The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-04-14 00:00:00

OFF THE PORT.
Shakspeare.
SAILED.

April 10.
Annie, Piper Genoa
Berbice, lto,s Demerara
April 12

Theodore, Hughes Quebec
Amiesta, Krogh...Copenhagen
Vonvardts, Capse,

Minho (ss), Legg Oporto
Mat, llaltz Revel
Prosperous, Debriz,
St. Michael's
Horne, Ross Quebec
Jessie Miller, M`Callum,
New Richmond
Constellatioa, Muldner,

Santa Martha
Philadelphia, Winters,
Petersburg
_ _ _

Romeo, Ellwood,

NeWfoundland
Diana, Mos.op, Newfoundland
Village Girl, Douglas,
Newfoundland
E. von Flotow, Ahrens.
. .

Nev York

Fredericka
Hamburg Packet, Thorsen,

Thames, Barrett,
. Newfoundland
Zouave, Wansford,
Newfoundland
Fronkje, Koope Danzic
Newcastle, Harrison Corfu
M. J. Harryman, Bray Cuba
Effingham, Tennison...Qhebec
Nubia, Large Quebec
Equity, Hatfield Quebec
Goodspeed, Snowdon,Nem York
Elide, Meebrodt • • Memel
Coronella, Dennis ...Marseilles
Nciens, Brankharst,
Hamerfeldt
Arizona, Robinson, Baltimore
Queen Mab, Glendenning,
Singapore
DOnegai,
Newfoundland

Petersburg
Her. Gerhardus Marva
Briard, Weary.... Cape Breton
April 13.

Alice (ss), Henderson,
Teneriffe
Elizabeth, M'Cormiok ...Riga
colon, Smith Halifax
Nuevo Eseymrio, Vicusich,
Odessa
City of Manchester, King,
• Sydney
Frank Hayne, Randell,
Philadelphia
Hutton Chayter (ss), Simpson,
Barcelona

Netherton, Eales,
Newfoundland,
Markwell, P-eFout...Perca Bay
Ceylon, Harley Bathurst
FOREIGN PORTS.
Armais, hence at Payta.
Queen Hortense, Cochran, from Valparaiso at Iquique, a;gl
sailed for Mepillones and Liverpool.
Guatemala Packet, Warwick, from Valparaiso at Iquique,
and sailed for Pisagua and Liverpool.
Brechin Castle, from Valparaiso at Iquique.
Alice, Evanson, hence at Barbadoes.
Lord Elgin, and Aurora, Jeffreys, both hence at Demerara.
Bolivia, Johnson; and John Norman, Bond, both from Val-
paraiso at Iquique.
Parana, Scott, from Callao at Iquique.
Ann Nelson, Gilks, from Trinidad. at Belize, and sailed for
Gulf of Dolce.
Adam .Carr, Forsyth, from Cameroons off St. Thomas, and
sailed for Belize.
John Picle, Whiteway, from Coquimbo at Iquique.
Persian, Savage, from Men at Barbadoes.
Chapman, from Pisagua at Iquique.
Mary Marsden, Williams, hence at Port-au-Prince.
Martin Luther, hence at Kingston, Jamaica.
Eva, Erezuma, hence at St. Jago de Cuba.
Jacobina, Logger, hence at Puerto Cabello.
Endymion, Travonir, and Hippolyta, Hounsell, both hence
at Singapore.
Ceylon, Stewart, from Bombay at Hong Kong. i
Mayola, from Glasgow at Singapore.
Content, bence at Valparaiso.
Leander, hence at Maranham.
Kossuth, Jones, from Hong Kong at Singapore, and sailed
for Bombay. .
Glengariff, Webster, from Shanghai at Singapore.
Martha and Jacobs, Vries,lience at Batavia. _ _ _

Carthage (se), from Calcutta at Singapore, and sailed on her
return March 2.
Lochlomond, Morrison, from Hong Kong at Singapore.
Matilda, Stevenson, from Melbourne at Callao, and sailed for
Chinchas.
William Jackson, Lewin, from Grangemouth at Callao.
Crusader, from Bremen at Bahia.
Edward Herbert, Kite, hence at Callao.
Rhea Sylvia, Evans, from Melbourne at Callao, and sailed
for Chinchas.

