The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-07-07 00:00:00

Ld PAEMEISTON''S RESOLUTIONS:

No man
_who is not blinded with prejudice can
have re-lief:Ord PAIAEBSTOtc's nidsterly speech
in the Commons, on Thursday evening last, with-
but44lltyielcliwto; him a sincere tribute of
admiration for his tact in handling a delicate
:v1,14.00; '.and for the moderation wit? which he
Idoptionciftlieratelutions be then moved.
must 'hiave b'eeri a firie sight to behold the cordial
:unanimity which rievailect between those who
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Oppose each other's genertifpdlio—,they as it were
IthAtint hands, and:- forgetting for the Moment
pr ax i 4144 rices, in 'order .that a great
, phabitiac,.tight be jirbSirdta against those whose
*biltitied 'vanity and distempered ambition have.
,
led _theta
_-into an- artificial agitation against
an ancient and- capital stronghold of the Con-
stitution. The scene strikingly illustrated and
sinfholised the truth that the heart of the 'country
SiSiinct; despite the MischleVous efforts of
all gorts•of deniajoittes_to demoralise and corrupt
the people. If the minds of Englishmen have
not been alienated from the Constitution, it is not
ineanse there has been.any stint of means used by
lick-capital politicians to that end; but because: •
„thepeuplo are too sensible of its actual advantages.
Vitii all its defects, they prefer
_maintaining it tO.
'ininiiniethe'xisk. of in experiment of doubtful
chtrattec • :This remarkable unanimity between
the -First 31inister of the Crown :and . the hon.
gentleman dho so ably leads " Her Majesty's
t"oprpcisition," was no party manceuvre, but sprang
from a high add disi'rifeiested sense of the duty
incumbent on all true t ngliehnVeri to valve minor
points,
~•• • .
and unite as one . man in tbo fre of a
common foe. . • -
•• Lord PALMER.S-T_O_N*is.not content with- simply
acknowledging that the conduct -of the House 9f-
. Lords rejecting tlfe Paper Duties Bill was
strictly legal. He as manfully .confessed that it
'Was 'sanctioned by policy: Their conduct, then,:
was in observance of the law, and the course they.
pursued one of which sound policy approves. To
• call upon -the HOuse of CoXlllPons assert
privileges which are opposed to the law and to,
"good.. policy, is not a course which is likely to
recommend itself to the people of
.this country.
It surely says little for_ the character of the
privileges claimed, if they-can only be vindicated
at the expense
justice and propriety. • -Yet
-such is the expressed opinion . of the chief of
the Government. Nor was the
fact of his
moving certain resolutions inconsistent, under- the
cirenmstances- in which he was placed, with-the
views he so eloquently and patriotically
ex-
pressed.
The first of these three resolutions is
an assertion • of the privileges of the Comnions,
copied from ancient precedents in. the journals of
the House, chits the solo right of supply to
her Majesty ; 'and, as such, it is not to be found
fault with. the 'second is a proper -legal and
constitutional admission of the right of the Lords
to reject Bills of Supply ; the proprietY of *lick

L not .to-be questioned. The third resolution is
the only solace of Mr. GLADSTONE and Mr.
BRIGHT, although it unfortunately admits that
the privileges of the House have been en-
dangered only by the inches and negligence
of the House of Commons itself. It is
tacitly based upon the idea that the House
had unwisely parted with its due command
over the taxation of the year by converting
annual taxes into permanent tolls; and it is
meant to indicate that there are modes by which
the House might vindicate its ancient privileges,
such as by substituting annual for permanent taxa-
tion, or by including the whole financial scheme
for the year in one bill. But it was not the Lords
that converted our annual into permanent taxa-
tion. They did not make this assault upon the
Commons' privileges. It has been done by the
Commcns themselves, and that under the
guidance of Whig leaders generally, and Lord
JOHN RUSSELL particularly, and under the
pressure of those " commercial Liberals" who
are now so comforted by the hint that the House
may thus resume its control over the annual taxa-
tion; and who would, in all probability, be the
very first to oppose any 'Minister who should pro-
pose this important change in the mode of levy-
ing the taxation of the taantry-. As to the other
alternative of embodying the whsle financial
scheme in one Bill, while it would not affect the
right of the Lords to reject it "as a whole," it
would greatly increase the disturbance to the
financial arrangements of the House of Commons
consequent on such a fate. On the part of the
Lords, however, such a course is not likely to meet
with any objection. For example, had that
course been pursued this year, and had the whole
scheme of the Chancellor of the Exchequer been
embodied in one bill had the twopence of
income-tax been set down in the same bill that
was to repeal the duties on paper such a
proceeding would have afforded a very diffe-
' rent opportunity for deliberation from that which
was taken advantage of for carrying the financial
measures of the Government in the unhappy first
month of the present session, which all now so
deeply and bitterly regret. No one can doubt
that the Ministerial scheme, if embodied in one
comprehensive measure, would have been rejected
from the outset.

