The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-03-20 00:00:00

electors had not even the liberty to sell them-
selves." He admitted that there was no
demand for such a reform measure, and could ,
give no better account of the national indiffer-
ence, than by assailing his old friends—those
horrid Tories--not for opposing liiin, but for
allowing him to bellow in his most bucolic
strains unheeded. Like the traditional Irishman
at Donnybrook, who, lamenting the degeneracy
of modern society, shouted a general challenge that
some one might only tramp on the tails of his coat
and by such a truly Hibernian incentive to action
give Paddy an excuse for exercising his shillelagh,
Mr. Bright shouted out to the other side of the
house last night,—" Let the chiefs of the Tory
party now get up as they did in 1832, and
declare that there should be no Reform, and
there would very soon be whirlwind enough."
But it was of no use. Those provoking creatures
the Tories would not humour him ; and he was
left alone to vapour against the very ineanive of
which he is the leading supporter ;---and to utter
dark insinuations as to the future, as if deter-
mined, by foul or by fair means, to raise
the excitement he, So greatly desiderated.
" The 4tkevipp, could not remain perma-
nantlY NNIIM it was fixed by the bill,
and let them beware how they rejected a demand
which would only lend to a measure far less
palatable, and which would torn the calm tide
of public opinion into a tempest." Various
other members took Dart in the debate, which will
be, resumwd by Mr, Stansfield this evening. On
the, Savoy question, Lord John Russell again
entreated the indulgence of the Realise to forbear
from further demands for inforroation at the

present moment. Beforvo. the }louse wijow.rned,
some discussion too 13,l ace as to the calculations
on which tba Vlijuese rote wAs founded.

. . . . .
The EAropa: has brought itkur days later news
from the United Slkkle*i but there is nothing in it
of any p,ol4i.Mi importance, if we except the
anticipated rejection of the Treaty with Mexico
by the Senate, in which case Mr, Maclean, the
American Minister, would of course not return.

The troops were under opaers *om Washington
for the frontier of Wcas and Mexico, which would

seem to it-044w that they expected some further
hostility. in. those quarters. There arc, dates from
California to the 14th ultimo, hut their informa-
tion is unimportant. The had been an unusually
large 'number of arrivals ; and the dull state of
trade was attriWAted thereto. The Ruropa, which
was at Hatifax on the 10th,, heard nothing, it
appears, of any survivor* Aom the wreck of the

Hungarian.
Switzel•lall4 appears to have set an example,
in eanilectiou with the Savoy question, which
ought to make England blush. " The Swiss
Minister," we learn from Paris, "de2lined to