Spray of the Ocean, from Shanghai at London.
Maggie, hence at Gibraltar.
Malakoff, Ilatterick, from Sydney at Callao, and sailed for
Chinchas.
Iskendria, from Penang at Calcutta.
Collingwood, from Shanghai at Foo-chow.
Speenlant, Versieh, hence at Laguayra, and sailed for Puerto
Cabello.
Mornihg Light, Gillies ; Alice Walton, Holmes; Countess of
Fife, Hollis; Jehu, Liddle ; Winifred, Arnold; and Nil Des-
perandum, all six from Chinchas at Callao, and sailed for
Queenstown.
Clara, Martin, from London at Calcutta.
Juverna, from Hong Kong at Foo-chow.
Trimountain, Field, hence at Madras.
Armenian (ss), from Hong Kong at Calcutta.
Contest, Steele, from .Kanawanga at Shanghai.
Trafalgar, Taylor, from Cocandia at Madras.
Orontes (ss), Watson, from Malta afAlexandria.
Leichardt, Barrett, hence at Anjer for Singapore.
Arno (as). Bain, from Alexandretta at Alexandria.
Blackkurn, from Melbourne at Calcutta. -
MBride of the Seas, Donald, from Shanghai, and Myrtle, Mur-
due, from Whampoa, both at Anjer for London.

• SPOKEN°.
Henry, hence for Quebec, off Old Head of Kinsale.
Matilda,- hence for New Yok, off Old Head of Kinsale.
Aldanah, New Orleans for Liverpool, March 15 23 N... 80 W.
Electric, hence for Shanghai, Feb. 26 -N...22 W.
Kearsarge, hence, March 21 '34 N... 74 W.
Nova Scotian (,$), (supposed,) hence 49 N.. .23 W.
Resolute, Galveston for Liverpool. March 12 28 N... 90 W.
WestAeland, N. Orleans for Liverpool, March 18 25 N... 90 W.

OUTPORTS.
Milano, hence off Penzance.

Maria y Ignacio, from Matanzas off Queenstown.
DEAL, April 13.---Arrived and Passed : Mary Ann, for Sieara
Leone; Asiatic, from London to Bombay; Eclipse, St. Lucia
to Londo ; Ludwig Heyn, London to Sydney; Ocean Eagle,
London to Port Phillip; Frolic, London to Carthagena ; Vilhalla,
London to Pugwash ; Morning Star, London to Antigua ;
Mystery, London to Dominica; H. Bellrnont, London to Algoa
Bay; Malakoff, for Kurrachee ; Hope, for Quebec ; Wizard
King, for Bombay; Lrmuela. for Madras.
GRXVE:END, April 13.---Arrived Pelcana, from Antigua ;
Sea Quecn, Singapsre ; Spray of the Ocean, Shanghai; Martha
Pope, Port-au-Prince; Eskdale, Mauritius; Solid, Frederick-
.stadt;_Albert Frederick, St. Ilbes ; Triton, Krageroc ; De
Beurs, Seville.- Sailed: Queen of the Seas, for Bombay; Heren,
Trinidad:
FALMOUTH; April 13.---Arrived ; Daniel Dyer, Parnell, from
Lagos; Percy, Donkin, Odessa; Horacio, Basarorda, Pcrto
Rico ; Number One, Wlntosh, Ibrail. • -- •
QUEENSTOWN, April 13.---Arrived: City of Baltimore (ss),
from Liverpool for New York, and proceeded; Australasian,
Portland and proceedad; John 0. Baker, Mobile. Off: Peter
Maxwell, from Callae, went to Liverpool ; Telegraph, Liver-
pool; Hindos, Monte Video, went to Bristol. Sailed : Kersevin,
for Onatham ; Maratham, Quebec.,
BELFAST, April 13.---Arriyad: Referee, from Bordeaux;
Catherine, Bayonne.- •Sailed :-S!cters; for Plymonth-:-
Gitzei,ocx., April 13:,4-irrived : Volunteer, from. Hove ;
Sayuni, St. Kitts. Sailed ; Compromise, for New York ;
Stodacora, Quebec ; Mitten, rieton, N.S.
- - DIARITIME EXTRACT.
•
• • • Littr.peer,, April 13.

