The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-04-13 00:00:00

ket at Jamaica, the 'West Indies appear to be in
an improving state. A large consignment of
" emigrants," as they:.are called, had reached
Demerara from Chi* and another cargo was
shortly expected. It is to be hoped that these
poor people have not' been, like the Coolies are
said too ,often to be,
.4/napped. Such labourers
are no doubt most urgently needed ; but they
must not be procured by foul means. The news
from the Pacific is still more satisfactory,—Chili
being quiet; business improving; the Copiapo
silver mines 'prosperous; the gold mines in Juca
acquiring importance ; a great discovery reported
on the frontiers of Bolivia and in the Andes ; and
peace completely re-established among the Indians
on the lower frontier of Aranco.

There have been some rather alarming distur-
bances on board the Edgar line-of-battle-ship at
Spithead. It appears that the marines first broke
out into insubordination on their being refused
leave of absence on Easter Monday ; and on the
next day some of the ship's company joined in
the mutiny, which of course grew worse. At
length five of the ringleaders, comprising two
marines, one marine artillery and two seamen,
were secured, and sent on board the Victory,
where it is supposed they will be tried for their
mutinous conduct. This decisive resistance ap-
pears to have suppressed the insubordination.
An able yet severe criticism of the policy of
the present Government is given in the leading
columns of the Morning Herald of yesterday,
bearing more particularly upon their conduct
towards France, as contrasted with that of Lord
Derby's Administration. Our perfect neutrality,
as respects the Italian schemes of the French
Emperor, was well sustained, it is shown by the
Earl of Malmesbury. But, it is forcibly asked,
"can it be said we are neutral now, when the
very terms Lord John Russell used in reference
to Italian affairs are cited by M. Thouvenel to
justify the annexation of Nice and Savoy ? Does
the Commercial Treaty look like neutrality, con-
nected as it necessarily must be with the recent
violation of the Treaty of Vienna by one of the
high contracting parties ? Is our prestige or our
influence on the Continent what it was during
the Administration of Lord Derby ? Is it not in
everybody's mouth abroad that the Emperor of
the French has made a catspaw of England. to
help-him to his rights of revendication?" These
are questions, the true answer to which cannot
but be most unfavourable to us as a nation ; and
this is one of the penalties that we are paying
for the success of the conspiracy that upset such
a Government as that of Lord Derby's—a Govern-
ment of which it is truly said, " they left our
commerce flourishing and our revenue rising, and
the English name respected abroad, and the
means of making that respect permanent at
home," commendation to which the Coalition
Cabinet can certainly prefer no claim whatever ;
nor do they seem likely ever to do so.
The Neapolitan insurrection has been a more
serious affair than was at first supposed ; but it
has, for the present at least, been put down.
The scene of severest conflict between the insur-
gents and the royal troops was at Palermo—at a
convent which the former got possession of, and
which they barricaded, and were enabled thereby
to resist for some time the attacks made upon
them by a regiment of the line, and by the royal
artillery. At length, however, they were beaten—
many of them shot, and others captured. There
has also been an outbreak at Messina, and another
iu the city of Naples—the latter of a very formid-
able character. The older provinces of Sicily
have•been undisturbed; and according to the last
accounts, the kingdom generally had
.become
tranquil. It is evident the attempt to create a
revolution has failed. If the Government are
wise they will now begin in earnest such a course
of reform as may take away all excuse for any
similar attempt being made again.
The rate of discount has been raised by the
Directors of the Bank of England per cent—
that is, from 41 to 5 per cent. This step was
anticipated at the Stock Exchange. Yet the
Funds experienced a slight decline, as soon as it
was announced to have taken place.
Austria, like Russia, declines all opposition to
the annexation of Savoy and Nice to France—on
this express condition, however, that it is to be
considered as the result of a cession freely made
by Piedmont, and not as the result of universal
suffrage. As to the neutrality of Switzerland,
it will require those guarantees to be maintained
by France which were provided for in the former
treaties.

In another column will be found a report o:
Mr. Bright's oration at Manchester last night.

THE important charitable institution, the opening
of which we report in our columns to-day, well
deserves a word or two of remark in this place.
An institution devoted to the reception, the care,
and the nurture of orphans,—of those who,
almost above all others, need the protecting and
fostering hand of charity, and excite our warm-
est human sympathies, no less than our heartiest
religious regards,—must possess a very peculiar
interest, if only on account of the distinctive
Christian character that it bears. The objects of
solicitude and succour for whom it expressly pro-
vides, are among the most interesting that can
appeal to our religious feelings. Pure religion
and undefile4, we are divinely assured, is to visit
the fatherless,—to visit that we may take care of
them, and thereby supply the parental protection
and support of which they have been bereaved.
In one of the most pitiful laments recorded by
Divine Wisdom for our instruction in righteous.-
ness, the complaint " we are orphans and father-
less" is put prominently forward as among the
severest of afaictions. And so undoubtedly it is.
It is "in their affliction," indeed, that we are
directed to 3/181L illustrative of
the purity, the reality of our religion. Among
the, most afflictive of the Divine judgments which
are pronounced in Holy Writ, is that which
sternly yet retributively decrees, " Your wives
shall we widows, and your children fatherless."
And when the worthiness of a blessing is set
forth, on the same inspired authority, for man's
merciful guidance and direction, it is divinely
.
declared, " When the ear heard me, then it
blessed me ; and when the eye saw me, it
gave witness to me ; because I delivered the
poor that cried, and the fatherless, and hint
that had none to kelp him." Yes—to be left
fatherless—to be so left in infancy—especially
in the ranlo of poverty and privation-4s to be
helpless indeed, and would often be to be utterly
hopeless too, but for the provision so mercifully
made in such cases by institutions like that to
which we now refer.

"Poor orphan in the wide world scattered
As budding branch rent from the native tree,
4.nd thrown forth until it be withered,"—
as withered it doubtless would too comwonly be,
did not asylums such as these receive it, and
provide for it, and nurture it. It were surely
and most emphatically to be a father to the
fatherless, thus to make provision for the poor
infant orphan. find. since such humanity and
such charity as this is the direct result of our
Christianity, most truly has it been said, that
"we Christians have certainly the best and the
holiest, the wisest and most reasonable religion
in the world."

This, then; is the grew source q all that
charity which displays itself in such institutions
as these. It is because we are a Christian people
that we 'nave in our midst, and on every hand,
and in sich variety of forms, so many striking
assurances of the great and consolatory truth,
that " chrrity never faileth," Nor will it ever
fail—bectuse it cannot fail—so long as p4ris-
tinily is permitted to exert its blessed influences
on society And when one thinjcs of this, hovy
much more laulentable 'tic, not all thP59 colMtPr:
acting intuenca appear with which the world
abounds—which resist and obstruct the religious
efforts tha; are being constantly
_made amongst
us ; ox wych even go to create an indifference to
them/ q.Pcl ;C) tie great objects P4ey nave in view,
11r.41 apd truly has it been declared, that
" public chtrities awl benevolent associations for
the gratuitcus relief of every species pr PP:PPR
ge peculiar to Christianity ; no other system of
civil ox religious policy has ever originated them;
they form its highest praise and characteristic
feature." Bitch a consideration as this—based as