The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-08-23 00:00:00

MR BRIGHT'S NEXT CAMPAIGN.

" MR. BRIGHT, M.P., has arrived at Inverness ; "
so says the "Bright particular" Star. While
we almost give way to astonishment on finding
that Mr. BRIGHT persists in thus annually fol-
lowing the example of the upper classes, whom
he so much abhors, we cannot but express a
hope that he may be more successful as a.sports-
man than he has been as an agitator this season;
and that the cool and bracing atmosphere of the
north may tend to restore that mental equili-
brium which so many recent failures could not
fail to have disturbed. We sincerely trust that
with renewed energy he may also acquire
increased wisdom, and cease from following
vicious courses. We have our fears, however.
We are afraid lest the disease has become
chronic, and that as he has lived so will he
die, a noted demagogue,—not that we anticipate
much harm, for out of what is evil in him has
already, and may still continue to, come much good.
There is reason to believe that monarchy and
the Rouse of Lords are now to become more
especially the objects against which this unhappy
and unsuccessful gentleman is forthwith to level
his oratorical revolver.
Mr. BRIGHT'S hobby is the false docirine that
the lower classes are unduly saddled with a dis-
proportionate share of taiLtion__thp poor and
nnenfranchised being, victimised by the middle
and upper classes. This was to be rectified by
Mr. BRIGHT'S wonderful Reform Bill., 'whereby
the people, by reason of greater numbers, would
have been in a position to dictate to the land;
owners and capitalistF;, we
always maintained
that in proposing
and supporting that or any

other measure of ." Reform," such as Lord JOHN
RUSSELL'S last, which Mr. BRIGHT called an
"instalment," he had no other object in view
than gradually to upset the Constitution, and
ultimately substitute Republicanism for the
limited Monarchy which has made the Govern-
ment of this country the envy of every people
thirsting after liberty. Mr. BRIGHT now finds that
his ill-disguised efforts to steal a march upon us in
the shape of a " Reform," have only been laughed
at, so he must change his game; and accordingly he
openly avows by speech and in writing, as well
as through the columns of his " kept " organ,
that the people of this country pay too dearly for
the Queen and the Lords. Because the, people
have not sympathised with his wild proposals for
revolutionising the House of Commons, he would
teach them that the House of Peers and the
Crown are their great oppressors, and must be
set aside altogether. It is a pity that Mr.
BRIGHT seems incapable of learning wisdom from
experience. This coming campaign will, un-
doubtedly prove, if possible, a still greater mis-
take than any upon which he has ever entered.
If it be true that every cause Mr. BRIGHT under-
takes to promote becomes speedily blighted and
destroyed, and that everything he attacks there-
upon passes into a new course of favour and pros-
perity, then ought we to rejoice and congratulate
the first and second estates of the realm on the
additional strength which is about to be conferred
upon them. Seriously we believe that nothing
would more clearly elicit the feelings of warm
devotion to the Throne and the Constitution
which exist—it may be, to some extent, slumber—
in the breasts of the people of England, than an
organised onslaught upon these institutions at
the instance of the arch-demagogue.
It sounds well, and play produce some little
impression upon the ill-informed and the super-
ficial, to harangue about the over-taxation of the
working-man, and the comparative exemption of
the aristocracy ; but it requires a great deal of
dishonest audacity for the BRIGHT and COBDEN
school of politicians to take their stand upon any
such pretence. Who has retained the tea and
sugar tax ? Who sold so much of the resources
of this country to France, by means of a com-
mercial treaty ? Who has encouraged Louis
NAPOLEON in his ambitious course, until we are
forced to spend tens of millions in self-defence ?
Who but COBDEN, BRIGHT, and Co. Has
not the whole course of legislation for many
years back been characterised by the most strenu-
ous efforts to lessen the burden of taxation on the
labouring classes ; and if these endeavours have
in some measure been checked and thwarted, has
it not been by the traitorous proceedings of these
cotton statesmen ? If we compare the condition
of the English labourer with that of any other in
the world, we will find that upon the whole he
is by far the most lightly burdened with taxes.
If another class a little above that of the
labourer,—those whose hard-won earnings are
only ample enough to subject them to the
income-tax,—if they have any ground of com-
plaint against the recent addition to that impost,
they know that it was imposed in consequence
of Manchester legislation. If we all look for-
ward to a still further increase of that odious
tax next year, we know that it springs from
the same source. Mr. BRIGHT, forsooth, the
champion of the working classes ! Who has
opposed every effort to restrict the hours
of labour, and to save infancy from toil
that can only crush its vitality and repress its
growth ? Whose workmen at Rochdale have had
to strike in order to obtain the concession of their
reasonable demands for some little relaxation
from the slavery of the mills ? Mr. BRIGHT can
tell. Who have denounced the Volunteers, chiefly
because they have promoted a general half-holiday
and early closing movement ? None so loudly as
your Brightite Radicals. Truly it will take more
than Mr. BRIGHT'S eloquence to convince the
people of England that he is " the coming man,"
or that his principles are otherwise than essentially
tyrannical, and that their adoption in the legis-
lature of this country would prove especially
inimical to their well-being.

