The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-03-15 00:00:00

at any rate were persuaded- by those who went
amongst thernfor the'Purpose, would' be better.
than their present condition ; and, allured ley the
promises of ,advantages in annexation to Sardinia,
there was no. greatAiffieulty in securing the
popular voice fdr that—purpose. All that has
beereaSiie, therefore,' in this Italian* arrangement,
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has heen,done not only, with the sanction of, Her
Majesty's Ministers, !hut very much at their
instigation. The French t mperor, meanwhile,
piss lo4ing CloselytO his own interests ; and to
enalg9'.hipa to aggrandise them_ in the vay
had planned, he. not only has,,hayed a. deep
game -with 'England, in Italy, but a still deeper
one in his own dominions, by entering Into • that
Commercial .Treaty, .to negotiate which •he must
have been but too glad. to have received a poll-.
titian &the peAce,•tit-any-price character of Mr.
coßit. N. Lord 3.61 t. RUSSELL and his colleagueS,

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we §..v, were furnishing hjs -Majesty .with a plea
for adding to his own territory that of. Savoy and
hnd in orderr-to divert then'', from his

jUlpe.:ial p irpose, While they were busy
nleacikg:ylriith the coneerns,of Italy, the, Treaty
1°44 devised and coneoeted—Lours NAPOLEON

well:knotting all the "white,:that in so doing he
*a:B throwing dust in the eye ',- of the
nt}iinistry,
but doing what < would, not fail
`t° lumPitiate popular English Liberalism. He
took it granted', that if Ye were.notma nation-
bf 41.1;:kliteile''tS,'' he had meitto' deal 'with 'whoSe
•13°'10/71 was truly characteristic, of such a nation ;
and 'that he could adopt,- therefore,
,no surer,
means of gaining' 'his ends; than by addressing
himself to them in that capieity.
4,Ahns has it come to pass, that Loris
t•-kl'inizto'x will get an acquisition of territory
'willeYkinay prove, at no distant period; moat.clan-
germiiVtlie
p,ace of Europe; not only by giYing
ge°2hical 'advantages to France, but by its
disturbance of an equilibrium most essential to
the Wahl:tee of power nn the Continent of Europe.
Deliberate invasions'of right, whether territorial
or otherwise, and the necessity of maintaining
slch.ltibalance of Power amongst neighbouring
Ilatichik, as that. no single State, or confederation
of Stittes, shall beCOnfe. able to' overwhelm the
hat, have ever been considered to be justifying
`causes-of war. And although this, predatory act
of Lint NAPOLEON ,may Very- properly not be
'antrtttd'' to have any -such- effect on the present
4:keasion, it is not the less mischievous,as a pre-.
cedent, and may tura, out to be not the les§ dan:-
gerons its results. •We aro•iptite disposed to
agred 'With Lord' 'that this " was:
nota..question on which the issue of peace or war
I_l"ilbiloglepend, and that although they might
lu'a'agieat objectionstO the French project, it was
'°t of iictilcirtance as to 'require thii
t°ll/Ityy thresort to hostilitiesO in order to resist
it* .FurAhe sake of ~peace we would fain go
along With the Premier when he further declares,
that if upon thiS question of anne:iation " they
had I;*anged a hostile cOnfederacy against France
it mould have aroused national feeling, and borne
alYPeatazce of. compulsion, when 'they were
not prepared to exercise compulsion." But' what
the people of England find fault with is;that Lord
lIALXE'RSTON and his colleagues have, by their
both in Italy and France, actually fur-
lthered'ithe '467 obfegit' which they now con
d
ernn. tieeqveryipi4lcUt forth by France
turned into ridicule hy our Prime Alinister,—the
plea, namely; that France could apprehend
danger from Sttidinili; Net onlYl-has all 'past
ftlierience shown, , that natural boundaries never,
proteet, ; country, or. resist the. march of armies
time of-war, but that Lours NAPOLEON? Ptetext'
vas all 'The more' hollow beeause 'no power could.,
dream of attacking France without provocation.
Still gig French ..Emperor will gain. an acqui-
sition-fel territory which cannot but -hare the
effectoknihking More formidable as the
great distufting power of Continental Europe)
and -the deep-laid scheming. he has .Pursued to
attain it, and the risks he' has run among' his-
own subjects by this 'Commercial
Treaty as
a of his 'deep-laid scheme, show -whair'
importance he himself 4taches tit.. it.. ,‘ Twenty
years, .ago,'' as one. a -our contemporaries. well
observes, " the outrage which is now scarcely felt
as staiilini would have been deemed Pnpossible.
The
inPmory or tradition of the great war still
ImPre4ed on the minds. of- statesmen the para-
Inountitle6eisity-of uniting to keep French ambi-
tion Within Winds. The, much-abused 'Treaty, of
Vienna xvas,ramed as a safeguard against dan-
gers NAielh after. the lapse .of nearly half :a cen-.
ttuT, Acre once more becoming appreciable:''' The
imPettst "bil4 of enforcing its proViSions arises,,
not from their unsoundness, but from the,unavoid-
-able disruption of the great_European• alliance.
The diPielnatie ctimbinntions which were effected
°Y irreSponSible'GOverninentS become
-when the gi4aLiVlia'SS of, a nation interferes
~in, its
awn
,foreign policy." In: these considerations,
just and. incontroVertible .'as-they are; there is
much' that elucidates the policy of the present.
'34iniitry,of England ; and more particularly in
the last remark about the " disruption of :the:

