The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-09-12 00:00:00

by the Corporation, and there was an honourable I Movement, we regret to observe one arising
understanding that the whole of his fees should I wholly among Volunteers themselves. There is

be handed over to the Corporation fund, which
arrangement was carried out to the time of

Mr. WRIGHT was appointed his
successor on the same honourable understand-
ing that he was to receive a salary of
five hundred a year, and to hand over the surplus
fees to the corporation fund. Subsequently, the
duties of the office having largely increased, the
salary Was raised to seven hundred a year, with
the same understanding that the surplus fees
should be paid into the corporation fund, and
accordingly-those fees were paid over until 1852 ;
but from 1852 to the present time the Clerk of
the Peace has paid nothing into the corporation
fund; although nothing whatever has, or could
have, occurred to alter .the honourable under-
,
standing of 1844. This arrangement was not
such as could have been embodied in a written
agreement, in consequence of the terms of the
Act of Parliament; but it was not less distinctly
understood, nor one whit less binding. upon the
honour of the parties, else why was it so
long acted upon? Mr. BRAMLEY-MOORE stated
his belief that since 1852, when Mr. WRIGHT
ceased to pay over the surplus, he had received
above his salary the sum of £3,832, which sum,
he maintained, was now due by the Clerk- of the
Peace to the corporate treasury. Mr. JEFFERY,
speaking as to the surplus fees retained by Mr.
WRIGHT, endeavoured to shew.that Mr. Alderman

is death.

BRAMLEY-MOORE had under-est imated the amount,
*and which Mr. JEFFERY calculated at about five
thousand pounds. Mr. JEFFERY added that,
although he, as Chairman of the Committee of
Investigation, had desired the Clerk of the Peace
to. furnish them with an account of the fees
received over the period of 'time referred to by
Alderman BRAMLEY-MOORE, Mr. WRIGHT had
positively declined to do so, although their only
object was to adjust then'existing differences.
By way of meeting these statements, Mr.
WRIGHT has developed the remarkable capacities
of his memory in a letter addressed by him to
the Liverpool Mail. In answer to Mr. JEFFERY'S
assertion that Mr. WRIGHT had declined
to furnish an account of the. fees he had received,
he writes, "I am unconscious at this moment
that I ever refused to give any information."
This question has been easily set at rest by the
production of copies of Mr. JEFFERY'S request
and Mr. WRIGHT'S denial. Mr JEFFERY wrote.
to Mr. WRIGHT, on the 20th of January, 1859,
requesting inter all 2 to be furnished with an
account of all fees received by the Clerk of the
Peace of this borough since the date of his last
settlement with the Treasurer." To. which Mr.
WRIGHT replied, "I must, as at present advised,
decline to accede to the application contained in
your letter of the 20th instant." So much for
Mr. WRIGHT'S bad memory—or momentary. un-
consciousness, to adapt his own phraseology. But
Mr. WRIGHT, in his latest public appearance,
proceeds to attack Mr. BRAMLEY-MOORE and
Mr. LLOYD. Does Mr. WRIGHT attempt to'
refute the Alderman's cr-c:shing charges against
him ? Not directly ; but he professes to let
us into the secret of " all the communications
that took place between -him Self [he puts
himself first] . and Mr. PRAMLEY-MOORE on
the subject of the Clerk of the Peace.". .And how
does he perform this feat ? By plain narrative
and direct assertion'? --Oh, no-not at all. After

stringing together two or three questions which he
does not venture to answer, he proceeds—" which is
all," &c. But our readers will best appreciate
this novel mode of refutation by again looking
over the entire conglomeration of sentences as put
by the Clerk himself. He says :
" I would ask Mr. Bramley-Moore if he has forgotten
the morning of the day I was appointed Clerk of the
Peace ? Has he' orgotten coming to me in the ‘Athen-
wum,' after Mr. Lloyd had tried to induce Me to resign
in his favour, and asking me to resign in favour of Mr.
Lloyd; that, if I would do so, a place should be. pro-
vided for me with a salary of £BOO per annum ? Has
he forgotten my reply—that 'I was never a party to a
job in my life, and I never would be; that I would be
Clerk of the Peace or nothing at all ?'—which, is all the
communication that took place.between myself and 'dr.
Bramley-Moore on the subject of the Clerk or the
Peace."-

