The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-06-08 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL.

NEW YORK, May 25.—Money dull. Exchange
at 1094 a ; Stocks hißlier ; New York Central,
821- ; Erie, 224 ; Michigan, 53 to 534 ; Illi-
nois, 641-, to 64g. Cotton steady. Flour unaltered.
Wheat firm. Corn lower. Sugar active.
NEW ORLEANS, May 24.—Cotton easier but
unchanged. Sales, 4,500 bales.
CHARLESTON, May 24.—Cotton tending up-
wards.

MOBILE, May 24.—Cotton firm; middling,
lu3c. to I.olc.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS.-YESTERDAY.

The Trustees and:Mortgages Bill and the Ecclesiastical Courts
Jurisdiction Bill were read a third time and passed.
Sir J. Barnard's Act Repeal Bill was read a second time.
Lord TEYNIIAM moved a resolution that the House, desiring
the settlement of the great question of Parliamentary Reform,
and for the sake of the peace of the country, was willing to
give its most careful consideration to the petitions presented
to it in favour of manhood suffrage and vote by ballot, as the
broadest basis of the electoral franchise. The resolution con-
tained other clauses, preventing vagrant and improper char-
acters from being put upon the register. He proceeded to
develop his views amidst the general amusement of the House,
declaring that universal suffrage was the object towards which
their deliberation ought to teed, though at present they might
be contented with household suffrage..
Lord Gliaxvittz briefly opposed' the 'motion, which was
negatived without a division .

The House then adjourned at ten minutes to eight.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-YESTERDAY.

The Speaker took the chair at four o'clock.

Mr. BLAxx asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
whether in the event of a measure for the amendment of the
representation of the people passing during the present session
of Parliament for England alone. a dissolution and general
election for Great Britain and Ireland would take place, to be
followed by elections in Scotland and Ireland, on the passing
of the bills for the amendment of the representation of the
People for those countries.
Lord J. RUtiSELL said that when her Majesty was advised to
dissolve Parliament, the dissolution extended to Scotland and
Ireland as a matter of course.

Mr. BRA Dl' asked whether, if the English Reform Bill became
law before the Scotch and Irish; whether the dissolution would
take place previously to these last becoming law.
Lord J. RUSSELL repeated that the dissolution was altogether
a prerogative of the Crown. According to practice, a disso-
lution would follow the passing any bill for the reform of the
representation, but what advice would be given to her
Majesty on that point he could not then state:
In reply to Mr. H. Baillie,
Lord J. Russam. said that he intended, after the night's
reform debate was closed, to propose the withdrawal of the
Scotch and Irish bills.
On the order of the day for resuming the debate on the
motion for going into committee on the Reform Bill,
Sir .1. FERGUSON said that he had given notice of his inten-
tion to move that the committal of the bill be postponed till
after the second reading of the Scotch and Irish bills. Finding
that this motion was irregular, he should move. the adjourn-
ment of the debate. He attacked the principle of the bill
itself, and the piecemeal legislation adopted by the ministry in
carrying out that principle. All the evils. he apprehended
would be greatly aggravated unless the three bills were dealt
with at the same time. He declared that the Conservatives
had no wish to displace-the Government; but they were not
to be deterred from opposing a measure which they felt to be
perilous to the country.
Colonel Dtosson protested against the conduct adopted
towards Iteland in the matter. After the dangerous budget
which had been proposed by the ministry, the house would be
better occupied in discussing the finance of the country than
the abortion of a bill.
Sir G. GREY could 'only regard the conduct of the opposition
as another attempt to delay the bill after., all other pretexts had
been exhausted. He 'denounced this ungenerous mode of
treating a measure which no one had the courage to meet by a
direct negative. He could not believe that any party in that
house would seriously have opposed going into committee after
having agreed solemnly to the principle of the bill; still less
could he conceive how any reformer would adopt a course so
opposite to his principles and his professed objects.
Lord J. MANNERS remarked, on this last observation, that it
proved where its difficulty lay. It was in the opinions of
members on the Ministerial side that the Government found
its chief opposition. It was not the Conservative party, but
the Ministers themselves who were responsible for delaying
the progress of reform, and truly chargeable with insincerity
in this mode of dealing with it. It was the Government who
had now to answer for a discontented Parliament and a deluded
People.. .

