The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-08-18 00:00:00

GAZETTE NEWS.

BOARD OF TTADE, Whitehall, August 17,1860,
French imperial decree authorises the im.

Portation of raw wool through any of the custom-
houses of the empire.
FOREIGN OFFICE, Aug. 15.—Mr. C. Drodersen
l' appointed Consul at Hong Kong for the Grand
Duke of Oldenburg.

COLLISION AT WATERFORD.
WATERFORD, Auguk 17.
The s.s. Malvina when proceeding down the
river this afternoon, for London, ran into the
?jig Hope, of New Ross, and did so much
‘!(age as to cause the Hope to sink imme-
diately ; captain and crew saved.

The harvest in Essex partially commenced on
Wednesday. The corn crop will be good, wheat
especially. A few hot days will quickly colour
and ripen the crops ; and in the courese%fi.next
Week the Ilarvest is likely to become gne

The following appeared in our later editions of
yesterday :

TURKEY.

CONSTANTINOPLE, August 11.

Advices from Damascus to the sth instant state
that Fuad Pacha had surrounded the Lebanon
with troops; and threatened fire and sword if the
Druse Sheikhs did not surrender in two days.
Twenty had already been taken, and nearly 800
other important arrests had been made. • One
thousand camel loads of plundered property had
been recovered. The Sultan visited Ihe Porte on
Thursday, and delivered a speech to the ministers,
expressing his resolution to punish the Syrian
offenders most severely, and also his intention of
reducing the vast list of sinecure high function-
aries, and effecting economy generally. The
paper money is to remain in circulation till July
next. The Sultan is about to address another
autograph letter to Queen Victoria and the
Emperor Napoleon, on the subject of Syria,
expressing his desire to have the sole punishment
of offences. The news of massacres at Baalbec
has been confirmed ; no details have yet been
received.

FORESTERS FETE AT THE CRYSTAL
PALACE.

The great annual excursion of the Foresters
will be held at the Crystal Palace on Tuesday
next. Last year 63,181 persons attended the
fr'te.

THE KENSINGTON 'RIDE.

The memorial to the Queen against the ride
contains upwards of 42,000 signatures. It is
more than half a mile long.

COMMERCIAL FAILURES.
A meeting was held yesterday of the creditors
of Messrs. Cornell and Sons, of Rochester, in the
shoe trade. The business of the firm has been
to export to Melbourne, and its . embarass-
ments have arisen from the depressed state of the
Australian markets. Their correspondents in
Australia, according to the last advices, had not
stopped:payment, and are not expected to do so.
Their assets are stated at £23,000, to meet £7,000
of colonial debts. It was finally agreed that the
meeting should be adjourned, to await the next
advices from Australia.
At a meeting of the creditors of Mr. Craft,
provision dealer, of Knightsbridge, it was re-
solved to accept 9s in the pound.
A meeting of the creditors of Mr. E. M.
Abbott, of the Bow Brewery, is called for Thurs-
day next.

The Gibraltar, 101 guns, was safely launched
yesterday at Devonuort.
The Right Hon. 13. Disraeli has left Grosvenor
Gate for Hughenden Manor, Bucks.
We ( Times) are requested to contradict the
statement that Dr. Vaughan has been appointed
to the Chancellorship of York Cathedral.
The marriage of Lady Alice Villiers, daughter
of the Earl Clarendon, with Lord Skelmersdale,
was solemnised yesterday.
The South German Gazette announces that the
King of Bavaria has conferred the Order of St.
Hubert on the Prussian Minister for Foreign
Affairs.
The Paris correspondent of the Alleinand
Zeituny, under date of the 10th inst., says :--The
Pope has written a most. melancholy letter to a
Cardinal in France. He looks upon'all as lost;
and although he is convinced that he shall die by
the bullet of an assassin, he declares he will quit
Rome under no condition, and at no price.

[MPERTAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS.-YESTERDAY.