Is it poSsible that Mr. WRIGIIT's memory has
,been aided-1)y his imagination in putting-these
questions ?' There is something . characteristic
about the form in which these interrogatories
• commence—" Has heforgotten." Of course no-one
knows better than Mr. 11 ..TRIGHT how •to forget
things that it might be inconvenientld_remember.
Fortunately, -however,' -for 'the—two gentlemen
named, they are not reduced to the necessity o
appealing to treacherous memories. It is demon-
strable that no such conversation as that insinua-
ted rather than asserted. by Mr. WRIGHT ever
took place between him and Mr. BRAMLEY-
MOORE ; and that the idea of Mr. LLOYD endea-
vouring to induce Mr. WRIGHT to resign in his
favour is incredible and . absurd. On the con-
trary it will be found on reference to the news-
papers of the day that at the meeting of the
Town Council held on the 9th of November, 1844,
Mr. LLOYD actually was the person to propose,
and the late Mr. JAMES ASPINALL seconded,
" That Mr. PETER WRIGHT is a fit and proper
person to be appointed Clerk of the Peace, during
good behaviour, receiving the fees of his office,
and accounting for beyond the sum of £500; and
that his appointment be understood not to inter-
fere with'his practising private businesS as here-
tofore." The appointMent was deferred to the
adjourned meeting of the Council on the
13th of the same month, in order to obtain a
declaration from Mr. WRIGHT in writing, that
he would be satisfied with the salary of £5OO a
year. At the meeting of the Council on the 13th
of November, after the several
applications for
the situation had been read, Mr. LLOYD again
proposed and Mr. HARROW? seconded the appoint-
ment of Mr. WRIGHT, at the salary of £5OO per
annum. As we have already stated, there was
a legal difficulty in the way of getting a declara-
tion in writing that he would be satisfied with
the £5OO a year, and hand over the surplus ; but
a verbal assurance was given by Mr. WRIGHT
-to that effect, upon which, as: we have said; he
acted for years. We are authorised to deny that
Mr. LLOYD 'ever "tried to induce'' Mr. WRIGHT
to resign in his favour, but we feel that such a
denial is a work of supererogation before the
,fact
we have proved, namely, that Mr. WRIGHT now
holds his office on the repeated motion of. the
gentleman whom he now turns round upon,
and accuses of having tried to induce him
not to accept it ! Whether shall we give
most weight to the independent testimony.
of two such . men ,as Mr. BRAMLEY-MOORE
and Mr. LLOYD, supported as they are
by the . facts adduced. or to the insinuations of
Mr. PETER WRIGHT, attempting to defend his
exorbitant gains; and noted as he must ever, be
for his convenient memory ?-. On the general
we shall only add that while Mr.
question
WRIGHT may argue that when Government
undertook to repay the cost of- the prosecutions,
instead of these being made a charge upori the
Borough Fund as at the time of his appointment,
his honourable understanding with the Corpora-
tion came to an end, -the public are entirely
unable to appreciate a process of reasoning which
authorises the alteration of an honourable under-
standing, on the faith of which he received his
appointment, without the consent :of both the
contracting parties; and we Conclude with Air.
JEFFERY'S Words at the last Council that " as an
honourable- man, Mr._PETER WRIGHT ought to

clistgorie."

VOLUNTEER BICKERING 3.

AMONG the difficulties which have thrown them-
selves in the path of the glorious Volunteer

springing up here and there a feeling akin to
animosity and hatred—if these be not too strong

terms—between local corps, which have come to
view each other in the light of rivals. Granted
that these slight disturbances may be attributa-
ble in their origin to " zeal without discretion,"
or to an over:earnest desire to secure the prospe-
rity of the whole organisation without making
sufficiently generous allowances for the peculiari-
ties and preferences of individuals justly entitled
to a fair share of consideration ; _ there is a dan-
ger of the feeling becoming so embittered, that
paltry causes of variance may come to assume an
undue importance in the estimation of the dispu-
tants, and thence lead to consequences more seri-
ously obstructive to the welfare of the force gene-
rally..
that could at first have been.entertained as
even probable. The various uniforms and equip-
ments—the appointment of officersthe enact-
ment of regulations for companies, battalions, and
brigades—all are subjects susceptible of being
dealt with variously according to the feelings,
views, and perhaps interests of the several parties
most prominently placed in the conduct if these
affairs. Without kindly forbearance and a gen-
erous construction of motives, personal differences
are apt to arise in the course of adjusting these
matters, and we have good reason to know, have
arisen and been carried perhaps beyond the limits
of propriety.

For ourselves, we wish to state that,—while
we have kept ourselves entirely free from all
these disputes or misunderstandings, and, as per-
fectly independent journalists, in no way tied to
one class or corps more than any other, feeling no
interest in the success or defeat of anv of these
debateable points,—we do feel most desirous of
seeing fair play and justice done to all, and of
exerting ourselves, by every means within our
power, to say or do anything that may tend to
restore goodwill and amity wherever these have
been broken through. We have never yet
donned the green, the scarlet, the grey, or the
blue uniform—we know nothing of " facings," or
of drill. It may be to our shame ; but there is
the fact. We have no preference for this or that
corps—we hail them all as the noble volunteer
defenders of our hearths and homes, and wish
one and all GOD speed. Let there be no other
rivalry known among our brave Volunteers
except in individual proficiency in duty and lo
heartfelt loyalty and devotion to the common
cause, and to the maintenance, intact, of the
throne of Queen VICTORIA and our free Consti-
tution. To this end we have freely opened or
columns to all, without distinction or preference•
Our space is entirely at their command for the
announcement of all their arrangements, and the
recording of every Volunteer movement of local
and general interest. This is our humble contrl'
bution to the cause, and we trust it will not be
without its effect, in proving our disinterested
desire to forward the movement generally, and
to especially promote its prosperity in Liverpool
and the adjoining district.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE

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FRANCE.

