The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-04-06 00:00:00

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• FRIDAY, APRIL- 6, '1860:

THE DAY'S NEWS.

The .report of the House of Comnimi3fetitions
..Coramitiee;
,just issued, shoWs the staff of the,
Y:case, very -strlkrAiglry;-and' very significanicy;•-tis-
respects the Cliirch-ziite .questiOn.,
-*pears
that up to 2541,-J.34#4:4-0, -4 9T2...petitions were
pwsented the;:atiolltiou-of -ehiireh-rates, and
5,203 petitions-against-the-abolitiOn, showing an
excess of 231 petitions in favour -of the-Ire/At/in--
of church:rates.,. .But.-then, on; the.. Other
althongri th number of petitions. in favour of
chneelf-rfatel; SO much greater than thoSe against
then, the
,number of isguiiflaresf: is -.. consiclerbly
less. rylkntirnh'er or signatures to:the- 'petition s
of the church-rate party, waslBl,:o6, -iiyhilst the
churphlate a14144q1'410.4a4-.44(1,474,a1l excess in
favoUr of nbolitionsot3&l,723 sigtratuO, pr more-
- than'thijee.o-one:f But what of that? , ; It:is not
the number of-signaturesibut the' quality Of them,
by which the question- be. decided.:T We
know thai--the. party lave bOeri_ most,
unSerupillOus I'4 theiiinode-Of ..firoceeding,-that,
utteuly reellesig as to signing their
petitiens, it:Fine:l.ll4 for an't impoSlngiitrray, of
were. -We sh-ould t:tic.repre;:thA FOtition-
-in sUpport.9l 4404, litt4si -with only---41.-• hit:tared
.•..•
sig,ntift'elt to it 117 as 'entitleik
4o:more con era=.
. .
tion than one on the other side with ni thonAaii(l..
Some reyolting.cl.itictosures, it. seems, are
-nadk 14:.i.ige.ttles;V4414•181kAir; Alk-li!etl; as
'to the
laboitr=it-ttppgirrirtlatilSrPitt.--br. .-PieL'ikror-
peooe havit} •Been, pipe, ae has been pretended,
they were al
consent to fttt erigag inent in Nba
,was 'wrung from them by horrible modes of .
torture. This method of procuringlahatgers -for
the West Indies is therefore as ljna,:nendarlf• ;
as that of the Airier:slave trade,-=---it in' feet,
a slave trade, only in coolies instead of negroes.
They 4r4014411911-4.tiue Southern parts,Ofthini
.7.-_--eolleeted in- receiving-ships, and them tracts-'-
`_detected
to Cuba or elsewhere. Of the' 'four ship;
4.iS Satisfactory ,to find,
tha
tknot"Onels

the nneiiitscoune.sf eloquently, yet, we 'can-
not but think; very speciously, on the .question. of
belligerent rights" in time of Maritime war, which
has been iv-opened 'by a pitbliShikeiefrespondenCe
between Mr. Lndsay, M4l`., and' Lord .-John
Russell,—the former recapitulating very fully
the various arguments. which have been .advanced
for exempting merchantmen from the risk of cap:
tore; the 'latter bFicfly replying, that the proposal
gill be duly tousiclered ;by Govertithent; but that
it appears liable-to .grave objections. We need
not here go into thie:sUblect is
not what is called privtiteering that.is now With
so much reason objected to by onr shipping and
mercantile interestsfor that -Oil has been in a-
gSt measure oorrected; but the exposure of our
liiiipping and cargoes to rislo of attack and cap-
tllre at sea from Any PCIVeZ With Which we may

happen to beld war—such shipping and cargoes
_.... ~..
being the property; not of the Government, but
of private individuals. But, k -a. the leading
journal, " assujoing that Mi'..tin y has proved
his case,that case is not the-case f the British
natiot -Imit (if the British shipoWners, whereas
. 1
what Government has to consider is, not the case
Of the shipowners, but that of the nation. The
.que4i.On is a national question of the broadest
ckaracter, and must not be decided by the inte-
rests of any class, however influential." This
mode of argument, however,. is more. plausible
than iciun..: d. 2., The Britisknartion is made ..up..of
British interests; and it - is the duty :.,ttf /the
Government,_ acting on behalf of the nation,-to
.defend*those interests agitinst injuries and oppres-
,l f.J , i I, , -1.
stons. • The -fact of the Government gobig to war
'isql'Ot,a, '4'ilid .reagon 'for leaving the shipping of
tl 'country* expOstd- to. daligera'l4hilst in the
'p'eacettil- pursuit
.of its, trade.. The question ;is
asked, "can we, occupying such a position as we
, __ _ .

