The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-06-01 00:00:00

NOVEMBER.

Scarborough
8,'&o
Newmarket Champion Suffolk 13, &e
Coq itetdule (Open) Northuinberl'd lB

.... Yorkshire 20,.
•
Malt= UniOnClul) &c
Hampton Court Cham Middlesex /0, 21
Alt= Club Lancashire . , 2l, 22, 23
Marhani Club Norfolk 'l, 22, 23
West Herefordshire.— Herefordshire
DECEMBER.

Bridekirk Cumberland. Mr. A. Dalzell 4, 5
Baldock Open Champ. Hertfordshire .:Mr. Warwick 5, &c

THE DAY'S SEWS.

litmenti-afterits-brief recess, re-assembled
la4t evening, and immediately proceeded to the
deipatch of business. • Their lordships do not
appear to have sat. In the House of Coinmons
the Ministry were assailed iith a whole battery
of ' questiOt'S', referring principally to military
matters and the defence of the country. Mr.
Sidney Herbert replied, and the proceedings, for
which we refer to our report, were of the most
interesting • character. The House then went
into CommitteeofiSupply, and, after several bills
had been advanced a stage,, acliourned, shortly
after one o'clock,
..The /Vag or paten:l4Y takes occasion to warn
our legislators of the. vast amount of essential
bUsiness yet to be gOne through in the short
remainder of . the session. The calendar marks
when "grouse shooting begins.," and the adjourn-
ment always takes place in August. The lea&
ing jourilal shows that in the _four months of
the Parliamentary Which' have already
elapsed, the House of Commons has accomplished
two things only. It has passed a considerable
pOrtion of the bills rendered necessary by the large
budget of Mr, Gladstone, and it has very fully
debated the principle of a reduction of the borough
franchise. Asa matter of necessity-, the Reform.
Bill Will tiPpaiently have to be thrown over to
make way fat
_nicasilres imperiously dthnanding
settlement. TEO Census Bill, involving questions
not unlikely to lead to long and angry discussion,
-is, still before. the House. .Only twenty-four
clauses of a Bankruptcy Bill—urgently required
by public opinion—have yet been passed out of
some 500. Something has been done with the
navy estimates, but nothing with any others, and-
* vote of_ credit will have again to be brought

forward.
The -.Mining Herald of yesterday bestows
proper praise upon the - late Ministry for the
sagacity, 'foresight:and public spirit which they
evinced in their cheerful and spontaneous support

of the Volunteer movement, which has now
become so great and gratifying a fact; and it
is well remarked that if Lord Derby and his
friends felt any regret at their premature expul-
sion from office, every circumstance since that
event has combined to relieve and mitigate the
feeling. Turri where we may, we see on every
hand the proofs of success won by their practical
energies and patriotic devotion.

The Corps Legislatif, that poor apology for a
Parliament in France, has. closed its session, and
been adjourned to the 30th of June. Of course
its functions are merely nominal ; so that, -whether
sitting or not, the destinies of France are confided

to the unchecked and undisputed "autonomy" of
Louis Napoleon. The health of Prince Jerome
lionaparte, the Empernr4s-ukciei 15 reported to be
in such a state ae, at his advanced age, to leave
little hopes of his recovery. The latest intelli-
gence from SicilY is contdined in a despatch con-
firmatory of Garibaldis entry into 'Palermo: His
head quarters are described as in the centre of
the town. These are all the details which are
given, beyond the fact that the assault was
of a satiguinaty character, and that the bom-
bardment already reported had lasted for several
hours. The Danish Government has sent a

" very rude" note td Prussia in reference to the
late discussion in the Chambers in respect to
Holstein ; and has received a " polite but firm"
reply. A new device has been hit upon in Russia
for creating a popular feeling in favour of the
assumed designs of the Court. A letter from
Odessa says that pilgrims from Bosnia, Monte-
negro, and Servia, are travelling throughout
Russia, and have excited amongst the population
strong feelings of indignation by the recitals of
the sufferings of the Christians at the hands of
the Turks. The other items of foreign news are
of less than ordinary interest.
The news from various parts of the coast re-
specting the storm of Monday is of a very dis-
tressing character; indeed, it would appear that
the storm almost equalled in severity the fearful
one which occasioned such a terrible loss of noble
ships and precious lives towards the close of last

year. Information has already reached London
of the loss of upwards of one hundred vessels, and
in a very large number of cases the ill-fated
crews also perished. The greatest mischief was
done upon the eastern and north-eastern line of
coast. Several wrecks took place off Yarmouth
In sight of the people on shore, who were unhap-
pily unable to render the slightest assistance.
We'regret to find that the calamities occasioned
by the storm have extended to the shores of the
Continent. A Dutch steamer which had left
:Rotterdam on an excursion trip, foundered with
all on board, numbering eighty souls;. and seve-
kal other serious casualties are reported from that
quarter.