Sir J. COLEBROOK, while admitting that Scotland was not
fairly dealt with, would not on that account delay the progress
of the bill. . _

—.—....
Mr. LoNorretn, after blaming the delay which had taken
place, urged that all the various measures should be dealt with
in one bill. whether the
Mr. I.NortAm demanded a distinct declaration ..
for raibitsg
Gavernment intended to consent to any proposal
....
the borough franchise above the standard of toh tun
es estimated rental
Mr. PLaar WATLINGTON opposed the bill b th in detail and
prineiple,declaring that the returns of the g
r°the inconsistencies
were altogether fallacious.
matters, denounced
and lie pointed out
of i.‘ord J. Russell in this and other
or_ow.
of
51 .
Bri
r ght. ,
froin his own speeches the ulteri vi
thdeueap
Mr. ALcoex, admittitrgapparent apathy of the country,
toP excess a confidence, which
said that it was is reality
Government or'the House disappointed
would be forfeited if the
' Referring-to the reported speeches of
its `:just expeetatiens.
Lords Grey and
DerbY, 0
h declared the imputation they con-
tained against the
iVoriring classes to be most unfair and
unjust. - -
Mr. C. BRUCE did' not believe that the withdrawal of the
bill would produce any such indignation. At all events,
justice as well as policy demanded that Scotland should be put
upon a level with England.
Mr. BAXTER thought that by forwarding the enactment of a
reform bill for England, they would do what was best towards
ensuring a similar bill for Scotland.
Mr. GEORGE regretted that the question of reform for-the
different sections of the United Kingdom had been separated.
The three bills ought to Proceed and pass.
Mr. PEASE vindicated the right of the working classes to the
franchise.

After a few remarks from Mr.. Stirling,
The LORD-ADVOCATE opposed the motion for adjournment.
It was impossible to take three reform bills into consideration
simultaneously—one must have priority. The Government
were most anxious to proceed with the Scotch and Irish bills,
and Wished only thafthe members Who seemed ,so impatient
on. that point would help them to get into committee, on the
measure already before the House..
Mr. Wurrasins argued that if the English Bill was passe d

all discussion upon the Irish and Scotch Bills would become
useless. The new representation would be settled, and what-
ever right to new members might he established on behalf of
Ireland and Scotland, there would be no seats to give away.
Mr. BRIOHT denounced the interminable amendments and
frivolous delays which had been interposed to prevent the
preg,ress of the bill. The question was, whether the House
was willing to Pass any reform of any sort during the present
session. He proceeded to discuss the general question, and
cited many facts, showing the advance of •the working classes
in education, in intelligence, and even- in wealth. The"
classes had, he believed, generally expressed their satisfaction
with the bill brought in by the Government, and be implored
the House to pass a measure which was in every way eel°
and moderate.
Sir H. Cstaiss reverted to the qtiestion which he said 1;14
specially before the House, namely, whether the Scotch ant
Irish ,billS shoulel,bessroeeeded with at the same tinle.a, the,
English. He contended that the measure ought not to be
di-severed.
Lord PALMERSTON, in reviewing the course idorted tesrard •
the Reform Bill, said that the measure had held de.ayel,
entirely by the superabundant use of the gift of tongues by its
opponents. He asked the House to answer the plain question
whether it was proper to pass a bill for reforming the
representation during the present or in any future see-
lion. The op,esition when themselves in office had aecepted
the principle of reform, and this conduct was not straight-
forward in now attempting to defeat it by delay. All
their objections related to matters of detail, and ought in
consistency to be discussed in committee. The motion then
Underdiscussien for adjodrning the• debate was one of a series
of dilatory pleas designed only to dells' add frtistratc the TV'
gress of the measure. It was based upon the assumption that
the Government had abandoned the Scotch and Irish reform
bills. Tbis was altogether untrue, and he contended that 70
inconvenience would arise Isom postponing those bills until
anather session, as there was no time to pass them in thisret.;
The course pursued by the opposition with regard to the hit'
was, he maintained, unworthy of a great political party. Ile
hoped that the bill would, nevertheless, be carried to a VIC."
cessful conclusion before the end of the session.
Mr. DisrisEst argued at much length that the fault of delay
lay at the door of the Government and their partisans.
After some remarks in reply, from Lord John Russell, the
House divided, and the numbers were.: For adjourning th°
debate, 248; against, 229---majority against, 21.
Mr. BAILUE COCHRANE moved that the House should adjourn.
The division was immediately taken, when the motion fat
adjournment was again negatived by 267 to 222: majoritlt 45;
The motion for adjournment was, however, renewed, and
Lord Palhieritola asSentingl; the debate was adjourned to
Monday nest.
The orders for the second reading of the Sciitch and Irish
Reform Bills were discharged.
The other business was disdosed of, and the House adjOnited
t five minutes past three a.m.

