The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-05-28 00:00:00

SHIPS TO SAIL FROM LIVERPOOL FOR THE
PRINCIPAL PORTS THIS MONTH.

Destination.
EAST Ltzus :
Colombo, Ceylon ....
trxrrEn STATES:
Neyf TOrk Vigo (SS)
NORTE AMERICA
Quebec and Montreal North Briton (se) ..
SOITTIE ASIERTCA :
Rio de Janeiro Portugal (3s) ..
Valparaiso Lady Ebrington
FRANCE :
Ilayre

Ship's Name.

.Coni3tcn

.May 30

.Balbec (se)

ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE

BENEFICES AND APPOINTMENTS VACANT,

CANONRY.
In the Cathedral Church of Cheater val. £5OO pat. Bishop
of Chester : Rev. J. blade, dec.
DEANERY.
Ardagh : pat. Ale Crown : Very Rev. H. U. Tighe, D.D
prom.

RECTORIES.
prom.
£COS with residence
Bennington, He,rts din. Rochester : val.
ArcistLgh : pat. the Crown : Very Rev. H. U. Tighe, D.D.,
sh, Suffolk : dio. Ely : y4l. £733 with residence : pat.
Jesus College, Cambridge : Rev. 7. Castlev, dec.
pate.
pats. Repres. of the late R. Rye : Rev. F. B. Pryor, dec.
Cavendish,
Feniton, Devon: dio. Exeter : val. £372 with residence :
C. Flood, G. B. Northcote, and Wrolley, Esq., alt. Rev.
H. E. Head, dec.
Kirkby,
pat.
B ilsNh' West, ,
ofco.
VICARAGES.
.RCelave.s
jte.rs:lavdael:
dEe7cd.3 with residence :
ha ne
sdt edri
Maidenhead, Berks ; dio. Oxford : val. £172 with residence :
pat. E. F. Maitland, Esq.: Rev. J. Kriollis, dec.
Marcham, Berke : clio. Oxford : val. £455 with residence : pats.
Christ Church, Oxford: Rey. H. J. Randolph, dec.
Tenbury, Worcestershire : die. Hereford : val. £9OO with
residence : pats. Trustees : Rev. J. Churton, dec.
J. G. Yarburgh, Esq.: Rev. M. W. Barstow, res.
PERPETUL CURACY.
Rawcliffe : co. and dio. York: £123 ivith residence: pat.
CUACIES.
Ashton li.eynes, Wilts : dio. R
Gloucester and Bristol.
Corshatn, Wilts dio. Gloucester and Bristol.
Ipswich, St. Helen, Suffolk : dio. Norwich.
Nottingham St. Nicholas dio. Lincoln : stipend £lOO.
Bopley, Hants : dio. Winchester : stipend £lOO.
Yarmouth, Great, St. Nicholas : stipend geo with title.
PRINC/PALSIIIP.
Norwich Diocesan Training School : Rev. A. B. Power, prom.
MASTERSHIPS.
Aylesbury Grammar School : pats. Trustees : Rev. T. Gwynn,
prom.
Batley Free School: salary £l5O with house and garden.
Bristol Grammar School : Head Mastership : must be a mem-
, ber of a Vniversity and M.A.
_

Marlborough College : Assistant Mastership : E. L. Brown, dec
SECRETARYSHIP.
Additional Curates Society : Travelling for province of York
testimonial.; before June 4.

The Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada's
traffic for the week ending May sth amounted to
£12,396 Os. 11d., being an increase as compared with the
corresponding week last year of £2,754 12s 6td.
" A Bra FLY."—Charlie (to his mischief-loving little
brother some two years old) : " Brother, what's that
79u've got there" Walter: " Me's got a big fly,—
look her:'" (holding up something vigorously sprawling
with its long iega to escape from his little fingers).
Charlie "Why, you st4pi,3. little fellow, that's a cock-
roach:" Walter (delighted, as if a hew idea had struck
his juvenile mind) : "Oh my ! come into the nureery—
me's got lots of them there, with their skins of !" The
nursery floor was found strewn with expiring cockroaches,
deprived Qf their legs find outer coverings

THE DAY'S NEWS.

It was not to be expected that Mr. Bright
would like the prosecution of his immaculate
brother-in-law, Mr. Leatham, for bribery. But
one was scarcely prepared to expect that he
would stand up in his place in Parliament and
defend that gentleman's conduct. It may be
quite true that Mr. Leatham made the fullest

disclosures on the faith of assurances that a certi-
ficate would be given to exempt him from prose-

cution. That would not, however, by any means,
make his conduct defensible. We quite agree
with the Attorney-General, that "if the House
did not follow up the steps it had already taken,
it would be guilty of a solemn mockery, and lay
itself open to the charge of organised hypocrisy."
There can be no doubt, we believe, that, as the
•
learned gentleman added, it would have a very
bad effect in this case if, with all the materials
for a successful prosecution, the house interfered
to prevent it. Of course, if Mr. Leatham was
assured he would not be prosecuted, and made
his disclosures--erirninating himself—on that
assurance, he has been very badly used. The
Attorney-General's excuse is, that " the Act
expressly gave the power of refusing a certificate
to the persons who gave evidence, and that was
the only ground which he would recognise." But
they yfho gave Mr. Leatham his assurance ought
to protect him. •

