The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-05-24 00:00:00

THE PAPER DUTY QUESTION.

The Times says there will be neither parliamentary
collision nor popular insurrection. The only result is,
that the Lords, availing themselves of a capital oppor-
tunity, have vindicated a privilege and established a
right which it still hopes they will be discreet enough
to refrain from using except upon sonic equally proper
occasion.

The Morning Star asserts that the two houses of
Parliament are already in violent collision. A large
majority of the Commons have sanctioned the scheme of
the Finance Minister. The leader of an equally large
majority in the Lords have vehemently assaulted that
Minister, and procured the rejection of a vital portion
of his plans.
The Post points out that all the precedents which
were cited by Lord Lyndhurst had application to mea-
sures which imposed new taxation ; but the Paper
Duty Bill proposes to repeal certain excise duties, and it
is doubtful if any authority has yet been discovered which
declares that a measure having this object is subject
exactly to the same rules and conditions which affect
ordinary money bills.
The Daily News, referring to the division in the
Lords on Monday, says :—When all is done and said,
there will next year be collected, as taxes, a million
sterling more than the House of Commons meant to be
collected. If these proceedings of the Lords are con-
stitutional, then the alleged inseparable connection
between taxation and representation is a delusion. If
the House of Lords is to preserve its fair share of
influence, it must learn to respect those privileges which
the House of Commons exercises as the representative
body of the nation. It is idle to talk of reform bills if
the House of Commons is to become a cypher.

The commercial sale-rooms, in Mincing-lane, will be
closed in future at three o'clock on Saturdays.

In consequence of the news from China, the tea
market, on Tuesday, was #rm, at au advance of ,-td. per
lb. on last week's prices. Coffee declined is., and cocoa
2s. per cwt., but the former met a fair current demand
at the reduction.

A popular demonstration, in support of Garibaldi and
the Sicilian movement, was held at St. Martin's-hall,
on Tuesday night. The hall was crowded, and great
enthusiasm prevailed. A subscription was opened on
behalf of the Garibaldi fund.

The Italie Nouvelle, a French journal published at
Milan, announces that a company is being formed for
piercing a tunnel through the Simplon, in connection
with a railway line which is to start from Geneva, touch
at Thpnon, Martigny, Sion, and Brigg, and end at
Aron 4 on the Italian side.

The Vienna correspondents of the Augsburg Gazette
continue to assert that the French Government approves
Garibaldi's crusade against Naples. In fact, it is believed
here that negotiations respecting the southern part of
the Italian peninsula are now going on between France
and Sardinia.

Madame Ristori had a narrow escape of being
poisoned. Her physician had ordered her a potion with
15 drops of laudanum in it, but the chemist who made
up the prescription, put 30 drops by mistake. The
symptoms produced by this over-dose were for a short
time alarming, but the lady has now quite recovered.
In Prussia, the Chamber of Nobles appears at last
aware of the serious responsibility it incurred by its
systematic opposition to the Government. It has just
adopted, by a small majority-49 to 44—the bill
relating to electoral circumscriptions, for which it had a
great aversion.
The Committee of the Prussian Chamber of Deputies
have made their report on a motion of M. de Ronne
concerning the inviolability of private property at sea
in time of war, and they express their hopes that the
Government will use every effort to obtain the recogni-
tion of such inviolability as a- principle of international

law.
The Espro of Turin states, on the authority of private
letters from Venice, that the Austrian Government has
directed the Venetian Railway Company to hold 3,000
waggons (an evident exaggeration) at the disposal of
the military authorities to convey troops to Verona.
Such a phalanx of the aristocracy of the land as the
list of members of the Royal Yacht Club presents can-
not, it is said, be found elsewhere. In the list there
are (exclusive of the First Lord of tks, sixe Admiraviscounts,
lty) five
dukes, seven marquises, fifteen earl
eight lords, four right hononrables, twenty-four baro-
nets, and the remainder are made up of members of
Parliament, officers in the army, merchant princes, &c.
LORD BROUGRA.M'S VISIT TO QUEEN MARY'S APART-
MENTS.-Lord Brougham, after all the fatigues of the
installation, and after dining with the Senatus and Univer-
sitysy his lord
Court, went in the evening to Lady Belhaven's draw
ing-room at llclyroo4. iNothitig wont,' sa.• - -• . -
-
ship but he !hat see lizziO'S: blood, land
Nvit:49,7o "taking des a;ycli
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andaway he went
do7rti ',4th "a ' light on each side, pored s' kneeeling
little, faded, decre id.
One can fancy the scene in that Is
old room. When there, some one, alluding
forenoon of to what his
lordship had so well said in the
that
him if he was for
conduct in the matter of Mary, Elizabeth's
at wonderful voice and
Mary. " No!" said he, with
eye, "I'm against Elizabeth, but I'm „04. r itr
4 49r wary,"