Mr. BRIGHT has but one grand object in view,
which may be summed up in one word—CorroN.
Before this everything else must give way.
He would sell his country to advance its
interests. It is not for the promotion of trade
and commerce generally, but for the advancement
of Manchester millowners exclusively. Perish
England and all her glory, if only the cotton
mills survive and prosper. Queen VICTORIA must
abdicate, and the House of Lords become a myth,
if they will not bow to the dictation of the cotton
lords of Manchester. Thus, because the Upper
Howe of parliament refused to do so in the
matter of the paper duty, it was, and is now,
threatened with ignominious extinction. " What
institution is there in the English system," asks
Mr. BRIGHT, " worth a tribute of sixty millions
a year ?" Patriotism may thus be reduced to a
question of pounds, shillings, and pence, by this
class of politicians. But let Mr. BRIGHT beware
The English are a patient people, and permii
unbounded freedom of speech. But we are much
mistaken, should they be driven to it, if they do
not answer his degrading and insulting question
with an energy, and in a manner, that may cause
him and his class deeply to mourn the day on
which he dared thus openly to play the traitor,
and trifle with the honour of our institutions, the
independence of the nation, and the freedom and
happiness of the people.

THE RETURNS OF THE FRENCH BOARD
OF TRADE.

THE report of the Permanent Commission of
Values in France, for the Session of 1860, has
just been made public. The trade returns re-
ferred to in the report are applicable to the
year 1859, and the Commissioners state, re-
garding them, that, " It is to be noticed that,
during the last year the downward movement,
produced in 1858 by the disastrous effect of the
American crisis which occurred at the end of
1857, has been relaxed, but that the circum-
stances of the political exterior have continued
to cause the retrograde movement to be main-
tained on a certain number of articles." The
report states that no sensible fluctuation has
taken place in the import prices of corn and
wine, and that the average prices, of apirituous
liquors, of sugars, and coffees, have very slightly
increased. Various upward movements have
taken place in the price of fodder, cattle, beer,
eggs, and cheese, in consequence of the long-con-
tinued drought which almost everywhere charac-
terised the preceding year (1859). The rise in
the price of hops is stated to be One to
to the poverty of the crop, and more particu-
larly, to the extension in France of the use of beer.
The metals, the wood used for masting, the prin-
cipal woods used by cabinet makers, certain woods I,
used in dyeing, and coals introduced by land,
have fallen in price, " either because the demand
is relaxed, or, as regards some of these articies,
because the freight has been Tess (Tear or the
charge for the carriage in tlie interior has been a
little diminished." In the series of manufactured
ro , woven fabrics, and their
primaryc tio u
B—bstatliacis
substances, numerous variations in price
productions—threads,
have been observable, less consideraNe aoid lees
marked, however, than in 4858,
Tir impartations of silks in MO, comparedwith those of 1858, bst"?
1,934,000 kilt diminished from
to 1,685,000 kil. for unspun sijk,
Tina from 1,249,000 kil. to Loi.o,oola kil• for
worked fabrics. If the worked productions
have )anticipated in the rise in the
price of the
material, they have also, occasionally, been sub-
ected to a fall, resulting, in general, from the prqz
ferenee given by consumers to certain fabrics of less

costly value, and as a consequence to the increase
in the manufacture of articles which admit, to a
more or less great extent, of being mixed with
other texile substances." The exportations of
silk stuff, which represented in actual value
378,000,000 of francs in 1858, are raised in the
following year (1859) to 499,000,000.
The consumption of wools, the product of
foreign countries, is 40,041,000 against 30,019,000
in 1858. The exportation of woollen fabrics has
advanced in actual value from 156,000,000 to