Lord RFDESDALE, referring to the ncatiee given on the pre-
ceding evening in reference to the Savings' BAnks Bill, sug,
gested that the motion should be repealed iu which case he
should not oppose it, as the Government seemed to consider
the question one of urgency.
The Earl of Malmesbury and the Earl of Donoughmore made
the same request.
Earl GRANVILLE complained of the resolution of the house
limiting the time of the consideration of bills, which he sa:d,
had enabled Lord Monteagle to give the bill in question a fac-
tious opposition. However he was under the circumstances
willing to postpone his notice till Monday.
After some remarks from Lor4 Mouteagle,

The Duke of ARGYLL approved of the coarse now taken, as
the House of Commons would have looked upon the rejection
of the bill as a breach of privilege. . _

. -
The Earl of MALMESBURY called attention to the hardships
inflicted on the volunteers in sending them to great distances
to be inspected.
Earl de GREY said that the Government had no power,
except in cases of invasion, to send the volunteers anywhere.
Their movements were wholly guided by the wishes of the
several corps. The Government only appointed an officer to
direct their movements. _

The Local Government Supplemental Bill, the Gas Metro-
polis Bill, and the Consolidated Fund £11,003,000 Bill, were
read a third time and passed.
The Wine License (Ireland) Bill passed tlaough com-
mittee; and
• The house adjourned at half-past seven o'clock.