A serious and very singular accident occurred
on Wednesday to an excursion train from Liver-
pool and Manchester, at the London terminus of
the Great Northern Railway. The breaks not
having been properly applied, the engine, with
carriages attached, rushed over the platform and

across the public road. Several of the passen-
gers were injured, and one. it is feared, fatally.
One of the guards .of the train, who is proved to
have been intoxicated at the time, was given into
custody, and has been sentenced to two monthl9
441
imprisonment.i :*
So great #or jealousy 'of re lig J sects
amongst us, that it appears the Consul. Bill,
which we should naturally regard 'as one 'of the
simplest of measures, is likely to provoke.a bitter
Oppositioni ftom the Dissenting .portion of the
community. They -are .to hold a conference. in.
London on the subject, early next week. The
Rev. S. Waddi,- who. is • PreEident of _the...3l7es-
leyan Conferenee, denounces the .billfon the
.
singular ground,---we quote his.oWn WOrds--!that
",it is a miserable attenipt to make it appear that
the. EstablisLed Church is a majority in the
nation." • I) I ••••• r

We7havenever, 'joined in the outcry raised by
some of our local contemporaries in respect to
the bill successfully.pronieted by the Dock Board,..
for impro,iing the approaches to the landing
stages, and increasing the facilities for• the transit
of goods across the river. The object of the clauses
empowering the levy of tolls not being clear on
the face' of the bill, much of the opposition arose
from misapprehension, which, however, we should_
• •
have thouoht had been lona'
• 0 since dispelled by the..
able explanatory speech of Mr. Tobin, in the!
.Council; a short time
- thhe ksult of
inquir7
and Mier • IriPorniatiOn, the Post we
llbrceive, recants its former views upon ,the
matter, and very.fairlyptates the case as follows :,—,
" It is admitted that the George's Landing-stage
is dangerous for the pa.assage of horses, carriages,
handcarts, .barrcls, and boxes of. goods, &c.,
because the passenger traffic has increased enor-
mously during the last four or five years. The
time has arrived when the goods traffic arid.cattle
must be separated from ~the Rassentera to avoid
the risk to life.. - The. Prince's Landirig-stage
is appropriated by act of Parliament to the
sole use of. sea-going steamers, but by the bill
now before the House of Lords 125 feet at
each end of it are appropriated to the use of
ferry steamers, thus giving them the 'use of 250
feet, or one fourth of the entire stage, which they
have no right to expect, and which they cannot
have unless the bill passes. The tolls that are
inserted in the bill are not to • be.. charged
for, the. use - -of the, Jakiding-stages on either
side of the water, but simply in order that the
board may enter into agreements with the various
ferry . proprietors to compotnd for the tolls.
The Dock Board have arranged to compound the
tolls !lir twenty-five pSi. cents of the' etttal amount
received. from the, goods traffic of the Birkenhead
Commissigners at the Woodside Ferry ; and they
have agreed to coMpound for.these tolls, with all
the other ferries, at 10 2-3rds per bent: on the
actual amount received froth goods arid cattle
traffic at those ferries:, The reason of the higher
charge beirig made at the -Vtroodiide Ferry is that
the approach to the Lariding -Stage a*Wopdside
is provided by the Dock Board, while the other
ferries on the river- Mita • improve their own
approaches."

In the spasmodic efforts Which are being made.
by Mr. Bright and his adherents to get up an
agitation concerning the rejection of the Paper
Duty Bill by the House of Lords, it was scarcely
to be expected that our own little knot of Radical
leaders in Liverpdol should d'ot anitition to bear
a part. We -find, accordingly, that they have
been holding. &hole-and-corner meeting at some
office in Cable-street, at which (as we learn from
the only organ .accredited with the information)
" Mr. L. HeywOrth was called to the chair ; and
amongst the other gentlemen present _Were—
MessrS. R. Sheil, J. Jeffery, A. Glad Stone, 'C. J.'
Corbally, C. E. Macqueen, C. E. Rawlins, jun.,
J. B. Aspinall, and S.' B. Jackson." After a due
amount of angry speaking; the gentlemen present
passed a resolution constituting themselves into a
" Constitutional Committee," for the following
purposes:-Ist. Watching the proceedings of the
two Houses, of Parliament, in relation to the
question now at issue.-2tid. Organising public
opinion in this town and neighbourhood, by
means of. public
,meetings, petitions, &c.-3rd.,
For correspondence with' similar associations;
which are or may be formed in other parts of the
kingdom." The following extract from the
proCeedings,is aninsing. 'the poor Siniple• Chair--;
man aslted (we quote the report)—
"Is the paper duty levied *early-?.' "
"Mr. Aspinall—No, it is a permanent duty.
",The Chairman—Suppose that I were a paper
manufacturer, and refused to pay the duty on the
plea that it had, not been sanctioned by' the House
of Commons, could I legally do so ?
" Mr. Aspinall—No, you cannot do that."
Mr. Robertson GladstAe, who was among the
tipetiitters, said lie " had:had no particular commu-
nication with his brother (the-Chancellor of the
Exchequer); but he believed' that his brother's
trust was in the force of public opinion, and that
while, of course, he desired' nothing like excite-
ment, he thought ;that that opinion wpuld coin-
cide with his own ; that the measures contained
in the Budget were Wise and ,just irieasures, and
that they shall& be taken- or rejected: in their
entirety." • These watchmen of the Constitution
are to hold another, and we presume more public,
meeting to-day: ,

The City of Washington and the Bohemian
both arrived yesterday; at Queenstown, with
advices from New York and Quebec to the 19th
instant. The news is unimportant. The Repub-
lican (or anti-slavery) party, at their convention
in Chicago, have chosen Mr. Abraham Lincoln,
of Illinois, as their nominee for the presidency,
and Hannibal Haulin, of Maine, vice-president.
Extensive preparations are being made through-
out the British provinces for the reception of the
Prince of Wales.