The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-05-05 00:00:00

the Ocean.

Harvey Birch, Nelson,
New York
Elizabeth, Clcgg ktrica
Time Gebroders, Ruttar,

Narva
Busy, Walters, Newfoundland
Catherina, Liddeman ...Narva
Samaritan, Small... Melbourne
Guerricaux, Abuitt ...Havana
Polly, Levers Gib ml tar
Emelie, Johansen... Christiana
Haabet, Dick Narva
Emmeline, Asplett, Vera Cruz
Prosper, Jones - Genoa
Ottowa, Oats Halifax

FOREIGN PORTS.

Jessie Brown, from Melbourne-at Sydney.
Maid of Judah, Gladiolus, Leaping Water, E. Oliver, Agin-
court, Gertrude and Keet, from London at Melbourne. •
Sarah Ellen, Hopkins, William 3.llGomm, M'Credie,tenee
at Galatz. . .
Albanian (s.s.) Pot*, htmice at Naples. '
Crimean (s.s.) Glovero Mary Ellen, ,Meyler, hence at Leghorn.
Brazanza (s.s.) from London at Opdito.
SPOKEN. •
Walkington, April 2, off Malaga. •
fr- - -li, A' 1'22 41 15 W

_ .
Emily, from: London for Rio Jauciro, Aprils, N
'1 hankful, Alexandria for Channel, April 14
. 38 N... 15 W.
by the Eclipse.
A barcfne-rigged screw-Steamer, steering west by
south, April 11
Aurora, bound south, Marreh 28 ' lB 8...23 W.
John Tueker, bound north-west, March 4 :s6 8...79 W.
Lancashire, Newport for C. Good Hope, Mar. 24 22 8...28 W.
Laughing Water, Callao for Cork, March 27 21 8...28 W.
Montero 11, Rio Janeiro for Lisbon, April 6 1 N... 31 W.
Nankin, Callao for. Bordeaux, Apr 1 20 . ... 39 N... 32 W.
Zeboah, Callao for Cork, March 6 • 5B 8...74 w.
• by•the Lightning.

Anna Maria, Madras for London, Feb. 11 3l 5...34 E.
Belle, Gaboon for Liverpool, April 23 5l N::.20 W.
New York Packet. April 23 5l N... 52 'W.
by the Maid.

Independence (American ship), April 4
by the Pole Star.
Stewart, Batavia for Amsterdam, 134 days out 56 N... 13 W.
by the Catheriaa.
. :

, Anne Melhuish, bound north, March 7
Ellen, Rio Grande for Falmouth, April 16 30 N... 40 W.
'attar. Robinson, Bombay for Liverpool, April 20— 31 N... 38 W.
Itiroac, hence for Callao, March 10 24 , 8...37 W.
st. Vitus, April 24, off the Lizard, by the Susanna.
Vocalist, hence (supposed), bound round the Horn,
March 10 12 5...32 W.
William Wilson, Bombay for Liverpool, April 18 30 N... 40 W.
• OUTPORTS.
• Julia, Williams, from Mobile, off Queenstown.
Inca (s), hence at Holyhead for Brazils.
Scawfell, from,Foo.chow in the Channel.
Vicar of Bray, Davies, from Callao off Bridport.
• • Bride of the ziess, from China off Portland.
Agamemnon, from Calcutta for London, off Portland. -
Ellen Frederick, Uecker, from Stettin at Waterford.
Port Kinds, sailed from Belfast for Revel. '
• FALMOUTII, May .4,--Arrived : ••Cresemisio, Albizuri,' from
Havannah ; Don Juan, Arrotegui, Havannah ; Ida, Ohiscia,
Cavalla. - Off : Avon, West Indies; S'Ophia, Leghorn, for
Copenhagen.
QuEr.Nsrowv,, May..4.—Arrived:-Atlantic, Morgan, from.
Liverpool for Barcelona, leaky ; Folkestone, Gunderson, Porto'
Rico; Rival, Vorwell, Odessa for Liverpo6l.• Off : Julia, from
Mobile.
Qszaxoc,a,.3lay Augusfina Clara, from Cha.