HOUSE OF COMMON S.—YESTERDAY.
At the morning sitting in Committee of Ways and Means,
The CRANCET.I.OR of the E.:CCM...EWER moved the following
resolutions c —Firstly : That towards making good the supply
granted to her Majesty, the Commissioners of her Majxceeestyd-
's
Treasury be authorised to raise any sum of money not e
ing £2,000,000 sterling, by the issue of Exchequer Bonds or Ex-
chequer Bills. Secondly: That the principal of all Exchquer
Bonds which may be so issued shall be paid off at par et the ex.
piration of any period not exceeding six years from the date of •
such bonds. Thirdly : That the interest of such Exchequer
Bonds shall be payable half-yearly, and shall be charged upon
and issued out of the Consolidated. Fund of .the United King-
dom, on the growing produce thereof. He explained that
£1,000,000 was demanded on account of the deficient harvest,
which would entail large expenses on the Government.
Mr. Henley and Mr. Willoughby complained that such a
resolution was brought forward without notice.
The resolution Was agreed to.
IR the evening, on the motion for adjournment till Monday,
Colonel Fe.exeit asked the Chief Secretary for Ireland if the
report is correct that the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland has
transferred to the Inspector-General of Constabulary the
appointment of one-third of Ito resident magistrates, to be
selected by him irons the force under his command ; and if so,
whether he could state the grounds on which sach * *ewe of
system has been made; and further inquired whether any
reports showing the necessity of such a proceeding, or any
communications from the Lord-Lieutenant to the Home- Office
respecting it, have been made, and- are to be laid before Par-
liament. He complained of the tendency of the Government,
to appoint the magistracy from the police.
Mr. SouLLY observed that the worst class from whom magis-
trates could be chosen was the police force. He took the oppor-
tunity of complaining of the conduct of the Irish newspapers
in regard to the Irish members. He wished to know Catholic if the
Government intended to appoint a paid Roman
minister as well as a Protestant one.
Mr. B. OSBORNE was glad that attention had beenrawn to,
the subject as the Irish police way, in anything but ad atisfac-
tory state. The police was utterly inefficient Pr the de Bile
of crime; they were neither soldiers nor policemen,
. whil
their military character deprived there of all the cinalielee
necessary for their office, that they were becoming mere mili-
tary every day, and it was high time that the subject was
enquired into.
Mr. Cannweee said that before 1836 all the magistrates
were chosen from the police force. By the act of 1837 the
appointments were thrown open. Lord Carlisle had adopted
the ecetree pa every third appointment of consulting the I
spector of Police; as to the force itself it was one of the most
efficient ia existence 'and would bear the most searching
enquiry. In reply to Mr. N. Scully, he said that there was no
intention of appointing e second conemieaiener.
Lord FenmoY, after a few words be reference to the came sub-
ject, called the attention of the Under Secretary of Seale for the
Colonies to the sacrifice of human life about to be made by the
present King of Dahomey in memory of his father, anti to ask
him whether he is prepared to cause some steps to be taken
With a view to averting this barbarous slaughter. He urged
the Government to interfere for the prevention of the horrible
sacrifice, for ;welch, he said, there was yet time. •
Mr. KINNAIRD asked whether anything would be done to
rescue from their nntortimtde position the women and children
who had been carried off in the lete Syrian outbreak ?
Mr. C. FoaTeseue said, that the eeport of the intended
sacrifice to the Kiug of Dahomey, Was unfortunately tco tfue.
The influence of England, great as it was on the coast, did not
extend inland ; but the King of Dahomey had been warned to
expect British resentment if he persisted in his intentions.
M rN" "
kwTßcomplained of the COUE9e taken by the
Government with respect to the Roman Catholic Charities
Bill.
Mr. HIJTT said, that though the agent of the Government in
respect at the bill, he was not responsible for its conduct.
Mr. H. B. Seeeeeicaze asked what steps had been taken by
the Government to inquire into the cause of the late explosion
at Dover.
Mr. S. HERBERT said that be
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vtohleurnet wereee
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hadno 144 yule inquiries, aof nd it
irielePeei ryfee: tpi °rue proper e‘irai instruction before
they had commenced their ball practice.
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structions had been sent'out to
niwtbchhlieena tgeto, conduct drbu ce t o f
conduct England
tbweitghavreeigmamrdeatot
kuoq, now that the system we had fLwsfyo:3riri:al'erahs.,:wwiCfrssww'YsreEreiriLr:e:;:rniaedlsainekpfnetoeodlnyrus the cause of establishing in its present
form. He wished to
estub-
lished had turned out so ill, whether we were peppered to take
any steps for a change.
Sir C. NAPIER admitted that when s
Egypt it was far better governed pupi
to liaYe
Syria w;.s tender the
forit4"eentdabi:
control of the Pasha cf
at present. Nothing could be worse than the conduct of the
Turks, as he knew from his oeYn experience their tyranny
el‘bt*ubtli4evilen this was
the Allied Powers on that occasion
began before he himself left the country. It was tehdeadubteyttoerf
Government in Syria. No doubt it was a dangerous thing to •
allow France to establish herself in Syria,
better than leaving the Syrians to the tender mercies of the
Turks, whose promises could not be depended upon for a
moment.
Lord PtLaERSTON explained the efforts which had been
made to bring the monarch of Dahomey to a
With regard to Syria, Lord Dufferin had instructions to e-
sense of humanity.
de-
mand the release of the women and children taken prisone
by the Druses. It was not true that the late events were due
to the tyranny of the Turks; on the contrary, they were due
that the British Government were responsible
to the want of authority on their part. He denied altogether
asters. He could not lay the instructions of Lord Dufferin
upon the table of the House. But one of them was ti inquire
into the beet mode of b • ringeng about a better administration
recurrence these lamentable
occurrences.

Colonel Dxcasom denied the authority of the published
papers that the Maronites were, as asserted, the first
aggressors. In reference to tne Irish conBtal?4l4Y .51!"im'
he admitted the efficiency of the police, but objected' to their
being made stipendiary magistrates.
Mr. EsMoND made some remarks upon the sagte subject.

The motion for adjournment till Monday was then negatived.
On the motion that the House go into committee of supply,
Mr. VAIIOE called attention to neglect of Irish business, and
failure of Irish bills, during the session.
After a few words of explanation from Mr. Cardwell,
Sir DE LACY gyAws commented upon the present arrange-
ments and organisation of the militia. He regretted the
determination of the Govern/neat If3a ,o allow the extension of
the Toluuteor rapvqielat t 9 Ireland.