The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-03-14 00:00:00

possibility of a war with England is discussed,
Oh, Louis NAPOLEON will never .go to war With
us—it is not his interest to do so.' Such reasoners
do not attach nearly enough importance to the
chimerical element in his character. A man who
has so strong a belief in 'destiny, and is so suPer-
stitious, is not to be depended, upon for a moment.
We cannot persuade ourselves that he has a deep
and settled purpose of attacking this country,
though for that opinion we could quote the
very highest authority. Be sure,' said to us the
man whom we. should be disposed to' call the first
of living French 'prose writers, be sure, that
sooner or later he means to try to avenge
Waterloo :' and another person hardly less
remarkable, deeply hostile to the Imperial Govern-
ment,. and very friendly to this country, remarked,
speaking of the chance of aninvasion, It would be
a great risk, but if I were he, I would make the
attempt.'And what would there be to deter him
from such an attempt, if only he had the French
army with him, and the French people at his baCk?
The avenging of Waterloo is well known to be
one of those " ideas " which he has declared
himself prepared to carry out at. any sacrifice—
should the hope of effecting it once appear to
present itself. And, as the writer we' have just
quoted only too truly adds,—" what strikes us as
80 very alarming is, that he brings to the execu-
tion of liii•plans a total indifference to means. A
more profoundly unscrupulous man does not exist.
It is wonderful how much can be done, even in
Private life, by one who, possessed of sufficient
discretion to avoid the snares of the law and the
pit falls of 'public opinion, gets rid, at the com-
mencement of his career, of that expensive luxury
e6racience; Place such a man in high place
in revolutionary times, and he will play on the
wand's great theatre"the same part which is so
"ft" enacted successfully on a humbler stage."
'We have, then, just 'such a man now in a high
Place in Europe—and in revolutionary times too;
and ,whatever part he may be designing to play
the world's great theatre," it were assuredly
ear truest wisdom' to avoid, by every means,
being entangled with him in it. There need be
no occasion for quarrelling ; but, with such
e*a•Cter, we are certainly most likely tObe the
best friends at a distance.

SUDHEN DEATH OF BARON WATSON,
YESTERDAY, WHILE ADDRESSING A
GRAND JURY.

We regret to have to announce the sudden death of
the Honourable Sir W. H. Watson, one of the Barons
°f the Court of exchequer, while 'delivering his charge
to the Grand Jury, at Welshpool, yesterday. Thus, while
performing one of the highest functions of an earthly
Judge, he was momentarily summoned to appear before the
Great judge of all. It
.is .a very remarkable coincidence
that this solemn event should have occurred on the same
date, and under very nearly the same circumstances, as the
death of Serjeant Talfourd, at Stafford, some time ago.
It Will be in the knowledge of most of our readers, that
the learned Judge whose demise we now record, in the
early, part of his life, served in the army, and fought
at
Xaterloo. For his military services the deceased'
zaron was entitled to a pension,
.which he continued
.!° enjoy to the day of his death. This distinguished
lawyer, before his elevation to the bench, was the leader
of the Northern Circuit, and one of the most popular
Pleaders at the bar. For some time he sat in Parlia-
ment as the member for Hull ; and he received his
Promotion from the Whig party, with whom he acted,
although, it is barely justice to his memory to add, his
Political views were certainly too moderate and constitu-
tieaal for the " advanced Liberals" of the present day.

13nuintiinAn RAILWAY (Nos. 1 and 2) Brr.r.s.—The
Select Committee of the House of Commons, yesterday,
found the preambles of these hills not proved.

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