THE DAY'S NEWS.

•
There is another fuior against bribery at
Elections beginning to preiail, even among those
who are themselves, or many of
.them, by
.no
means free from the taint of such corruption, in
their own election experiences. Not only is the
borough of Berwick-on-Tweed, like Wakefield
and Gloucester, to undergo the fiery ordeal of a
Com Mission of Inquiry into its naughtiness in
that way, but one of the election agents there is
to be made the victim of a Government prose-
cution for perjury before the Election Committee
of the House of Commons in the case of the late
disputed return,—and, more than this, and still
more fearful, the actual bribers at Wakefield are
actually to be prosecuted by her Majesty's
Attorney-General, including; it is said, nzirabile
dictu ! Mr. Leathern himself, Mr. John Bright's
brother-in-law and compatriot though he be. Of
this latter of intelligence,' however, we
must confess that we are. somewhat sceptical.
And yet it will be altogether a farce unless he, as
a notorious briber; be included in such' a ,prose-
outran"; if any such is really to take place. As
was well remarkedon,:the Opposition' side of the
House the other these
eomniissioni was -merely :a7 screen to a fault
which they desired to' Perpettrate—at least it
would be so looked upon' by the country, which
was sick of this hypocrisy ; for if they wanted
to stop bribery it must be by something more
than commissions. What would they do with
this commission if they got it ? Would they
unseat the sitting members ? That was an absur •
dity.. Wotild they reverse the decision of 'the
committee ? That would be an insult to the
committee." Of course if would. • And yet, if
strict and severe, justice,be done, virtually reverse
it they must. Nay, if strict, and severe justice is
to be done, generally and impartially; how.many •
, other seats are there that must be "vacated on
similar grounde—,-how many more boroughs' are
there that require.cominissions of inquiry? 10)w
many hon. members, too, are there, representing
Such boroughs, that require to be prosecuted ?
This is the point. It is not so much the 'poor
elector who is tempted with a bribe, and whose
poverty rather than his will, perhaps, consents,
as it is the rich candidate, like Mr. Bright's
brother-in-law, who tempts and corrupts him. The,
House of Commons must begin these prosecutions
among its own members. There, as everywhere
else, reformation, like charity, must begin at
home.

Yesterday the Times made another of its
,Tump-jint- Crow performances. Now that the
House of Commons, as it pretends, has "affirmed
the main principles of the Reform Bill,"—though
we deny that it has really done anything of the
kind,—it is all right ;. whereas hitherto, ever
sine the measure was introduced, it has been all
wrong! All the dangers. Which the leading but
vacillating journal saw in it but the day before,
are now dispersed by the magical act of a relue-
tant assent to its being read a second time !
HoWever mischievous it might be befoie,:,--alid
none of its critics have expesed and deaeUt'eccf ita

mischievous character so forcibly as they of
Prin tin gn ous liiireVAlleerch to be
perfectly safe an4',.;lnnoctiotis,- '`..5.11641.11 the
Refornlcd Parliumiitt," it is observed, " re:Nit
• a: 1.
very *4157 sani.e men that'jiiid paised the
r7f) •
Reforin..llill, we shall neither be..,displeyed nor
surprise l Soule mange there tilivays,4-,-=,more
•
generally tilt*:is .expected; nor wilt:there be
much more, NiiciVentgre to pre4ictiat the General
Election of 1861 or 1862." go that, according to
this, the Bill about which so much fuss is made
will be utterly ineffective, and is therefore worse
than needless. 0, but, it is affectedly said,
" there,will be increased confidence and satisfac-
tion ; perhaps, too, an increased sense of reponsi-
bility on the part of the representatives." "What
stuff! What chaff to scatter to a gullible multi-
tude! And what gross venality, moreover, on
the part of a public journal which all along has
been telling, us,: that so far from being. calculated
to produde "'increased confidence and satisfaC-
tion," it must shake all confidence, and give no
satisfaction whatever !