(FRO:',[ OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, Thursday, Sept. 10, 1860-
The 'retirement of Francis 11. and the entry 0(
Garibaldi into Naples are confirmed, and the
latest news last night from Italy was to the
effect that an armed intervention on the part Of
Piedmont was imminent. Not a doubt of it.
despatch has also arrived in Paris direct from
Rome,- in which it is stated that an insurrectionari
movement had burst out at Urbino in the Ombria,
and that an annexionist committee, after being
organised in that city, had put itself in commune'
cation with the Central Italian Committee. This
is evidently the mode in which it is sought to
repeat in the States of Rome, the programme
which has been so successfully performed in the
case of Naples. The Pontifical Government ha°.
no troops in Urbino on which it can depend, and
this ancient duchy is already lost to it. The.
Marches have also sent a deputation to 'Victor
Emmanuel to implore his protection,
A Turin correspondent of the Journal des
Debats writes to state that on Friday last Victor
Emmanuel had_ gone to Florence to put himself
at the head of the army which is to enter the
Roman States, and that M. Cavour was to assume
in the meantime the functions of Minister for
War. The force which is to enter the Pontifical
States is fixed at not less than 60,000 men, in
order, it. is said, to render any resistance on the
part of General Lamoriciere out of the question'
It is thought that he will fall back upon Ancona,
where he will be out of harm's way. This imp:4' '
taut ana decisive . proceeding on the part of %Vl'
Cavonr is said to be taken in consequence of his
having received no satisfactory reply to the note
he addressed to Cardinal Antonelli, calling upon
him to disband the foreign troops in the service
of the Pope ; and because he (M. Cavour) con'
ceives he is justified in holding that, so long a*
the -Pope .is beholden for assistance to these,
foreign bayonets, he is violating the principle 01
intervention, by which all parties concerned
have resolved to abide in reference to the present
crisis in Italian affairs. As to the French garri'
son, it will be answered, that it was in Rote
before the disturbances broke out, and that it 110
received orders to confine itself strictly to the
defence of the capital and to the immediately
adjoining territory, which was the original object
of its mission. But I still incline to think that
this intelligence is premature, if not inexact, and
that the Cabinet of Turin will continue to adhere
to its plan of not taking the initiative in any
aggressive movement. Its interest is clearly to
do so,—to second, but not to take direct action,
and this, as I have so often pointed out, has bee°
the policy of M. Cavour throughout. The non'
intervention of Austria is not so completely
assured as to warrant implicit reliance being
placed in her recognising this principle, an
there are symptoms of a desire on the part of the
French Government to resume friendly relation°
with the Cabinet of Vienna, as well as of that
desire being reciprocated. Lombardy is more vain'
able than the Marches: Let Piedmont leave the
initiative in the attack on the Roman States to
Garibaldi and his army. They have nothing'
better to do now that Naples is delivered, ad
they would be much better employed in uniting
tbe Marches and Ombria to the rest of Italy, and
driving Lamoriciere and his cut-throats into the
sea, than in realising any of those projeets which
have been attributed to Garibaldi of attackitg
Austria in Illyria, or descending upon Venice frora
the Adriatic. The Neapolitan fleet refused to g°,
to Trieste at the bidding of Francis 11. ; it wool-4
probably refuse to be employed against Austria'
unless at the bidding of Victor Emmanuel, Who
dare not, yet, at least, say the word.
The immediate causes assigned for the flight of
Francis 11. to Gaeta, where, if he remains, he wil
he more than ever under the fatal counsels c°
Cardinal Antonelli, are the defection of the bee'
Bade Caldarelli, the sickness of General Bose°
(whether simulated or not has not yet appeared)
one of the very few defenders of his dynasty on
whom he could still count, and the opposition f
llinistry to .the sending of the fleet to Trieste'
that it might be. out of the way of Garibaldi. e'
that
is said also, as regards the fleet, that there vi,ral
regular mutiny threatened if the officers 4"
attempted to carry out the wishes of the Ting-;
The semi-official . journals yesterday, ill'
dulged in • quite a volley of contradictions;
According to them, the contents of the recent
order of the day by General. de Noue to liar.
officers and soldiers are quite incorrect, in so f9O
as he was made to say; that he had orders t
defend any other part of the Roman dominil
than Rome and Civita Vecchia. No two French
vessels have_ arrived in the latter port to assist ill
fortifying it, and M. Mon, the Spanish Ambas.soa_
dor has not gone home to provide for the reception
of Francis 11., and, finally, there is no truth to
the rumour thee 2.10,000 men of the effectic
force .of the French army was to be mobilzeio
I also observe, by the way, that the Papal Nunche
at the Court of Vienna, has authorised all t
papers of that city to. contradict in the 111-,°_.y
s 3;
formal manner, the famous order of the
attributed to General Lamoriciere, in which t
alleged—thong,h not without a correction on
i. a: e