The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-04-18 00:00:00

thing more than harmless or foolish pleasantry,
yet we may be allowed to use it as an argument
for the indulgence of a more national feeling in
dealing with -each other. Increased intercourse
with other nations and the softening, of island
prejudices may be left to work the cure of a vanity
which is indulged without a thought, and even
Without meaning..: But it is in estimating our
relations with, each other and our obligations
to the -whole that-the sentiment of nationality
means something usefu4 and something great.
Its true character is indeed displayed and
vindicated when national interests are threa-
tened by a foreign enemy ; but simply because
the feature that then gives it force is what
nioulds the only beneficial domestic policy:
In a great external danger which threatens
the safety of the whole, the doctrine of
national unity is forced upon the consciences of
a people, because they are then all made to suffer
and rejoice together. With regard to our conduct
among each other, then, the phrases " English,"
and " un-English," have a very decided meaning,
and supply a rule by which the trustworthiness
or untrustworthiness of public men can be tested.
We,—ourselves of the " labouring class," in the
truest sense of the word,—shall rejoice to see our
friends and allies, of what has been conven-
tionally termed the labouring class in a special
sense, admitted to the franchise. But on the eve
of their admission, it is on their own account as
well as ours, that we advise them to apply this
test to the professions of politicians and partisans.
The secret of our advice is, not that they may be
made allies of this party or that party, or put on
this ribbon or that ribbon, or get at, their tongues'
end any special formula or watch-word. Parties
in themselves are, to a certain extent, matters of
indifference. Perhaps there is no recognised
party in the State that a man may not belong
to, and still retain the sentiments of an English-
man. They are, at all events, all healthy safety-
valves in the commonwealth, and, on the whole,
efficient directives of public opinion. No man is
necessarily unfit to be _heard, because others-call
him a Whig or a Tory. To proscribe him in the

first instance on this simple Sonsideration, would
be intolerant. But there is one man who may be
at once justly proscribed as a false teacher, as a
treacherous guide, as unworthy to be listened to,
as in short—un-English. This is the pretended
patriot who teaches .us that classes exist in a
nation to prey .upon one another, and that their
only bond of relation is founded on cupidity and
selfishness. That the object of each class is to
make a clean sweep of its rivals, and that when
it can get everything into its own hands, it will
have nothing to do but reap and enjoy it It is

surely not too much to say, that to give any one
a claim to be heard, it is necessary he should at
least set out with this 'assumption, that the
nation is one body, and that its prosperity and
happiness mean the prosperity and happiness of
all the classes that compose it.

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THE VOTING IN NICE.
- PARIS, Tuesday,

The Moniteur of this morning gives the follow-
ing as the definitive result of the voting in the city
of Nice:—Yes, 6,810 ; No, 11.

SENTENCE ON GENERAL ORTEGA.
MADRID, April 16

It is asserted that the sentence of death against
General Ortega will be executed this evening.
Universal tranquility prevails.