Tke Westbourne, M'Naught, hence at Belize, with several
packages of cargo damaged, having experienced heavy
weather.
The Catherina, Bakker, from Maroini at Falmouth, with loss
of skylight, companion, bulwarks, compasses and wheel broken,
and two men washed overboard, having been struck by a heavy
sea March 31, in lat. 45 30 N., lon. 24 15 W.l
SCILLY, April 11 : The Jessie Banfleld, from Liverpool for
Palermo, which put in here leaky 7th inst., will have to d's-
charge most of her cargo, a portion of it (iron) being damaged.

SHIPS INTENDING TO SAIL FROM LIVERPOOL
FOR THE PRINCIPAL PORTS THIS MONTH.
Destination. Ship's Name. To Sail.
ArerRALIA : 1860.
Melbourne and Geelong
Melbourne, Geelong, an
Auckland

;Gosport

.Commodore Perry „ 20.
Fredk. Gebhard „ 25.
Samaritan ..May 1.
Saldanah
,Great Tasmania ...May 2.

Sydney ....
EAST INDIES

Bombay

.Mutlah April 14.
.Havelock „ 23.
.Maha Ranee
William Melhuish „ 23.
British Banner
.Medora „ 22.
.Primera de Espana „ 20.
.Valdivia ,; 23.
.Kate Carni; „ 23.
.Betsy

I, •
Calcutta.

Ceylon
Sincapore
Manilla
Bong Kong and Whampoa
Slanghac
Algoa Bay
UNITED STATER :
New York

.Africa (s)
.Vigo (es)
5
.0 of Washington ss „ , .
_Asia (s) .
_lsaac Webb
_Dreadnought
_Princeton
..W. S. Lindsay it 20.
_Europa (*)
..Argo
9, 15.
~
..Valentia
_Westmoreland „ 25.
..Vanguard
PI 15.
..Jane Henderson
..Borneo

ft
.1,

Haliet'ax and Boston
Boston

Philadelphia,
New Orleans
Baltimore

Nottril'AmEatcA :
Canada, via Portland

.North Briton (es) „
.Steamer (es) „ 25.
,Allan a Dale „ 15.
Solon
20.

Quebec
Halifax, U.
SOUTH AMERICA
Bahia
Pernambuco

.Castor „ 21.
Belle
~ 15.
.Atrevida
.David Harrison „ 16.
.Senator ,, 21.
:Mary Weir
.Florist
lb 18.
.Tacnal9.
.Black Prince

Rio de Janeiro,
0,

Monte Video and Buenos Ay]
Valparaiso

WENT INDIES:
Barbadoes...

...Rose
...Inca
...Johann
...Parker
..Morga

King'slon, Jamaica
Demerara
Havanna

21.

2S.

MEDITERRANEAN .
Alexandria, Beirout. and
Alexandretta Euphrates (es) ,, 19.
Palermo, Messina, Corfu, An-
cona, and Trieste Steamer ll.l 25.
Santander, Bilboa, and San •
Sebastian Nina (se)

THE DAY'S NEWS.

The declaration of General Garibaldi in the
Sardinian Parliament on Thursday, that the vote
in Nice, on the question of annexation to France,
will be effected under French pres Sure, and the
proposal to adjourn the voting in consequence,
must be very gall and wormwood to Louis
Napoleon. His Imperial Majesty's " French
pressure" is a process of wonderful effiCaCy. Why,
it is the very process to which he owes his
"election" to be the Emperor of the French

