The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-04-03 00:00:00

MARITIME EXTRACTS.

LIVERPOOL, April 2.
The America (rms), arrived here this morning, left Boston
March 21, and Halifax March 26.
BARSIOUTH, April 1: The Oberon, of Liverpool, on shore
derelict.

Luconia, Butler, from Savannah at Bermuda for Liverpool
leaky, and would partially discharge.
Miranda, from Pernambuco at Maranham, after being on
shore.

PLY3tOrTII, April 1 : The Havering, from London to Hong
Kong, which put into the Sound on Friday, parted from both,
anchors last evening, grounded on Batten Ledge, and bilged.
The cargo is being landed, and endeavours will be made to get
her off on the flood.

BOSTON, March 20 The Charles Merritt, Middlesex, and
Charles and Jane, were inside the bar of the Mississippi March
1; and the Frank Pearce and the India on the bar, all bound
out. On the same day there were twenty-one vessels inside
the bar of the Pas l'Outre, all bound out. The Hera is load-
ing, and will be ready for sea April 1.
KEY WEST, March 9 : The hull of the Chas. Crocker will be
sold to-morrow; the S. R. Mallory has 2,011 bales of the Chas.
Crocker's cargo, and the balance has been sold. March 10 :
The S. R. Mallory, for. Liverpool, is waiting for a crew from
Havannah.

NEW YORR, March 22 : The Australasian (es), sailed yester-
day for Liverpool, but was detained at the bar by a storm.
BOSTON, March 21: The Susan Emily, from Cardenas to New
Orleans, was in collision with the ship Shatumec, from Ne
Orleans to Liverpool, and the former is a total loss. The
Martha, from Charleston to Boston, was struck by lightning,
and burnt at sea, Feb. 13.

ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE.

BENEFICES AND APPOINTMENTS VACANT

DEANERY.
Ripon : val. £1,000: pat. the Crown : Very Rev. T. Gartner,
D.C.L., prom.

ARCHDEACONRY.
Winchester : val. £200: pat. Bishop of Winchester : Ven. J
C. Wigram, prom.

RECTORIES.

Avington, Hants : dio. Winchester : val. £265 with residence :
pat. Bishop of Winchester: Rev. C. S. Bonnett, dec.
Southampton, St. Mary : dio. Winchester : val. £1,600: pat.
Bishop of Winchester : Ven. J. C. Wigram, prom.
Trusley, Derbyshire : dio. Lichfield : val. £129 with residence :
pat. John Coke, Esq. : Rev. G. Boynton, prom.
Waulip, Leicestershire : dio. Peterborough : val. £336 with
residence : pat. Mr. G. J. Palmer : Rev. C. A. Palmer, dec.

Gin! Mtiin Uinta.

TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 1860

THE DAY'S NEWS.

In the House of Lords, last night, the Marquis
of Clanricarde, in moving for returns relating to
the numbers of electors, declaimed against the
Reform Bill of the Government as a pure mockery.
The Duke of Newcastle admitted that the bill
was a mild one. Lord Monteagle objected to the
clause giving Irish peers the right to sit for Irish
constituencies: The Income-tax Bill and the
Stamp Duties Bill were severally read a second
time.