If there be any truth—and it is still believed
there is—in the rumour of a secret alliance
between France and Denmark—;one of its objects,
or pretexts, being to aid-the Danish Government
in its 'claims in Schleswig, as- opposed to those of
Prussia7—the project will be very likely to receive
encouragement frOna what is reported to have
fallen from the Prussian Minister of Foreign
Affairs in the Chamber of Deputies a few days
since. " Having in view the present state of
things in Schleswig," were the Minister's words
.9 the Federal Diet could hardly neglect any
further its duty of examining what Germany is
entitled to demand in consequence of the conven-
tions concluded in 1851 and 1852,"—emphati-
cally adding, " We cannot accept the acts of
Denmark as a fulfilment of the obligations she
has undertaken. Prussia takes the interest of
the Gerrhan Duchies to heart, and both as a
Federal and as a European Power she will do for
them all that lies in her power." Nov this is
just what Denmark does not wish Prussia to do;
and not only does the French. Emperor sym-
pathise with Denmark, but he would be but too
glad, it Is supposed,•of the opportunity of inter-
fering in her behalf, and thereby humiliating
Prussia.

The case of Sicily is again becoming most
alarming. We expressed our apprehension only
yesterday, that the atrocities committed by the
royal troops—of course in pretended support of
the royal cause—would not improbably recoil upon
the royal party; that a day would come when
revenge would have to' be satisfied, and retribu-
tion to be obtained. And already is this coming
to pass. Later accounts report that the insurrec-,
tion has again broken out. And if it be true'
that Garibaldi has arrived in the island—with
some reinforcements, too, for the insurgent forces
—there would seem to be a certainty of the con-
flict becoming more fearful than ever, and very
little doubt of its finally issuing in Sicilian inde-.
pendence.

The Queen and her Royal Consort seem deter-.
mined that, in the case of. Prince Alfred, it shall
not be said he found any " royal road" to the
naval promotion towards which he is advancing.
The youthful sailor-Prince is again at his post, as
a " middy" of the Euryalus. He rejoined his
ship at Portsmouth the day before yesterday, and
is by this time on his way to the Cape of Good
Hope.
Further large arrivals of gold from Australia,
it will be seen, may in Vie course of the next few
weeks be expected. Advices have come to hand
that considerably over half-a-million's worth was
shipped from Melbourne towards the end of
FebruarY and the beginning of March. , 7
The French Emperor,_ fit. will be. seen, is still
going on improving the efficiency of his navy.
He has just caused a bill to be introduced to the
Legislative Chamber, increasing the number of
Admirals to twelve, and of Vice-Admirals to
twenty-four.
The Pope, it appears, is going to have a for-
midable military force placed in an effective state
of organisation under General Lamoriciere. But
not, it is deelared, to act against' the Romag-
nas,—for the present, at least. The devotion
of the people to their new Sovereign shows,
indeed, that there can be no hope of his Holiness
recovering dominion there.

THE fact of the Reform Bill having passed a
second reading without a division,- although not
until the debate had demonstrated it as a great
nuisance to the House, is one of deep significance.
Hero is a measure which at least two-thirds of
the House, we will be bound to say, in their
inmost hearts, are decidedly averse to ; and yet
such is the state of the case, through the machi-
nations of faction, they did not dare openly to
oppose its progress. We are rather inclined to
concur with Mr. GLADSTONE, that, with so much
evident dislike to the Bill, it would have been
much more statesmanlike and dignified a proceed-
ing to have rejected it at once, rather than
attempt so crooked a device as that of wearing it
out by delay. But then he was not the man to
complain of so devious a course—he who has
himself furnished so striking an illustration of
such courses. Not