The French Emperor appears to be more and
more anxious that he should be understood just as
he wishes to be understood, and not as the case
itself points out, with respect to his conduct in
the Savoy affair, and more particularly as it bears
upon the neutrality of Switzerland. He is about
to address a memorandum to the Powers who
signed the final act of Vienna, in order to show
that if there ever was an intention to menace
Switzerland, the treaties of 1815 would not stand
in the way, since the military road from France
to Germany, through Switzerland, no longer
exists,—so that Switzerland, he would persuade
them, needs, in fact, no such guarantees ,of
neutrality now.
The Times devoted another leading article, yes-
terday, to a criticism of the Ministerial Reform
Bill. We have heard a great deal of its simpli-
city ; and " no one can deny," it is observed, " to
the Reform Bill of Lord John Russell the posses-
sion of the attribute of simplicity, though some
doubt may arise how far that simplicity consti-
tutes one of the leading merits of the measure."
And then it is shown how such a quality, in such a
case as that of our representative system, can
never be a leading merit in a bill of that kind, if
any merit at all. But what is chiefly and most
forcibly pointed out, and, by implication at least,
condemned, is its depriving the middle class of
that political power Which they have exercised
with results so eminently beneficial to the country ;
and it is significantly asked, " Will it not be
wise, before we establish a great gulf between
the aristocracy and the working classes by the
virtual elimination of that middle class which is
at present interposed so as to break the shock
between them,—would it not be wise to consider
Whether something cannot be done to bridge over
this gulf,—something which, if we may use the
expression, may break the fall of the franchise,
—something which may save this ancient and
established monarchy from the logical appli,
cation of the doctrine .of the supremacy of a.
mere numerical majority, something which, while
tolerant of, new elements, may prevent the total
extinction of the old ones ?" -
Later advices from Calcutta than those brought
by the mail, a few
.days since, represent Mr. Wil-
son's financial measures as being still' the chief
topic of interest. Under the new currency system,
it appears, the whole of India is to be divided into
currency circles ; and in each circle there will be
a Commissioner, charged with the duty of receiving
money and issuing notes for his circle. :The
amount of silver now in circulation is estimated
to amount to -£2,000,000 ; and of this it is anti-
cipated that two-thirds will be released by the
proposed paper currency—so that there is expected
to be a general cheapening of silver, followed by
a general rise in prices, till a reduction of specie,
which, for the first time in history, will begin to
be exported to Europe from India, checks that
operation, and gradually brings things round again.
"Truth," says an old proverb, " is to be taught
by an enemy." It is fair to derive instruction
even from an adversary. And the truth, the
instruction, that was taught by the Radical
Reform meeting at Manchester the other night,
ought to have its effect, not only in the Con-
servative ranks, but even with such of the
Liberals as do not wish to see the British
monarchy transformed into a democratic re-
public. It was not, as it would be seen by the
report we gave yesterday of the proceedings re-
ferred to, that merely an individual Radical or two
present made use of expressions which conveyed
that truth, and that they were themselves alone
responsible for it. Mr. John Bright. himself
uttered quite sufficient to show how he regards
our Ministerial Reform Bill as but a means to an
end, and this end his own republican transforma-
tion of our monarchical institutions—his yearned-
for transference of political power from the hands
of the wealthy, the intelligent, the reputable, and
the respectable of the people, to those of the
populace who have no such claims or qualifica-
tions for the prior possession, least of the
uncontrolled exercise of that power. But the
significant truth, the important instruction, to
which we now more particularly allude, was that -
which was conveyed in a resolution unanimously
adopted by the meeting at large, and which
declared,—" That this meeting of the Lancashire
Reformers' Union is of, opinion that no- measure
of Parliamentary Reform will be satisfactory W
the country less than that which will confer the