In considering the case of the two Houses of
Parliament, with reference to the rejection of the
Paper Duty Repeal Bill by the Lords, it ought
not to be forgotten, that Ministers themselves are
the primary cause of the misunderstanding that
has arisen. They ought to have taken care not
to have furnished their Lordships with so good
and sufficient a reason for the course they have
deemed it their duty to take. A Bill was submit-

ted to the House of Lords, for which Ministers
are entirely responsible, making a large sacrifice
of revenue at a time when far more revenue is
likely to be required for the necessities of the
State than there is any due provision for ; and the
House, therefore, under this conviction, refused

its consent to that Bill. The Select Committee
of the Commons which Lord Palmerston has got
appointed to search for precedents is, we dare
say, a very proper course in itself,—too proper,
it is evident, for such democratic spirits as Mr.
John Bright and Mr. Edwin James, who have
urged the Premier to say at once whiat he intends
to do—and to do it at once,—that is to say, if it
should be anything subversive of the constitu-
tional privileges of the other House. " All the
precedents of the House," the Radical member
for Ivlarylebone declared, " were in favour of
immediate action, and he called upon the Ministry
to declare definitely what they intended to do ;"
while the Republican representative of Birming-
ham warned them, that "although as yet there
had been no great expression of public opinion,
yet, in a feW days, general dissatisfaction would
be manifested." All this is designed to drive
Ministers into some violent course. Another pro-
posal, it would be seen, was not to prorogue Par-
liament until November, when the six months
shall have expired, to which the resolution of the
House of Loral+ respecting the second reading of
the Bill extends,—and when, as Mr. Duncombe,
in moving it as an amendment, observed, "it
would be competent for the Lords. -to consider
whether a different decision ought to be arrived
at." But this, as Lord John Russell showed,
"the House could not constitutionally accede to,
for it trenched upon the ' undisputed prerogative
• of the Crown in proroguing Parliament ;"—a con-
sideration, however, which the Radicals don't
care anything about. There is no doubt, in short,
that Lord Palmerston's course of proceeding is the
right one, if the decision of the Lords is to be
questioned at all. But it is only taken, we are
persuaded, for the sake of appearances, and will
have no practical result in the reversal of what
has been done by so large a majority of the House
of Lords.

The Morning Herald says,—and we dare say
very truly—that, " strictly speaking, all doubt
about the privileges of the House of Lords was
removed by Lord Palmerston's speech ;" but that
Ministers found it necessary to do something to
Pacify such of their supporters as were most
deeply wounded by the decision of the Lords,—
something more especially "in order to bind up
the wounds of the Birmingham demagogue, and
to sooth the fury and indignation of the Chancel-
lor of the Exchequer." But our Conservative
contemporary has no apprehension whatever as
to the result. " The committee on the whole," it is
observed, "is very fairly chosen, and is not likely
to perpetuate tfie feeling of jealousy that aow
exists. Mr. Bright knows this, and, is furious.
But in proportion to his disappointment will be
the satisfaction of every prudent politician, and
every lover of peace and order." -
We are gratified to learn that there is to be a
rallying of the Constitutional party shortly, in
the shape of a Conservative Banquet, the apecia

occasion of which is the first anniversary of the
.Conservative Registration Association. The Earl
of Shrewsbury iwto preside, and there is no doubt
that there will be a numerous gathering of hearty
if not enthusiastic Conservatives. It is much to
be regretted that such occasions are not more
frequent. We all remember—or ought to do—
the excellent advice of the good and wise Lord
Eldon, "Gentlemen, dine together oftener ;" and
he said this with particular reference to the. Co-
nstitutional party, of which he was himself so
great an ornament. Our so seldom having the
Opportunity now-a-days, unfortunately, of follow-
ing such admirable advice is only another reason
why, as Conservatives, we ought not to neglect
such an occasion as that which is now forthcoming.
The Sardinian Parliament has had, the treaty
with France, for the annexation of Savoy and
Nice, under discussion. The debate commenced
on Friday, and was continued on Saturday. To-
morrow we shall probably be able to communi-
cate the result.

There is no intelligence yet that is very decisive
of the insurrection in Sicily—no account of the
fall of either Palermo or Messina into Garibaldi's
hands; and one or both must be in the possession
of the insurgent party ere they can be considered
to have made their position quite sure. Garibaldi's
forces were fighting in the immediate neighbour-
hood of Palermo, at the date of the last advices ;
and Messina is described as being " in a state of
gloomy tranquillity." The fate of one of these
cities would probably decide that of the other ;
and when once Garibaldi has raised his standard
on their battlements, he will have become master
of Sicily.