The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-09-26 00:00:00

small powers and truckling to great powers; to
diplomatic pugnacity and want •of insight into
the real course of the world,—to having cast a
nation, whose character and depend on
her fidelity to the cause of liberty, at the feet
of a tyrant red-handed from the destruction of
free institutions, and introduced this tyrant in
triumph to the friendship of our Queer!, and
to the highest order of English chivalry,—to
having on the most vital and critical occasions
betrayed not only a miserable lack of sagacity,
but a miserable indifference to honour,—to having
witnessed, without painful feelings, acts of re-
iterated perjury, outrageous license, cold-blooded
butchery of innocent people—and immediately
afterwards to have fraternised with the perpetra-
tors ;—what is there, we ask, in any man that
would operate as a set-off against such bad quali-
fications and give him pre-eminently and indispu-
tably the right to dictate his will to the people
of England ?

Let not our readers start back at our question.
At first sight so black a catalogue of deficien-
cies and transgressions may seem unpardonable,
and enough to override .and bury any par-
ticle of good that possibly could be found
in the same wicked and unprincipled individual.
But the Saturday Review gives an answer to the
question, in a specific manner. The only qualifi-.
cations requisite to make even such a man all-
Powerful in England at this moment are as fol-
low :—Cleverness, shrewdness, a strong heart, a
vigorous constitution, elasticity at seventy-four
years of age, Parliamentary experience and tact,
European position, some knowledge of European
courts and parties, Conservativism under the
guise of Liberalism, and a worse than tardy sus-
picion of Lot's NAPOLEON-! These are the only
good points which can be set off against so many
bad ones. These characteristics, good and bad,
taken together according to the Reviewer, make
up the character of the very fortunate individual
Who, at present, is all powerful in England !
Such an one the English nation has unanimously
chosen to be its Dictator, whose great duty it is to
See 21e quid detrimenti respublica capiat— that
the State paises safe through a great crisis. So
devoted is the country to his supremacy, and so
confiding ifthis magical power to protect it, that
it cares not a 'pin for the absolute failure
of his measures, provided he keeps office. There
may be superior men about him, but they may
all go to the right about any day they like, with-
out in the least injuring the power of this resus-
citation of an old Roman Dictator. We might
Weep aside the Constitution and suspend the
laws, still all.would be well with us while this
greatland good man continues to hold the helm
of State. Perish the ordinary trammels of party
and the ordinary liabilities of party government,
second DANIEL has come to judgment!

. .
We have not yet mentioned the. name of this great
Conqueror ; and we confess to a feeling of reluc-
tance to break the charm. When we name Lord
PALMERSTON as the idol before whose polluted
shrine so much fulsome adulation has been spread
by the Saturday Review, some of our readers may
stare with incredulous amazement, while others
may roar with laughter at the absurdity of the
notion ; but we have no other alternative than to
state the fact. What although this septuagenarian
dictatorship ,has the disadvantage of belonging,
in all its ideas and sentiments, to a past genera-
tion ? What although the Dictator does not
understand the great moral forces which are
transmuting before our eyes the whole order of
the. civilised world? Does it matter that this
oracle does correspond to the epoch in which we
live ; or that, in this age of Free-trade and com-
mercial reciprocity, he is still dreaming of the
conquering and protectionist days of CHATHAM ?
Are we to grumble because his commercial
intrigue with the • Emperor, styled the French
Treaty, proves his. inadequacy to deal with so
selfish and subtle an ally ? With all his errors
and his shortcomings, and his want of principle
and astuteness, and his obsoleteness of ideas,
'What danger have we to apprehend from an old
age so blooming and vivacious as that of our
noble PREMIER ? Does not every instinct of our
nature call upon us, as a nation, to accept and
applaud Lorcl PALMERSTON'S temporary ascend-
ancy as the only possible saviour of the English
People ? .

It were only an insult to the common sense
and intelligence of our readers to attempt any
fierions refutation of these mendacious and even
self-contradietory statements of the Saturday
Review, in its most recent attempt to bolster up
this political wizard, whose fame and position are
based upon the shallowest and most apparent
tricks of jugglery. His temporary ascendency
as all the world knows, the result of
an organised hypocrisy and faetious coalition,
Which is, destined speedily to fall to pieces
from its own want of coherent power. If
there lives one man who, more than another,
is chargeable with the pressure of a great peril,
Which the people of England deeply feel, that
Mari is Lord PALMERSTON. If that be a neces-
sary quittificatiOn for the statesman who is to see
nz througfi the great crisis, then assuredly Lord
PALMERSTON i 4 most fit for the task. To some
readers this white-washing of Lord PALMERSTON
by the Saturday Iteriew,—which enjoys a repu-
tation for independent judgment and impar-
tiality,—may seem inexplicable. There is, how 7
ever, an easy explanation. Let, it be kept in
`clew that the. same writer has systematically
traduced Mr. DISRAELI, and not spared even
Mr. GLADSTONE --both rivals of the aged
Premier. laid PALMERSTON, like his friend
and host of Compeigue, does not despise the
influence of the press ;—vity, therefore, should
not he also have his organs, and why should
not the Saturday Review be one of them ? We
know no reason why it should not be so—only
let it be understood that, in political matters at
`fast, the Saturday Review is no longer entitled
to the aonourable position of an independent and
IrAPartial journal, having in these latter days
descended to the grade of a sycophantic follower
4nd interested worshipper of " the judicious
13ettleholder."

POREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRANCE.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, Sept. 25.

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The official Gazette of Turin contains a notification of
the blockade of t'he harbour and fortress of Ancona; and
the,_ Sardinian Government intimates at the same time
at whilst the war continues it will scrupulously observe
nthe principles of maritime law sanctioned by the Con-
gress of Paris, in its sitting of the 15th April, 1856.
According to. the Gazette of Milan, the Austrian
°overnment has interdicted the passage upon Austrian
territory of carriages and diligences, which were going
Itch% Milan to Mantua, by Cremona. ; and another
t'ornal states that for some days past workmen have
been engaged in forming a line of telegraph, which, tra-
Alling the Roman States, is to unite Civita Ducale
'with the Neapolitan lines. On the 24th the telegraph
was in operation as far as Macerata. These operations
are, conducted at the expense of the Sardinian Govern-
.lll.l and will doubtless be found an immense conve-

The siege of Ancona is being energetically carried on.
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-`; appears that General Fanti, the commander-in-chief
43` the Piedmontese troops in the Roman States, after
having effected a junction with the corps of General
eialdini on the day after the battle of Castelfidardo, has
!stablished his head-quarters at Loretta. He is to
direct horn thence his operations against Ancona, which
can hardly be expected to be long unsuccessful.
The intelligence received yesterday regarding the
a;mint
alleged to exist between Garibaldi and
;mint Cavour was of a more unfavourable character
uall it has yet been. To such a height is this
discord , said to have attained, that a corps of
4)000
men happening to be at present at Genoa,
'without their destination being known or declared, a
IsLePc_
on Tt was spread that the troops composing A were to
u:ireeted by a sudden movement the coast of Sicily,
In order to repeat there, against the Dictator personally,
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