181,000,000 ; but there has been a very consider-
able admixture of cotton in the manufacture of
mixed fabrics of 11 00l and silk stuff, owing to
the contraction of the limits of the price offered
for this description of goods. Several articles,
however, such as blankets, for example, have
been reduced in price, owing to the improvements
in the process of manufacture.
The extension of the cultivation of flax and of
hemp and a good crop, have caused a diminution
in the importation of flax and peeled hemp.
In 1858, there were received from foreign coun-
tries, 33,761,800 kil. ; last year the consumption
was only 21,439,500 kil. As for the exportations of
these articles, they have fallen from 14,700,000 fr,
to 13,500,000 fr. The prices of these substances
have shown very little variation one year and
another, but the decrease is maintained on ropes
and linen cloths.

The consumption of raw cotton has increased
from 79,553,000 kil. to 81,617,000 kil. ; whilst
the exportations of cotton fabrics are diminished
from 67,800,000 fr. to 67,200,000 fr. in value.
The raw cottons have been paid fofr, on an ave-
rage, from 3 to 4 per cent. more than in 1858 ;
common threads below the trade number 143,
have risen 10 per cent. ; and calicoes, except
printed, 10, 12, 18, and even 20 per cent. This
augmentation results especially from the increasing
substitution of cotton for silk, for wool, and for
linen, in certain fancy articles ; likewise to the
progressive development of manufacturing esta-
blishments, which each year absorb a greater
quantity of white calicoes.
The report of the Commissioners abstains from
passing, in review, the immense variety of indus-
trial products, such as skins and leathers,
drugs, dyes, colouring matters and chemical
productions, soaps and perfumery, glass ware,
wood, metals, and worked leathers, mercery,
goldsmiths' ware, jewellery, saddlery, paperings,
arms, and a hundred other articles of workman-
ship, upon which Parisian industry is especially
exercised ; the fact being that the fluctuations in
the prices of these articles arise from a number
of causes, too diverse and complex to admit of their
being made the subject of a general and analytical
statement or estimate.

In concluding their report, the Commissioners
observe that the general result of their labours
discloses no exceptional fact of sufficient import-
ance to justify any particular article being
singled out for remark apart from the others ;
and that, on the whole, the state of the returns
indicate, in a marked manner, a positive amelio-
ration in the general state of the trade of the
country.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRANCE.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
WEDNESDAY, August 22.

