The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-03-28 00:00:00

and the views of the Government would be found
fully", stated therein as to . future operations.
A long. tliscuien.,..took place on the report of the
Packet and .Tel graphic Contracts Committee
on the Dover contract with Mr. Churchwardt
They had acquitted the late Government of corn
ruption, but had found the person (Mr. Church
ward) with, whom that Government had to deal
guilty of political corruption, injuriously affecting
therepresentation of the people in Parliament. A
ajerity of 162 ~te, 13 of the House were of
opinion that the'C'emfract, therefore, ought not to
be fulfilled. It was stated by Sir F. Kelly that
the rescinding of the contract would be a fine of
£2,000 a quarter on Mr. Churchward for at
... imputation.,on which,,ha,,,had, neither been.kried
nor convieted.-7 7, ' • , . -71-4 171 ---
At length latifirmistice hag beenLbdnbludec
betwebtithe -Spaniards and the-Moorii,-1 pre-;
liininary to peace. .The recent magnitude of the
military operations of Spain in Morocco, and that;
conseqtient kneee'ss, have doubtless led to this
most satisfactory, result,—thus furnishing another
forcible illustration of one of the greatiDuke's
favourite. intliims,. that it is never desirable ton
carry on little wars. A little war might have!,
protracteddhese hastilities hetwnen.the Spaniards:
• and the Moorc.te an indefinite period ; bnt hyl
pursuing them .on as. grand a scale as Marshal
O'Donnell has lately done, they are 'already'
brought to a close, to the advantage, no doubt,f
of both the parties engaged in them.
Switierland is evidently to have 'her interestsi
sacrificed by France, through the iinnexation of
',Savoy. General Diactur is said to have returned'
home. in utter despair for that neutralisation of
SWitzeriand ' which has been maintained while
Savoy has belonged to Piedmont ; and them,
is great indignatic4 'throlighent the cantons„
-tinder the apprehension that they are henceforth!
to be left t 4 the • merciy of Louis Napoleon, of
whose designs they have the greatest dread. t
_The _rumours in Paris of an_allianeehetveen
-France, Cfussial and Austria against England andi
Prussia appears to be gaining some eredenee.l
Its immediate object, however, is altogether a:
matter of speculation at Present. The prevalent;
idea is,thitt it Will-be directed to the loiering la
the influence of those ,twe 'ewer's, but rediel
especially of England, in Continental politics. 1
It seems to be generally taken for granted,:
that Lord .John Russell's admissions, as to the:
coudnet of :the,,Fren4h,,gmperor, imply , a tacit
acknowledgment of the imprudence of the course
he has followed in his. policy toward 9 One who
never, from they first, prefereedttury claim to the
trust R 4 ponfidence of an English Minister. As
a confession, this is all very candid, and credit-
able, as far as it goes ; and one would fain hope,
that having found himself thus in the wrong, he
will , take good care to be right in that quarter.
hereafter., But, as we (Te it w 1 ,renztarked,
" OTOS 114tiWils will .194 with sgspitiao!it-tltis
late repentance, at this extension of the hand 6f
_• ... _
friendship in the hour 'of common necessity, and
its withdrawal at the moment when _the need was
not so apparent to *selves. Hitherto the policy
of the Government : has been exactly the reverse
of thai'now laid' cio4vli hi ti Foreign Secretary.
It lai hem roarlied- by
,ans adherence to the
trerieh alliance"atlthe ekbense of the friendship
df 'everf diter European power, and it has
'resulted,
,as-tmigklit have: -bun expectiedt in our
.betrayal by rFrance, and our allandanment by
Ocintitiental C6urts.P '' These results certainly con-
ititnte .yeryi great evils for a country like Eng-
land to suffer-under-at such-aconjuncture-as-the
present ; nor do 'we think it possible that they
•ean 'ever be folly removed out of the way, until
our foreign policy is transferred to totally dif-
ferent Banda front those by which it has thus been
made so injuridus to, the interests of the country,
There can be no ' doubt that, as the W)/4.08
rentarks; the present is an Tihappy time for the
British Government to declare itself slighted and
betrayed bt 'the French Emperor,---- unhap ty,
inasmuch as itrisktoo late, it is to be feared, for
the discovery tO ao any good. " The Emperor
has gained all his . objects, lie 7 has Crippled
Austria, nentralisedillupsifi, and conciliated Italy.