IS - scilitinfr(i be pursued "when the
great" Massi ajiiation interferes in its, foreign
13°1iCY," The Ministers, of ,England, who have
contributed so much to bring about this annetazt
tic% bf SitA;oy' to France, litive been guided in
their • it foreign policy,is evident, not so much by
a reprd to ,9,4l,nation al .security, or national,
h0110ur,;..., as, ._,
by motives'ic,and intiuencee, Lof
PoPulargy and party advantage. T4t
knewf"l6-' value of attaching to themselv4:
the Popular -interest ..and, .influence, far, instance,..
of " the; Manchester school ;" and' in 'doing this,
thrcgh their Very one-sided Treaty' with tons
,
I‘4APOLzo.N, they have evidently lost sight
.of
those ghee pd,more Pennanent. objects, which
are involved in a wise, a just, and a dignified:
41reigo policy. - •

THE NEW REFORM

A Parliarnentary
,return has just 'been published of the
bonaber'of- Mare persons resident within each city, and 1
borough in England and Wales, Or within seyen miles
thereer,'essesieirtrithelast poor -idle at £6 and under
£lO, wflieli shows'the number ofi Parliamentary electors
tbat will be added to register in each CiTyHiinCl borough
11 the lowering of the frinChiiesiimn £lO to £6. This
return fuilf hears out what we have said, as to!theinuU7
dation of,electors of the. lower classes, which the Minis-
terial Reform Bill will direct; into the constituencin
some of our most important cities and boroughs. To
the borough of Liverpool;it shows-there -will-be added
1111 Words elf '15,000 of that class,—the whole if!Mtheir7of,
e.il:etor:4‘ 'for this berOUgh on the register at-present, being
To Mancheater it will add nearly;,l,ooohich
is within a few hundreds of the whole number..
electors at present, oti.-7the e register • far that, city-. •
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TLere.is another very remarkable and.signifieent fact
hat the return discloses=-or rather a nete'tO the return
ZaraelY,- that Liverpool the rates ctilthehothi Of
an)lual value of £l5 are riot paid is to..
aNv,e suppose, that the occupiers. of houses below the
,al value of £l5 are excusedikorri their rates on the!
01111d•of poverty ! If such, 'tlien,•-is the character of
wcle decripy houses between £lO Mid £l5 alear,,.
'what Will it be of those, bout to be addedt9 the Parlia- ,
11£71,.;t44.7 reg4ter, asi openpYing.ihouses,between,X6 and.
alear,—and the name of whom may be said to be '
'''',°o;'numbeiing, as they do,- Upwardsof'l6,ooo?'•
brat giving
table of the return consist of twrieoluninii the
giVing the number of electors above £6 and under
Yearly rental. " Any one," says the Times care-
co inspecting this table, must, we think, • come to the•
neloiion that, whether for•good or for evil, the power
ferthetnFliSh cities arid'boroughi:is in the,irriain trans,
easred Pllibuseholdersunder Lib; or in more favourable
thi:scato•ho. iieholders under £l5 of annual rental. What
' 48 189" continues our conteraporaryi,"-we have very
fl•le Perfket means of knowing, but something may be con- 1,
ilactored From the notes as to their habits which we have
above cited, and something also frem our experience
order
thowreemen whom' the:Alit:Reform. ipare-d* in.
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the would seem, t 9 bathe types and precedents of
fro geP)ncL We think( that -few persons will 'differ
th:oh- When 'we
.say, that-.though it is quite right that
class
are of the comnatinit4"- Should be represented,: they
Act exactly the materials out of which we could