. Say a word as
to the necessity of comparing his professions
with his interests, and regulating your dealings
with him for the future by your experience of
his past conduct, and you have the Minister down
upon you on the instant." So it has certainly
.Ileea I and the Premier of the day, having been
hospitably entertained, flattered, and caressed at
Compiegne, has acted, and brought his Adminis-
tration to act, very much under the same
dazzling influences. That England has suffered
thereby, and will yet suffer, can scarcely be
questioned now ; and her sufferings, be they in
what form they may, are among the penalties she
pays for the factious overthrow of Lord DERBY'S:
Government.

The King of Bavaria has arrived at Genoa, and taken
up his quarters at the Hotel des Bergues.
THE RING AND THE MAGISTRATES,—CaI Monday, at
the county petty sessions at Wolverhampton; some prize-
fighters and their friends appeared to answer peace
summonses obtainer against them by the police authori-
ties of Staffordshire. The defendants were Jos. Goss,
pugilist, Northampton; James Cooper alias Pagett,
pugilist, Wolverhanipton ; and six of their friends,
being seconders, or ring keepers. These were all
charged with being the principal actors in a prize fight,
which came off on Tuesday week, on a piece of common
land, called Tuck-hill, and situated in the parish of Bab-
hington. Six other persons were also summoned from
among the spectators, and charged with being aiders and
abettors. Police-constable Price, of Trysail, in Staf-
fordshire; deposed that an the day in question Cooper
and Goss, with their seconders and others, passed through
the village of Trysail. Having previously received
information that a fight was about to come off,
he, followed the party six miles to the place before-
mentioned, where he found that a ring had been made,
and. that 300 persons had assembled. The defendants
had taken up their positions in the ring; and he also
entered it, and charged the peace." Voices from the
crowd shouted out, " Kick the out," and the like ;
and Vaughan, one of the ring-keepers, told him it would
be better for him not to interfere, but if anyone assaulted
him (the policeman) he would take his part. Vaughan
added that he might take their names and summons
them if he liked, but they should have the fight. The
fight then was proceeded with, and eighteen rounds were
fought, Goss proving, the victor. The stakes were under-
stood to be £lO a side. The ground was partly in the
county of Salop and part in the county of Stafford. The
magistrates ordered the eight chief defendants to be
bound over, and to find a surety each for four months.
The summonses against the other defendants were dis-
missed on their paying costs.
SULLIEN--HIS EXTRAORDINARY DUEL-411111M was
first. noticed by the public as leader of the concerts at
the Xardin Tura at Paris, since built over. A five-story
house now stands where he once stood, as we have also
so often seen him in London, with primrose gloves and
shirt-cuffs turned up to the elbow, wielding the sceptre
of king of the orchestra. It was during his reign at the
Ardinz Turc that, according to M. Lecomte, the follow-
ing accident happened to him :—" He had an extra-
ordinary duel, unprecedented save amongst Ariosta's
fabulous heroes. , One of his musicians, who had been
a fencing-master in a regiment, had a dispute with 'him,
and sent him a challenge. Jullien asked a week to pre-
pare for the_ duel, and his request was granted. At the
end of that time the encounter took place with swords,
he received a furious thrust, which ran hithrsigobt
through the body, the hilt of the weapon actul
al y
resting
uponlet
npon the wound, and his antagonist having naturally
and in his
go his sword, 3-When rushed upon
which, having
turn dealt him a desperate blo!r ; after
erect,
thus 'revenged himself, he
daring to withdraw
th a sword
remained
sticking out of his back ! Nobody
to pluck it from the wound.
it, he himself had the energy
ivhich, wonderful to relate,
It had made itself 'a
passage
then
interfered with pions organs essential to life. A
month afterwAral, ."1"
had resumed his baton and
add, pallid and in elegiac attitudes,
be,once more presi
his primrose ea,.
aecover those concerts to which the
his adventure now attracted all Paris. The
fame of
circumstances which decided him to quit Paris were,
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like' life, everything in his e, singular and out of the
common way. Having some cause of complaint against
the authorities, he revenged himself by the composition
of an odd posting-bill, in which a comlaination of letters,
put in larger type than the others,,formed, when seen at
a distance, a word offensive to the police. He had to
run for it, and then it was he went toEngland,"