The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-05-30 00:00:00

GLADSTONE.

We have all witnessed the delirium of the
Treaty and the Budget. The astute ruler of
France tempted the Efiglish Chancellor of the
Eichequer to hazard all to obtain their ratifica-
tion and enactment. Stukely never intended
that Beverley should gain anything—indeed,

he took care to prevent it—his only aim was
to lure his victim to ruin. Re succeeded
only too wells but, in the end, he is caught in
his own snare. Louis NAPOLEON has taken
care that he only should be a gainer by the
Treaty. His great object was to distract the
attention of England, by a hollow proffer of
great commercial advantages, in the attempt
to secure which, its whole financial system
becomes deranged. In the meantime, France
quietly appropriates the coveted provinces of
Nice and Savoy. Mr. GLADSTONE recklessly
plunged into the ruinous venture, staking not
only his own reputation, but the interests of the
nation ; the Manchester radicals backed him in the
hope of gaining greater profits in trade; and a sec-
tion of the Press, and others interested in the repeal
of the paper duty, joined heartily in the play,
prompted by the most sordid motives. Both these
great imperial and parliamentary gamesters were
for a time intoxicated with the excitement of the
. game, and both appeared, fora tine; to
nay, even yet, perhaps, vainly imagine they may
be able to play it out with some measure of
success. The people of this country, however,
have fortunately had their eyes opened to the
true character of these political gamesters. The
delirium of the Treaty and the Budget has been
succeeded by the return of reason.

in the annexation of Savoy, Louis NAPOLEON
furnishes us with a key to the Mach-landed
Treaty; and it is all but, universally adinitted,
that had the designs of the Frence Emperor been
known from the first, the British Parliament
would never have sanctioned the instrument
negotiated by Mr. ColibErz. Good, however, may
come out of evil. We now know the Frenchman
better than ever ; and to ha. forewarned is to
be fore-armed. Louis NAPOLEON was a great
deal too clever in the way he juggled with
England in the matter of Savoy and Nee: His
success, we believe, will prove the sure beginning
of his end. He has sacrificed the confidence even
of the few Englishmen who, "hoping against
hope,'; had still some lingering trust in his
integrity as an ally. iie viin never recover from
the effects of that grand mistake, unless, against
all human probability, he repent "of his ways and
take to a better course of life... England _is not_
likely to be again trepanned by the intrigues of
the Frenchman. '

The people of England are alive to the coming
evil which already throws its portentous shadow
over Europe, and they shew, were it only by
their increased vigoUr add zeal in the permanent
organisation of the volunteer Movement,•that they
are determined to prepare for the Worst.
Whether Louis NAPOLEON'S destiny be to die
among the ruins of London, or spend the dreary
evening of life, like his great uncle, on another
St. Helena—=and some such alternative we now
deem all blit inevitable—we believe that, when

the approaching struggle is over, his remorseful
contemplations will revert to the period when he
deceived England in this matter of Nice and
Savoy, ds the time from which his entrance on
a fatal policy is to be dated—as the commence-
ment of his downward course td ruin: He has
fallen into his own snare ; and, it is to be feared,

that this is only the prelude to other and still
graver blunders. Let England beware of this
Imperial Gamester !
While Mr. GLADSTONE may have been? to some
extent, the victim of LOUIS NAPOLEON'S wicked
plot, his hands are not clear. To gratify an
unjustifiable ambition, he risked the infliction
upon this country of an enormous financial defi-
ciency, at a time when he ought to have been
most zealous for the ,preservation of our whole
resources. In furtherance of his daring projects
he endeavoured to bribe the Manchester cotton
lords, and to purchase the support of the press.
It was cleverly and daringly devised. At an
unhappy moment, however, he allowed his cards
to be seen, his game became known, and his fall
is imminent. From the hour in which the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer had the imprudence to
assert the propriety of leaving a large and grow-
ing deficit, and an uncertain future, to the financial
wisdom of a Parliament elected by six-pound
householderu, he had reached the culminating
point of his popularity, and his downward course
has been continuous and certain. Be Mr. GLAD-
STONE'S ultimate fate as a statesman and politician
what it may, we cannot but think' that the
recollection of that speech, taken in connection
with the wkolo matter of the Treaty and the

Budget, will ever sit like a nightmare on his
oppressed spirit, crushing him in the unavailing
effort to cast off a deep feeling of remorse and
shame at having been openly convicted in an
attempt to sell his country to France. One of
the bitterest ingredients in the cup of misery that
has been filled for him, is the fact that his
unpatriotic policy was thwarted, and his high-
handed career of recklessness first brought to a
stand, by the'rejection of the very measure which
he had estimated as one of his best guarantees of

success,

The Arch-Gamester arid his dupe have been
unmasked: The designs of NAPOLEON and the
jesuitry of Mr. GLADSTONE have been made clear
as the sun at noon. At last the House of Corn•
mons has been thOtoUghly alarmed. Conserva-

tism has made vast strides in the hearts and
minds of all men, in the House and out of it—
the Conservatism not of party merely, big that.
Conservatism which is natural to all men, and
especially to Englishmen, who enjoy every day the
blessings of a sound and well-balanced Constitu-
tion. The delirium of the Treaty and the Budget,
we have said, is gone. Reason again holds her
seat, and exercises her potent sway, in Parliament
and in the country ; and a session which began
with loud and prolonged pecans for Mr. GLAD-
STONE and Manchester, seems more than likely to
eud in derisive shouts of scorn for the " trans-
cendant orator," and with linutterahle feelings of
universal disgust and detestation of cotton states-
manship: The return of Lord DERBY to power
is our only chance of political and national
salvation.

LATEST NEWS.

(BY tltav3ll AND IRISH MAGNETIC TELEGRAPHI

FRANCE.

PARIS, May 29.

The 3foniteur publishes a speech delivered by
M. Fould, Minister of State, at an agricultural
meeting. He said the economical course which
has recently been inaugurated will create a fruit-
ful era of wealth and prosperity. He recals the
moderation of the Emperor, shown after the late
war ; and said the Emperor has several times
proelainied that he only wishes to ensure to
France the rank which belonged to her. France
quiet and prosperous can devote herself with
safety to public works. She knows the Emperor
to be strong enough to inspire all with respect
for her rights, and to be too loyal a neighbour
and too faithful an ally to menace the rights of
others.

The Patric of this evening publishes under
reserve the following despatch, dated Naples,
May 28th :=Garibaldi having collected all his
forces and Military Material, attacked Palernio oil
the morning of the 27th, made himself master of
all outer works, and succeeding in entering the
town. News of a later date announces that
fighting continued in the town. The fire of the
forts and frigates which encircled the port well
supported the royal troops, who were actively
engaged. The Paine also states that letters
from Genoa announce the departure of a steamer
for Sicily with 55 volunteers, besides muskets,
sabres, and powder.

THE FRENCH FUNDS.
PARIS, May 29.

3 23 P.M.—The BoUrge opened briskly, bttt
dulness afterwards prevailed. Rentes, which
opened at 69f. Sc., finally closed at 69f.55c., or 10c.
lower than yesterday.