franchiseon every male person in boroughs rated
or liable terjae rated,..to the poor-.'Which will more
equally distribute tile memlfeKs it ,proportion to
population :and property, arid.wili, give to the
,voter
t4e protection of the ;" but " That
bill, now before the.Hotiseg Commons be
abiipted as :an
.instalutent Of the long-denied
rikhts'of the people." Only, 'an instalment,
yet one thaewill advance theiraequisition, in due
time, of all the rest—householci suffrage, a demo-
cratic distribution of members, and the ballot ;
all, in short, that is wanted to secure the
ascendancy of the democracy of the country—
to swamp the property, the intelligence,
and the respectability of the nation by
an -itittridatlon from the lowest, the most
turbulent, and altogether the most dangerous
classes of the people. This, we say, is the
lesson. Not that we are taught it now for, the
first time—very far from it. But it was, on this
occasion, cenveyed under _circumstances of more
than ordinary importance, and had a significance
thereby imparted to 'it which ought to have the
effect of impressing it all the more deeply on the
constitutional mind of the country.
When Mr. John Bright, at the Radical meeting
at Manchester the day before yesterday, auda-
ciously declared that "all the honest and good
people of England were for confidence and peace
with France,"—that " there might be, and he
believed there was, a section of the English
oligarchy and many connected with the military
service's who wished a different policy and a
different result,"—his real meaning must be
ascertained by connecting those expres-
sions with his peace-at-any-price principles,
which he had just been exhibiting in a
denunciation of our naval and military arma-
ments—of the necessary expenditure for _ the
maintenance of our national defences—and of the
position we thereby took up as a proud and
independent kingdom. What he wants is, to
place Manchester—its politics and its trade—in
the ascendant in the realm of England,—to make
the democracy our sovereign lord, and Mammon
himself the god of our id.olatary. " Perish the
British Monarchy, perish our so-called glorious
Constitution," he naturally proclaims, " if only
trade's proud empire can be indefinitely ex-
tended, and Manchester made the great focus of
all our national principles, and all our political
power." To this end it is that he is ready to
succumb to a Bonaparte, and to let England be
a province of France, so. that only Manchester
may be its capital city !
The power of France—or, rather, of its Imperial
ruler—over the destiny of Italy, is beginning to
be dreaded, just in proportion as its reality
is beginning to be seen. This new Italian
kingdom, in fact, is already in the hands
of France. The Sardinian Premier would
prevent its continuing so, if he could ; but, as one
writing on, the spot only too truly says, " Cavour's
policy finds no support beyond the Alps, except
in England—a Power that shrinks from active
interference in continental matters," adding,
that " were anything like political wisdom pre-
siding over the councils of the European. Powers,
it might perhaps not be impossible to induce, if
not Cavour, at least some other Sardinian states-
man, to borrow a leaf out of the book of old Savoy
history, and bring this kingdom to join"the array
of a European coalition against France." Instead
of this, however, the policy of Lord Palmerston's
Cabinet is rather to set the other Great Powers
of Europe against us, and render any such "Euro-
pean coalition" impossible. Yet such an array
must be brought to bear, sooner or later, against
the ambitious and aggressive spirit of the present
autocratic head of the French empire, if Europe
is to be spared the curse of future wars and
devastations.

THE press in France is a very different thing indeed
from the press in England. -In our case there is
'that " liberty of the press" which is thought by
freemen to be " like the air we breathe, if we
have it not we die." In theirs, it is not a " liberty
of the press" at all, but only a slavery of it,—a
press enslaved and shackled by the powers that
be, and not merely prohibited from saying any-
thing, however just or true, or however conducive
to the public interests, that may be disagreeable
or inconvenient to those arbitrary power* but
ever and anon obliged to say what is unjust and
untrue, for the promotion of their own particular
advantage, or for the furtherance of-their own
peculiar devices. Here, in England, the press
can pursue its course wholly independent off-All
Government influences,—except, of course, when
it happens to be, of its own free will and accord,
in the interest of the political party to which the
Government belongs. In such a case, the press
will serve the Government—will be its organ and
its advocate—will even do its bidding, provided
it be right to do it ; but not ,upon compul-
sion—pot as the fettered slave, but only as
the free and unshackled defender of its
policy and supporter of its cause. The press
with us, therefore, stands upon its own merits.
No portion of it is in the hands of the- Govern-
ment, to be employed by it to serve its own sinis-
ter ends, in its own unscrupulous way, at its own
arbitrary dictation, and under its own tyrannical
control. But not so in France. Under the Napo-
leonic regime, it is just the very reverse of this.
The Imperial Government would fain persuale
us, indeed, now and then, that there is a liberty
of the press,—but it is a -very odd, one-sided sort
of liberty ; it is just an illustration, in fact, of-that
partiality to ourselves which is seen in such a
variety of instances in the world—in morals as
well as in politics. It is the remark of Dr. JOHN-
SON, that " the liberty of the press is a blessing,
when we are inclined to write against others, and
a calamity when we find ourselves overborne by
the multitude of our assailants : as the power of
the Crown is always thought too great-by those
who suffer through its influence, and too little by
those. in whose favour it is exerted." This is very
much the fact of the matter with Lotus NAPO-
LEON' and.ltis "liberty of the press." And when,
therefore, the Napoleonic liberty was 'charac-
teristieally ,exemplified the other day by two
of the Paris papers-7-all of which, be it remem-
bered; exist only by.lmperial sufferance, to speak
only to gratit, the Imperial will=-when" fl y
uttered audacious accusations against England, of
having fomented the recent insurrection in Spain
—" the only reason," as was observed by one of
our metropolitan contemporaries, " why we took
any notice of accusations condemned by their
intrinsic absurdity was that the Patrie and the
Pays are known to express the opinions Of the
French Government." Just so. It is thus that
importance occasionally attaches to the rankest
and the most violent absurdities. -But, as our
contemporary eontinues, " a few days elapsed, and
we honestly confess to a considerable amount of
surprise at learning that these two journals had
been compelled by the Government to insert a
few words of undeniable :retractation. It was,
indeed, most fitting that the Minister who had
not refused his sanction to a gross calumny
against a friendly ally should be made the
instrument of his own discomfiture." All this
comes, then, of the public press of a country
being under the despotic sway of an
absolute and arbitrary Government, which
thereby makes itself responsible for whatever
mischief the press may do, and must therefore
be under the continual necessity of contradicting
its own mis-statements. and refuting its own
calumnies. It was thus fitting, however reproach-
ful it might seem, to remind the French Empef_ or
and his counsellors, " that if in this free country
there are newspapers which transgress the bounds
of courtesy, and indulge in language only too
deserving of censure, no blame can attach to the
Government,"—and that "A is only when the
control of the Home
press is under the direct con
becomes an
Minister- that a false accusationretractittion or an
official crime, demanding a
apology."
Now
if the Anglo-French alliance is to be
maintained in its integrity, such a practice as
this with the public press of the Empire must be
given.up. It is-a practice—and involves a princi-
ple—that is pregnant with mischief, and one that
is only too truly described when it is said of it, that
" it is certain that professions of desire to be at