entertain an inducement of eortkin tariff advan-

Cages offered by Franee"---as, a sop for the viola-
tion of the rights of Swiss neutrality. It is an
" int:Ai-keel-tont of certain tariff advantages," as
we all know, which has enabled Louis Napoleon
to carry his annexation project into effect, with-
out any real opposition from England. They
talk of Tiassia, Austria, and Prussia " joining in
confederation to protest against it." But what
is the use of it now ? Besides, England has
got its "inducement," and ought, Louis Napoleon
doubtless thinks, to hold its tongue.
Austria, it appears, has /test no time in sending
a despatch to the Freuch Qovernment, declaring
that she will " pronounce herself "—as it is
expresseel,agaiust any violation of the rights of
Swiss neutrality As guaranteed by treaties. How
this will be found to bear upon the annexation of
Savoy remains to be seen. A deputation from
Savoy had yesterday an audience with the
Emperor on the same subject. But we suppose
that " pronouncing," or protesting, will be all
that either Power can have recourse to at
present.
It is ashes, we observe, "Is the danger of
Savoyard annexation to FranCe so great a matter
as to call for interference by the British Govern-
ment, or a result so serious as to jeopardise the
amalgamation of the Italian States ?" Undoubt-
edly, we do not hesitate to reply, it is such a
matter as this; and the aritish Government have
interfered with it, by strongly remonstrating, as
the B,Vi'‘ish Parliament has also interfered by
protesting against it,—with no available result,
however, in either case. The effect of the latter,
in fact, depended so much on the former, that no
other issue was likely to arise.. A remonstrance
accompanied by a Treaty, entered into for the
pii.rpose of " arawin,g closer the ties of friend-
ship," with the very Power whose predatory
designs were the subject of such remonstrance,
was something very like a farce. It may be all
very well to pretend—as indeed it is pretended--
that since the British jarliament " has already
approved of the principle that the Italians shall
be allowed to manage their own affairs, now
that arnalgania4on, the direct result of this
liberty, the.e.ontingent transfer of Savoy, with
the e.,onsent of the people most concerned, becomes
a matter. of comparatively trifling import." This
were a plausible, but a very superficial view of
the question; and one under which there can be
no security whatever for either the obligations of
treaties, or the limits of territories,
Victor Emmanuel has formally accepted the
vote of annexation from Tuscany,—" a manifesta-
tion of the rational will," as his Majesty expresses
it " So universal and so spontaneous, that it con-
firms to iurope, at a different time and under
altered conditions, the vote already expressed by
the national assemblies of Eruelia,' —and one
which " completes the proofs of the order, perse-
verance, patriotism, and wisdom, by which those
people have merited universal sympathy and
esteem." But, the King takes occasion to add,—
" In uniting to my ancient provinces, not only the
States of Modena and Varnia, but also the
Romagna, which has already separated itself from
the Papal Government, I do not intend to fail in
my deep devotedness to the Chief of the Church."
No; despite the threats and thunders of theVatioan,
his Majesty declares that he is "ready to, defend
the independence necessary tq the supreme minis-
ter of religion. the Pop-, to contribute to the
splegclotAr his court, anal to pay homage to his.
soyereigAtY• We do not suppose, however, that
all this will alter the case very much at Rome.
The Pope is diesppiled of an inportant portion of
his temporal clorninions--,to which his Holiness
doubtless thinks he has an infinitely more inde-
feasible right than Victor Emmanuel has to Pied-
mont,—and the defence of his independence, and
the maintenance of the splendour of his court,
as " the supreme minister of religion," are never,
in Papal estimation, to be considered as the qua',4
pro quo in such a matter of spoliation as his
Sardinian Majesty is regarded as being guilty of.
Some of qur Liheral contemporaries, we find,
art, disposed to attach importance to the state,
inent given yesterday, that a. French diplomatic
manifesto, will shortly appear, which all
design's ilpon the Rhine frontier will be expressly
citselairrieot and til@ inference repudiated that
because Frawr, fur.. special reasons now adds
aavciy and Nice to her empire. she, therefore,
means to set a precedent for claiming what are
called " natural frontiers." Had the Imperial
author of such a manifesto shown:himself worthy
of credit, there might have been some satisfaction
in it. But did he not, only a few month since,
disclaim having any intention to annex Savoy
and Nice; and did he not only a week or. two
since, cliflclairn any desire to do, so--,should he
think of it at all without consulting the Great
Powers ? Did he not, moreover, whilst Presi,
dent of the French Republic, disclaim any idea of
mounting the InAperial throne, and afterwards
violate his oath tq the Itepnblie, as well as ‘.‘ wade
through slaughter to the throne ?" 'the assur-
anee of any such a manifesto, we are persuaded,
will only he valid so long as it is quite convenient
for Louis Napoleon to observe it.
The Times, with reference to the new county
franchise of the Ministerial deform Bill, says
that " the point is nqt so much what these con-
stititeticies are as what, in course of time, they
may become,"—since " there is this distinction
between counties and boroughs—that the land in
the connties is in comparatively- few hands.'
And then the question is asked, c` Will this reduce,
tion ‘,4ne.hitae to give opportunities
tq nrop*.ors of extending their political power,
so that oil this side, at least, the Bill will be an
eminently Conservative measure ?" The answer
given to which is, " we cannot tell, we have no
Information, but we hope that on some of these
points at least our ignorance may be enlightened
in the course of the debate." But suppose the
Bill should be, in this respect, ". eminently
Conservative measure,"7-is it desirable, to, set
county against town and town against gouuty,
by having all kiound Conservatism, on one
aide, and all the rampant Radicalism on the
other ? Surely not,

WE have, so far, refrained from expatiating upon
the painful case of the suffering British soldiers,
brought home from India in the Tasmania to this
port. We have so refrained, because, without
disputing, in the main, the truth of the Raw.
men's statements as to their ilk treatment, they
were yet 'Eno f.T.pArtc.statements; and net only so,
but made by those who were smarting severely
under sufferings, some of which, it may not
improbably turn out, have been unavoidable,
under the circumstances, and others the effect of
the sufferers' own physical and moral condition.
The investigation which was opened by the
Coroner yesterday, will n nll probability bring
out the real. facts of the ease, One thing, how-
ever, has been known from the first,—and it was
most satisfactory to find it so,—that, as a Liver-
pool ship, the Tasmania was not to be held respon-
sible for what has unhappily occurred. The
vessel was chartered by the Indian Government,
and all the arrangements for the voyage were
made by their authority, and on their account.
The ship itself was found in all respeots, we
believe, capable of transporting a large body of
troops, Her capacities are large, her sea-