THE COUNTESS OF DERBY'S ASSEMBLY•

• The Countess of Derby had a brilliant reception ell
Wednesday night, at the family mansion, St. Jamas'
square, London. The Sovereign Prince of Lichtenstein
and their Serene Highnesses Prince and Princess Edward
of Saxe Weimar were among the Countess's earliest
visitors. Previously the Earl and Countess of Derby
received at dinner a select party, including the Marquis
and Marchioness of Exeter and Lady Mary Cecil, the
Earl and Countess of Portarlington, Viscount Mahon',
Lord and Lady Claude Hamilton, Lord Delamere, Lod
and Lady Templemore, Lady Marion Alford, Lord
Redesdale, Colonel the Hon. Percy Herbert, and the
Hon. George Heathcote.

GREAT LOSS OF FISHERMEN OFF
• YARMOUTH.

Up to the present date the little that has been heard
of the missing fishing boats has served only to con6ol
the most dismal apprehensions. The lugger chgmpiou
has been picked up disabled,with her nets entangled ahont
her, as if the storm swept away the unfortunate crew
before they had time to haul in. Part of the stern of the
smack Prince of Wales has also been picked up, leaving
little doubt as to -her fate. The missing vessels were
the Contest and the Atalanta, the Stamboul (a cruiser),
the Paymaster, the Three Sisters, the Planet, the SylPh,
and another. The Royalist, of Gorleston, and the James
and Ann, of Sheringham, which sailed from Great
Yarmouth harbouri together with four luggers and two
cutters from Lowestoft, and two Yarmouth. smacks
are also among the missing. These luggers were
manned each by nine or ten men and one boy,
and tho smacks by about half the number ; 5°
that the loss of fishermen on this part of the
coast, and within a distance of about a dozen miles, will
fall very little short of 200 ; tha number lost front
Yarmouth alone is about 130. The number of families
ruined, of women made widows, and children ,
fatherless by this appalling calamity is painful to
contemplate, the number of children alone being
upwards of 200. We understand 'that a public appeal
will be made on behalf of these poor creatures who
are now utterly destitute, and, surely Ileaven-barn
charity never expended itself on more deserving
objects ! The fishermen here are absolutely panic'
stricken ; numbers of boats are lying idle in the roads,
the men refusing to go to sea. Several owners have
made up for the season, and landed their nets, sc'
disheartened are they by this havoc of their property.
The pecuniary loss directly entailed on the tows
cannot be less than £10,000; and, as fishing is the
staple trade of the port, a large capital being invested
in it, and thousands of poor men living throughout
the year on what they are able to earn in the season,
it is difficult to estimate the indirect effects of the catas-
trophe. On Monday six vessels sailed to the North So'
in the expectation of being able to ascertain some tidings
of the missing boats or their crews, but not a human
being here cherishes the faintest hope of their safetY-
It is a most remarkable circumstance that these boats
were in most cases commanded by some of the old
and most experienced masters belonging to the port.