In the House of Commons, the O'Conor Don
took his seat for Roscommon, introduced by Col.
French. Lord John Russell, on laying upon the
table papers referring to the late affairs in Italy,
said that the Government entertained a confident
hope that that important question would be seri-
ously examined, so as to lead to a result alike
satisfactory to the Swiss Federation, and to the
other Powers of Europe. Lord J. Russell then
proposed that, after the re-assembling of the
House, Government orders of the day
should have precedence on Thursdays. Seve-
ral protests were made against this proposition.
Sir M. Farquhar proposed to Lord J. Russell, as
the best means of expediting business, to throw
his little bill under the table, and there would
then be time enough for the Government to
transact their affairs. Sir G. Grey proposed to
add words to the motion, whereby Thursday
instead of Friday should be a Government night,
and Friday given to private members, and moved
an amendment to that effect. Mr. S. Estcourt
proposed that the whole subject should, after j
Easter, be referred to a select committee. The
House divided on the amendment, which was
agreed to by 150 to 126. The question was then
put with the additional words, to the effect that
on Thursdays Government orders of the day
should have precedence, and notices of motion
should-have preference on Fridays. The House
divided, when the motion was carried by 142 to
117. Lord Palmerston said that the second read-
ing of the Reform Bill would be taken on Monday,
the 23rd. Mr. Hennessy asked the Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs whether the Government
had advised Her Majesty to recognise the an-
nexation of Bologna, Tuscany, Modena, and
Parma to the kingdom of - Sardinia. Lord
John Russell said that they had felt no hesita-
tion in doing so. The House then went into
committee on the Customs Act. The Chancellor
of the Exchequer moved his amended resolution,
j complaining that the alteration would cause a
loss of £lOO,OOO on the £300,000 which he had
originally calculated from the new imports. On
the resolution imposing a charge on the ware-
' housing and removal of goods from bonded ware-
houses, Mr. Dalglish moved an amendment
that the charge be not levied upon removal.
Mr. J. Ewart seconded the amendment. The
amendment was negatived by 64 to 50.
The resolution was then agreed to, and the House
resumed. On the motion for the second reading
of the Wine License Bill, Mr. Crook moved an
amendment, that the bill be read a second time
that day six months. He opposed the bill strictly
on temperance grounds. Mr. Digby Seymour
seconded the amendment. Mr. Ker Seymer
defended the bill. Mr. Hardy opposed the bill.
On the motion of Mr. Ayrton, the debate was
adjourned till after Easter.
Lord Elgin sets out to-day, it is understood,
on his important mission to china. The Govern-
ment could scarcely have made a more judicious
choice of a Plenipotentiary for such an object as

ie gops to endeavour to accomplish.." The nation,"
.as the Times observes, " sends out:Lord Elgin to

do
.the nation's worli,,-46 open up. China to our
general commerce,-to obtain such wise and firm
stipulations that when the. MiiscoVite comes to
take the place of the Mongol our.interests may

still be secure,—.-and, lastly, to complete his work

so thoroughly that we may haye :no more China
wars." Such is his most important, and most
difficult mission ; and, should he succeed in it, he

will indeed have earned a full measure of his

country's gratitude. He will doubtless have
many difficulties to encounter in his work, yet
the leading journal thinks that perhaps he leaves
his greatest difficulties behind him. " Nobody
knows better what it is necessary that he should

do, but no one is more thoroughly aware what a
squadron of heavy hobbyhorse-riders will bear
down upon him if he should dare to do it,"—
meaning those who in Parliament, and at Exeter-

hall, will be ready to cry out against any vigorous
attempt to bring the Chinese to their senses.
But only let him successfully " do the nation's
work," as described above, and the nation will
support him, and constrain Parliament to do so
likewise.

The news by the American mail steamship
America, though not of much political importance
to us on this side of the Atlantic, yet is not. with-
out considerable general interest. The United
States Senate, though fighting shy of every pro-
posal for interfering with the " institution" of
slavery, has yet received with apparent compla-
cency a. Bill. providing for the construction of
fifty steamships to suppress the slave trade on
the African coast,—also a joint resolution, autho-

rising the President to negotiate with other
nations for the right of search within 200 miles

of the Western Coast of Africa,—and. likewise,
an order instructing the Judiciary Committee to

report a Bill substituting imprisonment for life
instead of death, in cases of man-stealing, and
applying the penalty to persons fitting out 'slave
ships, or having interest in them. These are
significant signs of the times. The accounts of
the silver Ore discoveries in California are more

and more promising. There are further reports
of horrible massacres of Indians,—it is said by
white men. Mexico continues an object of great