do, safely, or with advantage to:ourselves, forego
the pOwer of
~excluding our enemies from .•the
highway of the seas?" And; it is abswered the
Inegatiiie. But the 'real questign is, shall. our
inerchant shipping be'enclangered at sea,Armigh
the Gov=ernment seeking to obtain what is both
an unjustifiable, and ;an.-unittainable. object ?
We certainly think not, :‘::

The apology Of the. Foreign. Minister of Ranee,
T. Thouvenel; to Europe, that although appear-
ances are undeniably. against his Imperial. master;
after the: Savoy affair, he is only anxious to :pre-:
serve 'peace, to restore confidence, to respect
treaties, to reduce his armaniepts,,anci to liv.ein
amity with his neighbours, would. seem ,to.have
Seen received, if not credulously, yet tolerably
omplaceptly. Of course the assurances it con-
tains are: taken at their true value ; and that ,
‘annot be great, after what has just , occurred.
4.l:!Poearanceir--and• more than appearances:—are
oeitainitagainst the Imperial schemer of France ;
yet iffi indrilSrui probable that Europe, just
110 W, would rather ,seem to. believe in what ke•
saAT:tha2.l4isP4te.,with-,' and clory_. , ":We
*ould fain hope, with the Morning Herald, that'l
‘i it may .be the temporary rest will suffice to
recall:Europe:to *dangers and its ,obligations ;"
though -"it. may be that the jealousies created
and kept alive by Napoleon will 'prove as disas-
taus as tlly,.4id, fifty: years ago." But as for.
4Rglf.4, - utore-especially-r." if the, eyes of ,ptir,
statesmen have been really opened—if the under-
standing with France,,znaintained at the expense
'Ol Our relations with every other state, ianctnally
at7tWe;a4—there is ground .for hope .that the
wrest is-past. :We have been deceived once, but
we are 'hardly 'likely to beCome the victims of
Splpeed..cOnfidepce in Louis Nai.oleon;again."
Let _us, .we-say; hope not. For it ought, after the
lessoni we have recently learned—it ought ,to
take ti far longer repose thin ImPerial neces-
-iftleraii-pein-43476rivinCe, the. Englisii nation
that the Empire of Peace is established upon the
ruins of the Treaty,of Vienna, or that sham fights
at Chalons and Helfaut Will loin satisfy the
'aspiratio',ns Of an army whichlas' such an exalted
estimation of iti:own,prowess land knosxs its awn
ppwei• as that of France." . ;-• •-r
There is rather exciting intelligence from'
Naples. " FactiOns persons, the telegraphic
aeoounts say, have attacked the king's troops at
-14alerino ; but it is _stated ilibit‘ailants were at
,once, and bravely, repulsed and: dispersed, amid
cries, that the, city vas immediately.
restored tOLtranquillity. This,._.oL.coarse, is the
NOapolitan Government'd version of the affair.
must be further accounts before, we can
judge of it correctly. • , ,
The attempted insurrection in Spain appears to
have turned out a miserable affair. The troopS
seem- to have been deceived by General Oretego,
and upon their refusing to follow him, after
having ascertained his real object, he took to
flight his owtt -troops pursuing him.
capture was expected. The
,troops have since
made their submission to the Queen.