Some attention has been called here to the text
of a speech, said by the Morning Post to have
been addressed by Garibaldi to the National
Guard of Messina, in which he expressed himself
in a very contemptuous manner respecting France,
asserting that " her will was not attended to in
any part of Europe." Now, whatever, may be
the Dictator's private opinion respecting France
and her Government, one can hardly imagine
him guilty of such bad taste and imprudence as
would lead him to express these feelings in public,
and in the language there imputed to him. In
fact, I have excellent reason, for believing that the
speech is the next thing to a myth altogether, and
that what he actually did say on this occasion
had reference solely to diplomacy in general. It
is extremely unfair to him, and to his reputation,
thus to put words and sentiments into his mouth,
which are not only devoid of every kind of mean-
ing, but manifestly fatal to all the interests of the
cause which he has espoused. It seems to be one of
the penalties attached to greatness, in the present
day, that a man's reputation is so often removed
out of his own hands altogether, and taken pos-
session of by newspapers, and their correspon-
dents, whose object is, not so much to
state what is true, as to create a sensation.
This leads me to speak of the celebrated letter to
Mr. Parker, of your town, which went the round
of the English papers, and afterwards appeared
in the Constitutionnel, from whence I extracted
it, and sent a translation of it to you. MM. Crispi
and Amari, who, fully as imuch as any men, enjoy
the confidence of the Dictator, have stated in
certain despatches forwarded by them to Paris,
that they have no knowledge whatever of any
such letter. M. Crispi thus expresses himself on
the subject—" I know that General Garibaldi is
enchanted with the sympathy which the people
of Great Britain at length manifest for the Italian
cause. But I believe also I may assure you, that
he is far from being, on that account, insensible
to the powerful and generous aid which has been
given by the Emperor Napoleon towards the
, achievement of our independence ; for our cause
is that of nationalities, of civilisation, and of
humanity ; and it is Napoleon 111., the man of
the age, who has laid down the principle that
every people has the right of governing itself.
The General will no doubt take an opportunity
of setting public opinion right as to his real senti-
ments towards the Emperor and towards France."
M. Amari writes to the same effect, and adds,
that the ideas of the Dictator with respect to
France, are precisely the same as those which
are entertained towards that Power by the Count
of Turin. You will thus see that these gentlemen
have done their best to explain away any inten-
tion, on the part of their chief, of offending the
amour propre either of the French people, or of
the French Emperor.
As to the latest movements of Garibaldi, it is
stated in last night's papers that he quitted Cag-
liari, on the morning of the 18th inst., at the head
of an expeditionary corps of about 5,000 men,_
but that it was not known on what point he
meant to operate. He had announced when he
set off for that destination, that he would return
to Messina ; but it is thought that this statement
was intended merely as a blind to hia real objects.
I gather from the same sonrce that, according to
the latest dates, two s-Piedraontese ships
of war,
the steam frigate Constituzione, and the transport
Teito,ro, were cruising in sight of the Island of
Sardinia. They had on board two battalions of
bersaglieri ; and it is asserted that the com-
manders of these vessels have received instruc-
tions to prevent a corps of volunteers which had
been organised in Sardinia from disembarking at
Corveto, on the Pontifical territory., It is also
stated that, in conformity withthe latest mea-
sures adopted at Turin with reference to the
Ciaribaldini, and with the requirements of the
Sardinian army, M. cavour has recalled a part of
the Piedmontese officers who are in Sicily. These
statements have a much more probable air about
them than many others which are at Iv9sent so
freely hazarded.
The Opinion Natialkctk 1148 published the text
of the oath tocen before M. Depretis, the Civil
Dictator of Sicily, by the members of the Ministry
and other high functionaries of the island, This
oath attaches the members of the Provisional
Administration irrevocably to Victor Emmanuel,
and so thoroughly
4 hinds them over to the consti-
tutional arrangements of Piedmont, as to exclude
the possibility of supposing that there are present
to the minds of any of them, the smallestlendency
to Mazzinianism or eventual republicanism. At
the same time, this fcrirsal and complete act of
submission by the Government of Sicily to that of
Piedmont must add, still:further to the embarrass-
ment of Victor Emmanuel. Garibaldi makes
subjects for him; but he, at the same time,
prevents them from Tendering him exclu-
sive obedience, I am told, that the Sar-
dinian Allonarch has recently written to
his friend anq ally, Napoleon 111., to ask his
advice and his " moral" support in present circum-
stances. He is reported to have said that hie

FRANCE.

PARIS, August 22.

The French semi-official journals give out that
Garibaldi's bands who have invaded Calabria find
no enthusiasm among the population.

Lord Clarendon and Mr. Cobden dined with
the Emperor, at St. Cloud, yesterday.

GARIBALDI AND PIEDMONT.

According to the latest news, the two Sar-
dinian ships sent on a suspicious mission with
sealed orders, were cruising off the Isle of
Sardinia, having two battalions of Bersaglieri
on board. According to one rumour, they are
directed to prevent any attacks against the
Roman States. Another story is, that they are
to cut off any fresh reinforcements of volunteer*
that may attempt to make their way to Garibaldi-
The Pays argues the credibility of the latter
version, as the fact that the Piedmontese Govern
ment has recently recalled all officers serving
with Garibaldi, under the pain of being cashiered-

NAPLES.—MOVEMENTS OF GARIBALDI-
NAPLES (via Florence), August 21.

News has been received here of the landing of
2,000 Garibaldians in Calabria, who have joined
the insurgents and attacked Reggio. This morn-.
ing 130 Sicilian vessels disembarked GaribaldJ
and his army at Bagnara. The telegraph lines'
between Palmi and Reggio have been cut.. A
provisional government has been established at
Potenza. The elections have been adjourned
until the end of September. The parliament is,
to be assembled on the 20th October.

MESSINA, August I.

Garibaldi, with 3,800 men, has landed at
Melito, on the Calabrian coast, twelve miles from
Reggio. A general attack is imminent,

AMERICA.

QUEENSTOWN, August W.

The City of Washington, Captain Jeffrey, from
New York on the 11th, has arrived, bringing
upwards of %429,000 in specie. She passed thiP
Persia on the 13th, and the Arabia on the i7tk
instant. The President visited the Great Eastern
at Annavoles on the Bth instant. The reported
resignation of Secretary Cass was without foun-
dation. Exchange on London 1091, 110.