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

the prizes to the successful candidates at the late
Cambridge local examination in Liverpool. We
have pleasure in directing the attention of our
readers to the full report of Ws
,Aprdship's-ctble
speedh, and of the other, .prOceediiigs; in another
column.

The Kirkdale Quarter Sessions were opened
yesterday by Lord Stanley. It is satisfactory to
observe from' the Head-constable's report that the
criminal statistics for the last quarter are more
favourable than they have been for any like period
during-the last two years. There is some draw-
back to this statement, however, in the fact that
the serious offence of housebreaking has increased.
The magistrates are subscribing two guineas each
for the widow of the late Superintendent Sellers.
The alleged wholesale adulteration of pepper
in Liverpool, which recently excited so much
attention, again attracts notice, from the
successful prosecution of Three retail dealers
in that article, at Prescot, yesterday. It
will be remembered that, in the former case the
prosecution broke down in consequence of the want
of sufficiently convincing scientific evidence of the
fact of adulteration—:-but in 'this" case the. adulte-
ration was not denied, and the only. plea of the
defendants was that the article was sold by them
in the same state as they' had procured it from
the wholesale merchants. The bench acquitted
the defendants of all guilty knowledge of adulte-
ration.

The Lords met last night. It appears that a
wish to grant compensation to the sufferers on
board the Medina, at Leghorn, had been expressed,
but the late revolution had caused the suspension
of the negotiations. The bills for the consolida-
tion of the criminal law were referred to a select
committee. The Divorce Court, and the Oxford
University, and the Municipal Corporation Mort-
gages Bills, after some discussion, were read a
second time.

The -Commons had a brief sitting yesterday
afternoon. It was explained to the House that
the mortality on board various transports arriving
at Madras and Bombay was clue to the breaking
out of contagious diseases among the passengers.
The great prize fight was talked of, but Sir G. C.
Lewis, on behalf of the Government, could give
no explanations. Lord Palmerston stated that
the second reading of the Reform Bill would
certainly' come on on Monday next. Leave was
given ta-introduce several _bills, and the Adultera-
tion of Food and Drink Bill was passed.

It seems the rumours are well founded which
have been in circulation for some time, to the
effect that the examination papers containing the
questions submitted to candidates for military
appointments, and which none ought to see until
they enter the place of trial, have been clandes-
finely obtained, and privately circulated, before
the time, among those intending to compete.
Indeed, they have actually been reprinted and
sold to those who were dishoxourable enough to
avail themselves of such means, of obtaining a
commission. All efforts to discover the parties
guilty of this breach of confidence have been as
yet unavailing, but it is to be hoped they will be
discovered and exposed.
The disturbance in Spain would seem to have
been entirely suppressed, and General Ortega
has been- executed.-

The revolution continues to spread throughout
Naples and Sicily. The movement in Sicily,
however, appears in the meantime to have so far
miscarried. The bombardment of the city of
Messina has, ere this time, been effected.
The Count of Syracuse has addressed a letter to
his nephew- the'King of Naples, warning his
Majesty of the dangerous tendency of his present
policy, and advising him to grant a constitution to
his people; and to conclude an _alliance with Pied-
mont. It is to be feared the advice, even were it
adopted, which is far from likely; comes almOst, if
not altogether, too late. The kingdom is already
all but in a blaze of insurrection.

The French account of the voting in Nice
shows the voting to be so nearly unanimous, in
fa.vour of annexation to France, that only eleven
said " no" to it.

ONE of the most discouraging features in recent
political controversy, has been the spirit of inter-
necine warfare which intemperate partisans have
striven to import into existing national relations.
Without giving two thoughts to the subject,
everyone would admit that it cannot be the
office of a wise politician, or of a good man, to
multiply points of difference for the sake of
kindling animosities, or to make the sense of
evils which it is the real interest of all to com-
bine in alleviating, a mere personal and factious
matter. No one can have any difficulty in coming
to the conclusion, that that is the only true
policy which, in the end, reconciles the interests
of classes, and assumes the fundamental unity of
the people. It becomes, however, every day, a
question of more anxiety to the public of
observers and of readers, in what a true English
policy, and the functions of an honest newspaper
consist. Most critics of current affairs, however
sharp and uncompromising, would wish to begin
with the belief that, on the whole, the intentions
of all well-known public men, of whatever party
or opinion, are for the general good of the nation.
Most generous men, too, would wish to believe,
that there is no recognised or considerable section
of the people, which does not desire that its own
interests should be found consistent with the
interests of the body at large. In all reason,
these are surely small admissions to ask, when
we know that no one would in theory repudiate
them. Yet, the moral evils of faction are
actually incurred, and alloWed to interfere with
justice and progress, because in practice men take
the very converse of them for granted. But now
that all parties admit, that the time has arrived
for admitting to their share of the franchise our
fellow-countrymen of the " working classes," it
is more than ever important that those who
pretend or aspire to be their guides in the use of
political privileges, should set before themselves,
not a narrow and isolated, but an enlarged and
patriotic standard. We are not weak enough to
apprehend danger from the mode in which the
honest working man will exercise his new
political power. But there is something to
apprehend and to be warned against in
the possible influence of those who would
distort the nation into a number of separate fig-
ments, and the, art of polities into a civil war,
and a " catch who catch can." Most of our fear
may well be kept for the adventurer whose object
is not to educate the whole people up to the
appreciation of a common privilege, but, having
first thrown into confusion everything belonging
to Pcig f A 4n 1,;.1 sl, inunerouß
or the most powerful to go in and win.
Speaking— of Englishmen with regard to the
sentiment of nationality it has been at all times a
matter of comment, that they are perhaps too
much given to an invidious use of their national
appellation. We suppose it would be difficult to
justify on any moral or abstract ground whatever,
our using the name of our country as a synonym
for whatever is pre-erainent in power or virtue

At least it is more than likely, that a foreigner
might be unable to appreciate the force which we
think to convey in the phrase, as applied to ob-
jects of praise or censure, of " English" and
"un-English." Probably we should be as little
likely to attach their true significance to the

words un-Dutch or un-French, as designating
improper bekaviour on the part of these respec-
tive natives. And it must be granted, if, when a

politician is corrupt, or a magistrate unjust, or a
statesman perfidious, We pay ourselves a secret
compliment by characterising him as " an-Eng-
lish," we do it at the expense of our modesty.
But our peculiarity receives a further exaggeration
by a converse application of it. It is SMOLLETT

who remarks, that when an Englishman gets
into a quarrel with a foreigner he is probably the
only countryman who uses the nationality of his
opponent as a term of opprobrium. It is then
that he points his contempt for the " vain French-

man," or the " frowsy Dutchman,". or the " arro-
gant Spaniard," or the " lazy German." For

of course it his pleasant fancy not only to appro-
priate excellence as being of right a mark of his

native character, but to deny it as having a fore-

most place in that of his foreign rival.

Now though we do not treat all this as any-