" The devious paths where Wanton fancy treads,"—
but those which have to be trod where one falls
into political tergiversation and. apostasy. And
his. speech on this very occasion only serves •to
illustrate still more deplorably the degrading
depths of such a fall,—a speech that might have
become a life-long Radical like Mr. BRIGHT, but
could do
_no credit to one who has hitherto pro-
fessed to be a Conservative like Mr. GIADSTONE,
and who has thereby only shown how dexterous,
yet opprobious, is his aptitude.to • . ,

"Change shapes, with Protons, for advantageS."-

In considering ,stich.a pleasure, as :the
,Reform
Bill, it is important to bear in mind what are the
circumstances under which it -has been brought
forward, and who it is that claims to' be its
author. The circumstances, then, were certainly
not such as could conduce to the propriety, let
alone the perfection of such a Bill. Remember,
it is a Bill that disturbs the very foundations of
the Constitution itself. Its avowed object, indeed,
is to admit a larger infusion of the democratic
element into the Constitution than ever was con-
templated 'Under its provisions, Or than ever can
be compatible with ifs principles.' 'One great
object, of. the British COnstitution is to maintain
a balance of political power in the realm ; and
doubtless 'to this is mainly - attributable the
stability of Our political institutions, and the
safety of our. political progress. The Constitu-
tion of no country has ever lasted so long is that
of England ; and in no other country has there
been so much popular liberty enjoyed, with so
much constitutional privilege preserved. But
now, by this Bill, it is proposed so to alter, so to
deteriorate; the representation of the people in
Parliament, as will have the effect of deranging
the whole system of legislation and governance—
of upsetting the balance of political power—of
giving an overwhelming influence to the demo-
cracy of the country. And this is to be done,
because it was found requisite to bargain that it
should be done, in order that a Conservative
Ministry might' be overthrown, and a Whig-
Liberal Ministry put in its stead! The Whigs
could no longer restrain their greed
Of place;
and to recover it they did net scruple to barter
away all that was constitutional in-the Principle°
pro-
fessed, and to commit themselves to a franchise
to a
give a prePondentine of 'power.
of Parliamentary Reform therhad hitherto
so. low as to
Class-of Parliamentary electors more vicious, and
s
therefore more ifaitgettlik,
than has erryet been

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entrusted with so serious a responsibility. It is
not that the element itself which such a class
contains in so great intensity is to be altogether
excluded from our representative system. But
it is an clement which can never, in a monar-
chical form of Government, be suffered to have
the preponderance,—simply because it would
thereby become destructive of the whole monarch-
ical system. It were a strange anomaly, there-
fore, to find men who have been placed in the
position of constitutional advisers of the Crown,
and administrators of the affairs of a Monarchy,
thus lending themselves to the enactment of a
measure so directly calculated to demolish that
Crown, and destroy that Monarchy. But they
could not gain their factious ends without it.
The party whose support . was essential to the
success of their assault on the Administration of
. Lord Derby, would not aid them much unless
they pledged themselves to a measure thus revo-
lutionary and -destructive. Such are 'plainly and
positively the circumstances of the ease ; and
they are such, it will be admitted, as must at
least create a suspicion of any measure of Reform
brought forward under the obligations they in-
volve—were there no other reason for apprehen-

sion and mistrust.
Then see who it is that claims to be the author
of the Bill. Lord JOHN RUSSELL,' who, during
the whole of his public life has been playing the
game of faction. IVell, and timely is it said of
him, in one of the periodicals of the current
month, that "popularity- and place have evidently
been the end of his small ambition from the first—
to combine these under the head of power, and in
his own person, his only aim ; and we find him,
consequently, always on terms of friendship with
time and the hour,' as might be expected. He
has frequently succeeded in consummating his
hopes by the acquisition of power ; but with how
paltry a result ! Success has always halted on
the threshold of power. • He- has been feared
by none, save for his power to do mischief.",*,
* Constitutional Tress Magazine.