The overland Indian mail has brought a variety
of interesting news, though none of it of parti-
cular importance now having beon, in
.great
part, anticipated by telegraph. The §tgemeutis.
Confirmed of Mr. Wilson's financial scheme having
:bean receive ,in,all the Presidencies
They merchants are stated, moreover, to have
expressed much satisfaction with- the Anglo-
French Treaty—anticipating an extension of
their .transactions bwith France, especially in
L•llll63ll.iid
sr wow,

•'We learn from .Paris, that the seiiure of the
despatches -whieh '• M. Veuillot brought from,
Rome- fir. the Papal Thincio,. but which, were
afterweas.iestored tO, that. functidaryrhas-not-
yet disttirbed in any sensible degrg the relations
betweeti the- Court of France :and the Pope; and
as the Papal excommunication doei hot, it appears,
apply to France---:or, at any rate, as it is not yet
having the effect, as.)i.t.is in Turin, of breaking off
the diplpiaatic relations between the, Sovereign
'Pontiff: and the Emperbr,—it is • elpected that
things will remain much .as they are. +ilt, -

There was a report prevalent in London lagt
evening that the Emperor of the French ..has had
severe attack of paralysis, but•that it hr nl

Lysis, h Las only
affected-the use of.one of his legs. Dr. Ferguson
of London was telegraphed for, and, it was
mrderstood, had gone to PaiiS...
>. • • . •_ . .

ONE of our. country's and of all Christendom's.
holiday times is again at hand. Time's revOln
fion has brought us near to another Eastertide,
which ever 'since England knew .anything of
Christianity- . has . been a holiday season. Nay,
loUg-before was it,sueh., though from another and'
an infinitely inferior cause. The4enerable -BEDE-
relates that thename of Easter was given to the:
great .ChriStian festival it denotes, at the time
,wheti Christianity Was first intredueed among our
SaxotranceStiirs in this islands from the cirenna,-
stance having. been -accustomed;'
.as
.heathenOti Celebrate -every year,* this season, ,
the feast_ of ,an imaginary deity_ that they_w_or7_
shipped, called Bostre and that .
remained When..the worship wasUltered: Another.-
accbunt Qf the _origin of the term, we. are aware,
uat Easter is derived froth an old Saxon word
"signifying..rising—Easter-day,ihns ..denoting the ,
.414 of resurrection: But bethis.as it may, there
-is no question' that it is'a holiday .time of very
ancient -data in .pik4tlid,—and long may it con-
time to be such' ; for as toils. and the s of:
tl4s life seem to inerease, both in 'amount -and,
intensity, with what is called " the progress" of
the ,a e,uit isi~all the more requisite that some
ctirrediVe Or that kind ihthild'be provided, alike
for the .mental and the physical relief •of our
teeming. pnpubitions,f !:'Polslightly parody a pas-
_sage of. One Of .the'great moral writers of even: a.
-past generation, when.. them-was—by no -means,
au Ch urgent need. of relaxation, and recreation as
tiare iSsin'this our tiine, "'holidays'are the most
-properly 'applied to
_ease and relieve those whO
are oppressed* by being top much , employed.
Those that are idle have.no need of them, and yet

they, above all others, give themselves .fip to
Ahem; To, unbend, our thoughts when they. are

too much stretched by :OUT cares, is nqt more
natural than it is necessary but to .tlirn our
whole life into a holiday is not 'only ridiculous,
but destroyeth- pleasure instead of promoting it"
Not for those; 6wever, who thuS 'reverse the
natural and necessary order of things do we advo:
-mite hblidays, bUt only roi those'whose life 'is too
much and too incessantly a, scene of unrelieVed
confinement, or unmitigated labour-i-those, in a
wptd, " wh9 are appressed. by being too much
employed,"=and whose. name is legion, for they
are many ; akow:iding in every walk of and
in all directions around us.

We have alluded, on this occasion, more espe-

GENERAL ORETEGA AND THE SPAN9H
7'41" udu TROOPS. • i'l
ALIRDID,ApriI 4.

When the troops became aware that General
Oretega had deceived them as to the object of
_their movements, they refused to march 'to his
cry of " Viva la reina." The general took to
flight, accompanied by four persons, of whom
nothing is known, and was pursued by his own
troops. Hopes are entertained that • General
Oretega will be captured. The troops whom he
misled made their submission to the Queen on
the arrival of General Cerada. Tranquillity reigns
in the Balearic Isles. No agitation prevai:s
throughout the nation. All the deputies 'at
Madrid have presented an address expressing
their devotion to the Queen.