We arise from our clieam of confidence, and tell
hint, that we have been deceived and that we
'intend to triAstAitn no more. The time is past
when such a reproach or such a declaration would
have had weight." Is there, then, no censure even
due to those who could let the time for such
a reproach and svoli a. declaration ,go by, and
instead of giving heed to it, allow themselves to
he cajoled._ into_a_passive submission to Imperial.
: wiles?-, We differ froth Our contemporary as to
the inference- that he appears to think is to be
drawn from such an argument; fox when a man
finds hirnself betrayed, he at least takes care to
,Witharaw his confidence, and his connection from
his betrayer. And so will the British Government
.henceforth be bound to.do, in its position towards
the French Emperor. Lord Derby's Ministry:
never indulgednin any-such " dream of' confi-
dence ;" and there can •now, be little doubt, that
bad the country but been spared the infliction of
_another Palmerston Administration, it, would
have escaped !flitch of the mischief that is to be
apprehended., by Louis Napoleon having iigained
all his objects," undertlie fatal mesmeric influence
-he has contrived to exert over his thriller guest
at. Compiegne,
Nowhere, it would seem, is there greater indig-
nation felt at the conduct of the two parties to
the bargain
metropolis.
Savoy „and: Nice., than upon
'Change in the ln the city article of
the leadingjOUrnal;ynsterday;it is very pointedly
alluded to. • " The painful: feeling," it is observed,
" to: the shamelessness' 'of ill' the proceedings on
the 'Savoy question is intense, but it is not aecom-
,panied hOtny apprehension of imminent difficul-
ties." Thereil34/Tob,ahly no great oause at present
for La* Snell' apPrehension. But just in propor-
tion . as he 'who has acted the principal part in
,those proceedings creates the distrust of .Europe,
and thereby endangers its peace, will monetary
and commercial difficulties, it is to be feared,
he'likely to' arise.
'?'. The Morning- ,Iferald very forcibly shows, in
criticising the late speech of Mr. Bright on the
Savoy question, how he . became upset in his
equaniinity'„ 'theeistant ‘ib-iia: John Russell re-
marked that this country would manage to sur-
vive thejoss eft thei-yrettely alliance. " Visions
of the broken treaty floated before him, and he
lost ' hiMself in one of his usual indiscriminate
attacks on everybody who had the misfortune to
differ. with him." "II is on such occasfaes thafthe
lhon)membei', throWil -Off his giuird, exhibits his
real: character. „This is doubtless the ordinary
course for ranipdfiti.daniOcklits to. Paine:- But
Mr: Bright is driven into a revelation of his real•
tendencies,' which it is only to be hoped his
countryinenr generally will `be atilfta appreciate.
And we' cannot big agree with the remark, that
"•while he' has Intely more than once shown his
Want of those , feelings which most Englishmen
profess 'and revere, he Seems. now intent upon
manifesting 'a want .of Principle linit a callous
indifference to the freedom of - Europe Which
ought to p,on,vSncC 'every ,thinking man' Of the
insincerity of his convictions a 314 his AnScrupu-
ions purpose," • ' ',,

Pr-was evident from the tone and temper of Lord
JoH-N RUSSELL'S speech, in reply to ?fr. HORS-
MAN, that Ministers have at lengtht got their
eyes partially opened to the character and
designs of him whom they have suffered to cajole
them, and whose admirer, if not whose abettor
also, they have hitherto been, The deelaratiOn,
thitt the, Cabinet of England now ' distrust Louis
NAPOLEON, is one that not only justifies all the
criticism which has been pasSed 'on 'their policy
towards that Potentate, but that will convey the
hope to Europe, that at length the meditated
disturber of its peace will not be allowed to go on
playing and paltering with a PoWer, on *hose
resistance of such sinister influences as- his the
security of that peace 89- materially depends.
" He did not conceal his opinion that the conduct
of the Emperor gave reason for great, distrust,
as had the conduct of Sardinia, But he did' not
believe that strong resolutions or language on the
part of the HonSe would have arrested the ,course
of
.events ; on the contrary, it would have fur-
nished France with a plausible pretext for_ insist-
ing on a point, of honour-7"' PeihaPs, so,—Lord
JOHN may ,be right as to :the effiet' of .atr§ng
resolutions Or language on the Emperor himself.
But that could scarcely, 'in the end; have made
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still
see and feel,
a likely
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right
position with the 'other Powers of Europe.
Ministers ire obVionslY lieginnitig to
under the conviction " that the annexation t
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