Again, on the same authority we have it shown
that " popular clamour—ever more dependent for
continuance upon the vigour of some interested
demagogue, and consequently in its nature and of
necessity, spasmodic and unhealthy, and purely
temporary in its influence—was always potent
with Lord JOHN RUSSELL. • The possibility of a
present danger he has ever been ready to predict
and 'picture, to announce and fear ; the people,
therefore have been led at times to denominate
him as a friend—for he not only Yields`_ tb their'
demands, and undertakes to aid any cause, no
matter how black it may be, provided it
presents itself to his attention backed up by a
demonstration; but, by such a course, he also
helps to raise democratic self-assumption and
and ignorant self-esteem to an intolerable degree.
The working classes,' as the phase is, are still,
and always have been, the greatest terror of his
mind; because, from the first, he lacked the fore-
sight to discriminate between the tramp of a
tipsy rabble, and the steady measured tread of
assured, power ; and he has ever been ready to
effect a compromise with disaffected ignorance,
and to purchase immunity from its threats of
violence by sacrifices of the nation's rights, and
subtle underminings of the Constitution." Such
is the author of the Ministerial. Reform Bill,—
only Ministerial because he and his confederates
'could not get into their places without commit-
ting themselves to it—many of them, as is well
known, directly contrary to their principles, and
therefore quite against their consciences. Well
may even the Ministerial patty in Parliament be
averse to, and unwilling to indorse, a measure
thus originating, and coming from hands so
prostituted.

Perhaps the severest—as certainly it is the
jusiest—denuneiation of Lord JOHN and his ugly
bantling, was that which Lord LYNDHURST could
not refrain from giving expression to in the House
of Lords the other evening, in his extraordinarily
powerful and most seasonable speech on ourpresent
national insecurity. " Lastly, my lords," said
this venerable peer, " a noble lord in the other
House of Parliament, not finding sufficient ern-
‘ ployment for his energies in watching the course
of events in Europe, which require all his atten-
tion and all his powers of mind, moved by a
spirit of restless mischief, living only in troubled
waters, has thought it right at this moment to
bring forward a measure for the purpose of
opposing one class of the community to another,
and entirely remodelling our Constitution at a
moment when all men ought to come forward in
its support, as I trust they will do." No severer,
yet juster, reproof, we say, could, in so few but
weighty words, have been given, than this, of
the character and tendency of this measure. And
it is an exposure of it that puts the whole matter
in its true light. The measure itself is one of
"restless mischief "—as well as this being the
spirit by which its factious author has been
moved. But in this, as in 1 former perils, there
will doubtless be presented to the nation an
occasion to reiterate once more the grateful
exclamation—" Thank God, we have a House of
Lords !"

THE FRAUDS ON THE UNION BANK.

The examination of Pullinger was resumed yesterday,
at the Mansion-house. Mr. Wm. Gomm, cashier of the
bank, deposed that on April 12th, on balancing the notes
in the tills of the cashiers, he found there was £350
deficient. The prisoner told him that he had had the
money out on miscellaneous bills, and gave the number
of the notes of which that £350 consisted, and also a
memorandum of the deficiency.—The next witnesses
were Mr. James Sheldon and Mr. Robert Johnston,
members of the Stock Exchange. To one of them pri-
soner had paid £l5O on the 12th April, and to the other
£2OO on the same day.—Two clerks from different
banking houses proved that the notes paid in by Mr.
Sheldon and Mr. Barton bore the same numbers as the
notes comprised in the deficiency, and which numbers
had been given: to Mr. Gomin by 'the prisoner on the 12th
April.—Mr. Barton, a clerk in the Union Bank, kept
the accounts of all sums paid into the Bank of England.
On the authority of a docket in the prisoner's hand-
writing the £3.50 was set clOwn as having been paid into
the Bank of England on the 12th April.—A clerk from
the Bank of England proved that there was no entry of
£350 having been paid into that bank on the day in
question.—The prisoner, in reply to whether he wished
to ask the witnesses any questions, said "No ; I do not
wish to give any trouble."—His Lordship, after saying
it was his intention to commit him for trial, also asked
the prisoner if he had anything to say, to which a reply
in the negative was given. The depositions having been
read • over, the prisoner was committed for trial.—
Frederick Lyttleton, late a clerk in the Union Bank,
was then placed by the side of Pullinger in the dock,
arid both were arraigned upon a charge of stealing £3,000.
Mr. Lewis, by the wish of Pullinger, appeared for ,
Lyttleton. Pullinger pleaded guilty; Lyttleton was
discharged,' and the Lord Mayor told him that he would
leave the court with a character as unstained as when
he 'entered it.