These, then, are the propositions which solace
the wounded vanity of Mr. GLADSTONE and the
Radicals. Why should any one •grudge them
such small crumbs of comfort ? Certainly
the Conservatives do not. In none of these
resolutions do we see anything to object
to ; nor in the circumstances can we say there
is anything wrong in Lord PALMERSTON'S haying
proposed them. If there be anything unsatisfac-
tory about them, it must be attributed to the
rash haste with which MesSrs. GLADSTONE and
BRIGHT secured the unnecessary appointment of
a Committee to search for precedentS on a point
riot capable of being seriously disputed. It was
impossible, after that Committee's report had been
presented, to dispose of it without some- resolu-
tions, founded on it, being presented to the House.
We have just seen that, upon the whole; these reso-
lutions are innocuous, and if they aro Consolatory to
the-chafed spirits of the defeated CHAYCEL L UR of the
E2;:e7tEclutit and his motley followers,: why not let
them have" them? In supporting Lord PAL-
MERSTON on this occasion, the Conservatives have
done no more than prove that they are ever pre-
pared to uphold, not only the privileges of the
House of Commons, but the rights of all the__
estates of the Realm.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

(From or own C'orrceporld'ent. I

PAIIIS, July 5.

The lioniterir of to-day does not recur to the all-
absorbing subject of the funeral of the ex-King of West-
phalia : but most of the other papers do. The Conetitu-
tionncl remarks that the solemnity had all the characters
of a national manifestation ; and adds that " never since
the transference of the ashes of Napoleon 1, to the same
resting place, has Paris witnessed a parallel spectacle,"
eatire France being there " to salute_for thedast time
the brother of the Great Emperor in his passage to the
tomb." Having had the good fortune to be present in
Paris during the visit of (stir most gracious Majesty Queen
Victoria to the Tuileries in 1855, I take leave to
observe that, to my mind, the reception accorded to her
Majesty on that occasion, and the circumstances atten-
dant upon it, were .4114 more interesting, and un-
doubtedly much more real.
The only announcement of interest I have to-day
observed in the government organ is, an imperial decree
granting to all the officers and employes in the Sardinian
navy—being natives of Savoy and of the Maritime Alps—
who choose to enter the service of France, corresponding
rank and privileges in *bat service. But the permission
to make the exchange must bt• applied for before the first
of next month.

The rumour that the Emperor is to receive a visit
from the Prince of Prussia at Chalons no longer obtains
any :credit, but it is understood to be probable that, the
Emperor himself will take a journey in that direction
ere long. By accounts from the south of France, an
abundant harvest is now fully expected. There is a
very satisfactely statement on this important subject in
a journal of Toaliouse; which describes the prospects
of the grape as equally promising. " Plenty of corn,
abundance of grapes . you see we should have nothing to
complain of," is the language of that journal's corre-
spondent. I hope, so far as the wheat harvest, at all
events, is concerned, that the fine weather we are having
here has by this time.reaclied you also, and that your
agricultural reports have assumed less alarming features.
The Journal des Pebdes of this morning makes some
remarks upon Garibaldi, and the difficulties with which
he is now contending, which Are not in the very best
taste, The writer of the articlik in question thus alludes
to the Dictator's present position.E=;-"GOiafusion is great
in Sicily i the Ncl-rpolitans -rineriirnonalr. c!etested.
there, but the taxes are not 4:aicy daribil4i -with
promptitude corresponding to the:liatred:**lqek borne-
to the Neapolitan Government", 4Therir: r.s-:•reasen
to fear," the article proceeds, "that if tj;!_tVita, ta..tor, loses
further. time in prtoting
his erganisatki * omits
a,
to engage the Sicilians in a march.
ups MebQ%na; h$ will
have more on -hii hands ' than he .Caia well" manage..
What Garibaldi at present stands most in need of, is not
valour; but administrative. att-d
_political capacity." The
same journal also publishes a petition, xrbioh has been
presented to the Government by a number of manufac-
turers of cotton twist, priying: that the commercial
Treaty be executed as soon as possible, and that the duty
on imporfatieni be reduced. to. the minimum. I have.
no doubt that the niaatifacturers of Manchester and the
merchants of Liverpool'
will cordially join in the first
'
branch of the.prayer of L'Aisne, Le
these firb,:ictinei of
`NOrd, and Straw. '