EXHIBITION OF 1862.—A meeting of the guarantee
committee of the Society of Arts was held at the society :5
house on Tuesday, the Marquis of Salisbury, itu
the chair, when it was announced that the sum already
subscribed amounted to £302,000.
THE Rev. C. H. SPuaeflois.—The friends and ea"
miters of this popular preacher met at New Park-street
Chapel on Monday evening last to take leave of him for
a short time, as he is going to have a tour through
Switzerland, and will be absent from his congregktieu
about two months. Mr. Spurgeon has for some tiMe
past complained of great weariness, brought on, 117
doubt, by his indefatigable zeal. The amount of hl
labours may in a measure be estimated when it is state,'
that for the last seven years he has preached on an average
ten sermons a week, always to large congregations, but,
sometimes to as many as 30,000 souls at one time, beside;
other public duties.
SINGULAR DEATH OF A CHILD.—On Monday after-
noon, as a little girl was passing near a house in the
neighbourhood of Hillhouse, near Huddersfield, she
observed something strange in a tub of dirty water, enu-
on calling the attention of an older person to it they
found it to be the legs and feet of a child obtrudini
over the sides of the tub. They drew the child out, an
found it to be a boy named James Holland, two Yee
rs
and five months old, who had been playing about the
pavement a very short time previously. and it is eliP-
posed that in leaning over the tub, which was in all
exposed position, he overbalanced himself and fell in-
There were only a few inches of liquid matter at the
bottom of the tub.
FATAL ACCIDENT FROM CRINOLINE.—On Monday,
fatal accident occurred at the Owlerton Paper Mill, t
Miss Kate Marshall. aged 17, daughter of Mr. W. Mar-
shall, paper manufacturer. Between eight and nine
o'clock, Miss Marshall went into the mill: simply for
pastime, and with no particular object in view—en"
while standing' near • the shafting that turns ene of the
calenders, her dress—caused by her crinoline—got itit
contact with the machinery, and she was whirled round
and killed instantly. The shaft not revolving very
swiftly, and the workmen not being in the habit of
driving at a fast speed, it had never been thought neces-
sary to box it off. Just before the accident, the deceased
had been applying a little lubrication to the necksof
otte
calender, and it was while watching the •letteT at
that her clothes got wound round the machinery.
he
when ni
s
shaft was only two.feet from the ground,
and w
deceased was whirred round if. the floor fractured her
t
' skull, the immediate cause of deifb.
A GREAT Groa.—The great gun cast at Fort Pitt,
ab f
Foundry, some months ago, is now completed. The
bore is fifteen inches in
feet long. It is large enough to diameter, and
hold sixteen out
bus ourteen,hel&
and a stout, broad shouldered man may enter it and pas-. 4
down to the bottom. While undergoing the different
processes of boring,, turning, and planing, the gun had
turned round in its lathe about 65,000 times, and.
some parts of its exterior surface moved a distance
of one rod at each turn, making the whole distance
which some parts of the iron have travelled while
in the lathe, more than two hundred miles ! The
gun is now encircled by two massive rings, six
feet in diameter and one foot of face; which~ are
secured by set screws. The gnu serves as an axle,
roll along together on a
the rings act as wheels, and all and
heavy wooden railway. Holes are cast in the face of
pikes. Eight men, with
the whole
move along.
tthhee waihdeeolfs tf(t,serreacteeivaendiropntdhleaynads,
taut ay are
e railroad, the gun will be
eight-wheeled- platform cars
whichsoarranged distribute on ° each t ofe eta; set.
with ease. On arriving
suspended between ,tnweggeau.
sixteen wheels, each wheel bearingt 3,000 pounds, exclu-
whedolebwieamush,e
tfhroanit thtrellss
exclu-
sive of the.car, platforms, and .trussed framework., The
same' cars will carry the gun to Washington City, where
it will be transferred to a vessel, which will deliver it at
Fort Monroe.—Pittsburg Journal.
COLONEL DAUBENY'S VISIT TO PARIS. ColOtlel
Datibeny, Inspector General of Army Clothing, has just
returned from his official visit to Paris, where every
facility was, we understand, offered him for thoroughly
examining the various Imperial . manufactures and
depots. The Colonel's first visit was paid to the
flagnificent establishment of the Messrs. Urandillot,
in
the Rue Rochechouart, where every article of armyclothing
is made on an enormous scale, and princi-
pally by machinery. The first process examined was the
stitching
of tents, which is all done by women working
a whole wilderness of sewing machines, specially con-
structed for the purpose. Colonel Daubeny was next
taken through the boot and shoo-making department,
where ankle boots for the 'troops are manufactured
at the ordinary rate of 30,000 pairs per mbnih, with
power, under pressure, of doubling that number. The
motive power, by the >aid of which all the operations
of this department are carried on, is steam, which,
propelling a beautiful and elaborate arrangement of
machinery, successfully cuts out the leather, beats the
soles into shape, punches the holes for the stitches, and
finally stitches the work together.; in short, turns out
the boot or shoe a perfect
piece of •work. By a minute
subdivision of sizes, 24 in number—we have only
three—every 'recruit in the French army can be pro-
perly fitted with shoes in a moment. The careful inspec-
tion which the colonel gave to this department eneourage3
the hope that we may, ere long, see something of the sort
established •in this country, where the corns of our
recruits could tell terrible tales of the sufferingeendured
through ill-fitting shoes and ankle jacks. The insp
ci
iecottoy
subsequently visited the Imperial manufactory of
th
at Beauvais, and filially the central depot at Paso',w h
the arrangements of both' of -which he was very P..11.4c
gratified.--United Service Gazette.