BETT!NO.—A singular wager was made in Chicago
on the day before the municipal election in that city.
Wentworth and Gurney were the opposing candidates
for the Mayoralty. The bet was between a Water-
street merchant and Ned Osborne, of the Tremont
House, the largest cigar and tobacco dealer in the. city,
and was to the effect that if Wentworth was not elected,
Osborne should have the privilege of kicking the
Water-street merchant aforesaid from the Tremont
House to Springer-street. The day after the elec-
tion, the merchant having lost, came to Osborne's.sttor(ei
and presented his person to him for the eontempelaL
kicks, and demanded that Osborne should ta
k
stakes. Osborne had been training hisprbigah right leg
all the
mvy
day previous, previous, and had ared-his
u foot
hide boot, with soles as thick asuclta Osborne delivered a
bi‘m;ds. The incr.
Y
chant started up by the Tremont,
drew back his foot with ae
m
heavy kick as he started, but
spasmodic" action, _
and
paroxysm of countenance
li_abso-
lutely pitiful. ]lo tdried another one, but the loser
flinched not, and kept leisurely on his way undis-
turbed by a volley he had received. The result of this
was
„I r
and
dt hhao, tl -yea
?alay; heao n
.I:emerchant
ofairlyu tcau r l c
eu ps
St
atko onpe
pst
he
ed
and
round
enquired, h
What in the devil have you got in theke basement of
your pants ?" cried Ned. " bricks," shouted
the merchant, " and we arn't within a mile Springer-
street yet." Osborne subsided, paid the champagne,
and has been Wearing a list slipper ever sinee.—Beak
Repubitc. • • •

LATEST
.NEWS.

BY ERI TISK AND IRISH MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH•'

INDIA.

The following telegram, without date, has been
received at the India Office to-day :—The Gover-
nor-General's camp will break up on the 10th
instant, and the Governor-General and the Com-
Mandee-inrChief will reach Simla on the 11th.
Government i per Cent. Loan, 43- to 41 discount
Five and a Half per Cent. Loan, at 2 to 2i per
Cent. premium.

BRAZILIAN MA:ILS.
SOITHAMP TON, May 4•

The Magdalena, Capt. Woolwazil, has arrived.
Her dates are Buenos Ayres, 29th, *March; Monte
Video, Ist April; Rio Janeiro, Bth..; Bahia; 12th;
Pernambuco, 14th ; St. Vincent, 21. 2nd ; and Lis-
bon, 30th. She brings 155 passer tgers,. £27,080
in specie, and also diamonds said :to be of large
value.

The Mersey left Rio Janeiro for R iver Plate On
the Bth ult. V The Oneida left St. Vincent for the
Brazils on the 20th April.
Political news unimportant.

At Buenos Ayres during the month there has
been a great accession of business generally, in
both imports and exports. Deniand for produce
languid, owing to advancing prices.

Cattle were improving in condition, and higher
rafts were demanded. Money plentiful.

Sales of hides, 4,500 at 61 to 651; wool, 100
to 115. Demand slack. Freights unchanged.
Doubloon, $349 to $353. Bahia cotton for
export, Bh. oOqs. Anoba Coffee quiet, oh. 800.
Cocoa brisk demand, 4h. 400; superior, 4h. 600.
Sugar 3h. Exchange, 25 to 25.
Pernambuco sugar receipts falling off.. Brown,
200 rs. lower. Exchange negotiated at 251 to
251, 251 to 26. Freights to Liverpool : Sugar►.
15 ; Cotton, 7 to 16.