peace and to' restore confidence to Europe will
weigh but lightly in the balance against it."

But the fact is—and it is ono full of alarm for
the peace of Europe—that the French Emperor
thinks he may do whatever he likes in the pursu-
ance of his own peculiar and interested purposes.
He is not to be restrained by any ordinary, how-
ever necessary, rules of action. He has no
scruples about inconsistencies, however impudent
or outrageous—no concern about violations of
laws, or vows, or treaties. Something, therefore,
must be done to check such a course as this,
fraught as it is with danger to the public peace
of the European nations. And, as another of our
able contemporaries put the case the other day,

"What is now to be done is nothing injurious to
the independence, nothing offensive to the honour
of France, nothing but what may be avowed in
the face of day, and published, if the French
Government pleases, in the 3lcniteur. We are
going to provide that France, as well as the other
nations, shall be under, and not above, the law.
A swarm of sophists have laboured, in prose and
verse, to indoctrinate her with the belief that for
her there is no law. They have taught her that
all her lusts are holy, that wrong is no wrong
when it tends to her aggrandisement, that injus-
tice and rapine committed by her are civilisa-
tion,' and that she alone, of all the nations, is not
punishable for her crimes. An effort is about

to be made to save the rights and happiness of
Europe from the consequences of her delusion."
By whom such an effort is to be made deponent
saith not. We suppose by the Great Powers
in Congress assembled. In such a movement,
England ought by right to take the lead. But
while England's conduct in foreign affairs is
directed by such a politician as Lord JOHN
RUSSELL, aided and abetted by Mr. COBDEN,
and counselled and 'controlled by Mr. BRIGHT,
it is not to be expected that, if she now could,
she now would, do anything of the kind. But,
at all hazards, it must be seen to, that Louis
NAPOLEON is carefully watched. And there is
not one of the Powers of Europe but may 'find
an opportunity to detect and to discomfit him, if
only there be a united determination to resist the
common enemy, and show to him, and to the
World, in the emphatic words of one of the
quaintest of our' old dramatic poets,—
"Though with rhetoric flourishes,
You strive to gild a rotten cause, the touch'
Of reason, fortified by truth, delivered
From an unlettered tongue shall show it dust,
And so to be contemned."