trorn
The desp N'aples continuo to dwell on the
stolid attitude exhibited b---tho.inhabitants towards the
on the dif6caltieS Which et-and in the way_
of the formation of anything like a permanent Constitu-
tional Alinfstry, and the pains which .M, Brenier has
taken, and continues to take, since his convalescence, in
conj atelier!: with:the unole.of the .king; Count Aquila,
to overcome ll'eni and, most important oral; on the
opposition which the Liberal Italian party continues to
Make to the concessions and overtures of Francis 11. .A
placard has been posted up :extensively, calling upon
the people to put no faith in princes, and charging with
high treason all persons who shall interfere with the
great work of Italian unity which Garibaldi is so
steadfastly pursuing. The general impression among.
all the well-informed foreign organs is, that the-
attempt which is still being unremittingly pursued by
France to reconstitute the Italian Confederation, on the
basis of the treaty of Villafranca, is at least a year too
late. If made twelve months ago, and concurred in by
Naples' and Rome, it might, and probably would, have
succeeded; but now it is hopeless. The later advices
from Naples, as you may have seen, announce a com-
plete change in the composition of the Sicilian govern-
ment. Some new and entirely unknown names have
replaced those of the first combination; and the only
member, of the former caste, whom Garibaldi has
retained near him, is Colonel Orsini—his former War
Minister. On this subject the Inclependanca remarks—

" That it is still unaware whether this change is due to
the step taken by the Dictator in convoking the elec-
toral ccmitia to resolve on the annexation of the
island to Piedmont, or whether it has been principally
caused by the unpopularity which, according to some
accounts from Marseilles, has attached to several of the
members of the administration who were called to office in
the first effervescence of the insurrection." Garibaldi has,
however, in the midst of all these difficulties, contrived:
to scud the Prince San Guiseppe to Turin, where he•
has been cordially received by Count Cavour. The,
concessions" had arrived from Naples, but in Palermo,.
as in Naples, they met only with contempt—the best•
mode of reception that could have been accorded to
them. Several changes are announcod in the Press of
Naples. The Government organ has assumed the nave
of the Ccnseit!?! ;ma? Jo!ernal ; and the IriB appears
again, after a year of forced silence—its first number
containing a statement confirmatory of the numerous
desertions on the part of the Swiss in the service of
the Pope.

The Left:pear/twee 'returns to the subject of the atti-
tude of Prussia towards the Federal Diet. In its
edition of Wednesday evening there is the following
" After having failed in the attempt to drag Prussia into
their anti-reform policy, the Sovereigns of the smaller
states of Germany will finish, perhaps by recognising
the difficulties and the dangers of a contest against a
movement which has assumed a character at once
national and liberal. A proposition which has been
submitted to the assembly of the burgesses of Hamburgh,
may aid in enlightening them on the progress which liberal
ideas are making around them each day. The effect of
it is to declare that the general Diet has abrogated
its privileges since 1848; that, powerless to effect any
good, it has power only to do evil ; that it has no longer
authority, or dignity ; that it is con-
either streniqh,
sequel/fly most desirable that the Prussian Government
should he invited t„e take the initiative in the establish-
ment of a regular lcentral Government, by calling a
National Assembly.' .Any one who remembers the
miserable figure that was oit by the repiesentatives of
.:
" Fatherland," who assembled at Frankfort in 184 S,
and the absurdities at that time knerpetrated by these
individuals, in the name of the FM: cral Government
would view the permanent extinction of s,'lch a body by
general loss to Get..llanY• no means in the light of a
As regards the perjury of the Spanish Ita:111t'
observe that it is now said that the Spanish Government
has prohibited the publication of the retrattatinrr in and.
of the Spanish journals ; and a Madrid eorrespondent
of the Independance states that all fore*, jourtielSe
containing a copy of the document, have bees seized.
The Viennese Court has gone into mourning for tens
days for Prince Jerome.
There is a considerable dearth of general subjcat.s_ of
interest here at present, the ceremonial of Tuesday appa-
rently occupying the thoughts of the Parisians, as well
as large spaces in the Paris journals; but my communi-
cations will hereafter be more varied in their contents.
as my correspondence proceeds.

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