trouble and apprehension. The United States
Government would appear to be on the eve of
another conflict with its restless agitators, unless
they guaranteed full protection to the American
flag and property and citizens in Vera Cruz,
which Miramon was besieging with a formidable
force. A collision had already taken place at
sea, between one of the United States squadron,
and two war-steamers of Miramon's, which the
Americans boarded and captured, after firing
into and disabling them. The Government at
Washington at once approved of the act, and
ordered a naval reinforcement to proceed‘imme-
diately to Vera Cruz.
If it be correct, as it is reported, that the
French Emperor has sent assurances to the
Belgian and Prussian Governments, that his
annexation of Savoy and Nice is not to be
regarded as a precedent for any similar aggres-
sion elsewhere, it only shows, we think, what
good ground Louis Napoleon is afraid there will
be taken to be, by those Powers, to be alarmed
for the integrity of their respective territories.
His Majesty is said to have spoken of what he
has just done as " an incident of an exceptional
nature, which cannot occur again with respect to
any other country." But who knows what may
arise to entirely change the current of such
thoughts as these ? Who can trust him, after
what has now taken place ? Circumstances may
so completely alter his present views—even if he
be sincere in his profession of them—that both
Belgium and the ItheniSh provinces of Prussia
may come to be as much coveted, and their
annexation as determinedly insisted upon, as
Savoy and Nice hare been.
Savoy and Nice are being taken possession
of by France very quietly, and very much
as a matter of course. The troops the
Emperor has despatched thither have been
well received,—in Nice, in particular, their
reception is represented as having been most
enthusiastic, the people going out to meet ,them,
and strewing flowers in their way, and the
houses in the city being decorated with tri-
coloured flags.
One of our latest telegrams from Paris, it will be
seen, states that Switzerland will not proceed with
her military preparations,—those preparations
which the aggressive policy of the French
Emperor was inciting her to make. And this is
well. The Savoy and Nice affair is not worth
fighting about. It has put the other Powers of
Europe on their guard ; and Switzerland will
not, iu the end, be allowed to suffer. But how is
it that almost simultaneously with that intelli-
gence from Switzerland, we receive information
of a combined system of concentric batteries
having been proposed for the defence of the
French coasts, which, it is asserted, will render
the approach of an enemy's fleet impossible ?
What enemy can be thought likely to approach
the French coast ? Surely England cannot be
meant ; for England has no desire to be France's
enemy ? And yet is England, as a matter of
prudent precaution, obliged to be prepared with
her own naval resources,—not knowing what
may be going to happen. It is stated, for in-
stance, that a telegraphic despatch has been
received at Devonport by the Port-Admiral,
instructing him to have a portion of the Channel
squadron, now at Plymouth, prepared for sea
immediately,—that sealed orders have since been
received from the Admiralty, and that, although
the exact destination of the squadron to be
despatched is unknown, yet there was reason
to believe that it would sail direct to the Medi-
terranean. At present the movement is some-
what inexplicable. But it has an ominous

appearance.
If what we hear be true, the movement in
Parliament for securing a better arrangement
with France as to British Shipping in French
ports, has already led to a most important step
having been resolved upon by Her Majesty's
Government,—namely, the appointment of a
Commission to negotiate with the French Empe-
ror a maritime treaty for the abrogation of all
differential duties upon the shipping of either
country in the ports of the other, in accordance
with the resolution of the House of Commons
recently agreed to at the instance of Mr. Lindsay
and Mr. Horsfall.
The depleting effects of our French bargain
upon the public revenue have soon begun to
apparent. "There is a decrease of about 1360,000
in Customs, arising from the operation of the
Commercial Treaty with France." Such is the
statement that has had to be made in the report
of the revenue account for the quarter ending last
Saturday, as already given in our columns. That
is to say, we have already lost that large sum, in
hard cash, by the bargain, to say nothing of what
we have suffered in prestige, in reputation, and
in credit. Only too truly does one of our Liberal
contemporaries say of it, that " if the treaty was
a bargain' at all, in the old sense of the word,
there can be no doubt that it was a bad bargain,
inasmuch as the reciprocity was chiefly on one
side ; and if we have made a bad commercial
bargain, we have done a foolish thing every way,
for most assuredly we have reaped no political
advantage from the transaction." So far from
reaping any political advantage, indeed, we have
sustained very serious political depreciation, and
have been inveigled into a complication by the
Imperial adventurer with whom it was all the
while pretended we were "drawing closer the
ties of friendship." As the same Liberal journalist
just quoted well remarks, "it is now only too
plain that if the scope and provisions of the
treaty were in the slightest degree determined.on
our side by a desire to make Europe believe that
England and France were cordially united about
the Italian question, we committed, to say the
least, a most wonderful mistake." And such
mistakes are very serious things, more especially
at so critical a conjuncture as the present. Com-
mercially, if carried out in good faith, the treaty
might probably in time do good. But we have
no hopes of any advantages from it, either
politically or socially—either for the present or
the future.

NOTHING has shown the subserviency of the
Ministerial party in the House of Commons more
strikingly, than the willingness with which they
appear to have assented to, not the re-imposition
merely, but the increase of the Income-tax, and
more particularly as proceeding from one who
like Mr. GLADSTONE, had over and over again,
and not very long since, denounced such an
impost as iniquitous, We cannot but think that
the Conservatives were in this, as they have been