The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-05-15 00:00:00

a power that ought to be sparingly used in oppo-
sition to the vote of theljonseof tommons, when
the question is one:oftaxation." This, then,
meets the whole qUestiou. :The -Lords do use
that.power sparingly in such cases. 13ut occa-
sions will 'sometimes arise when `not to use it
would be a crime. And if a majority of them
should be,,,cothinced that to repeal the paper
duty,' and thereby sacrifice unnecessarily a
large amount of revenue, would, at a moment
like the present, be injurious to the interests of
the country, they arc not only at liberty to
refuse their assent to it, but are in duty bound to
do so.

Recruiting in Ireland for the army of the Pope
continues, we learn, to be carried on with great
spirit, and with remarkable success. A day or
two since 150 recruits arrived in Cork, wlri were
described as "fine young men, belonging chiefly
to the farming classes, and filled with enthusiasm
fir the cause which they have espoused." Thee
were but a detatchment, it seems, of a large
force which the priests have succeeded in raising
in the interior of the country. A Drogheda cor-
respondent of one of the Dublin papers says, with
reference to a number of recruits already des-
patched to Rome from that neighbourhood, that
"their parents declare that they have been
wheedled and decoyed away by the priests, and
exclaim loudly against the movement." The
priests appear to be the recruiting sergeants of
the occasion.

There is reason to believe that the Emperor of.
the French, if not secretly a party
.to the raising
of recruits in Ireland for the Papal army, has yet
cordially 'approved of it ; and should it be true
that the French General, Latnorieiere, has takeh
the command of that army, quite as much in the
interest of France as of Rome, and with a view
to its being employed hereafter in furtherance of
French objects in Italy, such recruiting in her
Majesty's dominions must be doubly mischievous.
We quite agree with one .of our metropolitan
contemporaries of the Liberal party, that "it is
incumbent upon_public opinion in this country to
agitate for the immediate enforcement of the law
in the instance of recruits raised for the Papal
service in Ireland." It ought immediately to be
made known by Proclamation, that "to enlist
subjects of the Queen for the service of any
foreign Power whatsoever, without the permission
of her Majesty's Government, is a capital offence;
and in the time of what was popularly known as
the wild geese,' many individuals were executed
in Ireland as guilty of recruiting in that country
for the Irish brigade in the French service."
The question naturally arises, what is Lord Pal-
merston's Lord Lieutenant of Ireland about, that
he does not issue such a Proclamation ? Is it
that the Premier has been asked by his, friend the
French Emperor to take no notice of it?

Mr. Bright's newspaper, the Morning Star
announces, that "there is in whispered circula-
tion a rumour grossly dishonourable to a portion
of her Majesty's Government. The rumour is to
the effect that the motion of which Lord Mont-
eagle has given notice, is secretly encouraged by
a section of the Cabinet." Our contemporary,
however, cannot believe it possible ; because it
would be nothing less than "an act of treason to
the privileges of the House of Commons--a base
surrender, for personal ends, of one of the most
vital principles of the Constitution—,a wound as
irremediable as treacherous upon the most ten-
derly cherished of the powers entrusted by the
people to their representatives." Yes, all this, it
is contended, "it would be for the colleagues of
Mr. Gladstone and Mr. M. Gibson to afford even
the faintest apprsval to the insulting and uncon-
stitutional device of Lords Monteagle and Derby."
It might, or it might not, be all this,—we will
not now argue the point. But that a section
of the Cabinet are, at heart, opposed to this
financial measure of Mr. Gladstone and Mr.
we believe is quite true.
The recent appointment of Major-Ueiieral Urey
to the colonelcy of the Buffs, is severely commented
upon by the Times. " The regenerate Horse
Guards," it is observed, " has fallen back into its
'old practices. Nothing that was done in the bad
days before 1854 could be more reprehensible than
the appointment of Major-General Grey to the
command of a regiment." The General's great,
if not only distinction, it seems, is that he is
private secretary to Prince Albert. He has no
military services to reward. "We say then,"
adds the leading journal, " that to appoint to the
command of a regiment a gentleman who for
yearg past has been a mere nominal soldier is a
gross injustice to deserving officers, and an injury
to the profession." We think there can scarcely
he two opinions on this point. But a Whig-
Liberal Government cannot always act up to its
own standard of purity and patriotism.
According to some of the latest telegrams
received, Garibaldi has already succeeded in dis-
embarking a part of his expedition in Sicily—at
Marsala. We hope it is not true that, as the
accounts state, he, was assisted in doing so by
English steamers obliging the Neapolitan ships,
which were resisting the invaders, to cease tiring.
But although a portion of the invading force had
landed, it. iv .1.111 41—a ct-
haiie been repulsed, as the Royal
%troops were
fighting them, it is stated, at the moment of the
mail's departure..

• According to the Paris Constitutionnel, the
French Government hare received a reply from
Count Cavour to a despatch addressed to him on
the subject of Garibaldi's expedition to Sicily, in
which it is declared that the Sardinian Govern-
ment condemns that proceeding, as contrary to
its interests,—although it is admitted that Gari-
baldi, by the step he has taken, has only given
effect to a popular desire in Piedmont; and that
the Government "could not restrain the man who
represents so large a popular force," while " such
an act would have raised a dangerous reaction in
Italy." No doubt Garibaldi knew that very well.
As the French as well as Sardinian Government
is opposed to the enterprise, it is evident that he
is complicating Italian difficulties.
We hear that the French Emperor contemplates
more "compensations," in the event of " a further
extension of the dominions of Victor Emmanuel ;"
and that he has been corresponding with her
Majesty's Government about it. This looks
ominous. In one thing, however, the French
Emperor is quite right,—he deprecates any inter-
ference with the Sicilian insurrection. Let us
hope that Lord John Russell—during the short
time he is to remain Foreign Minister—will not
infringe so sound a policy.,

THE ultra-Liberal journals are attempting to
befool the public with a great deal of very mis-
chievous nonsense about the power—or rather
the absence of power--of the House of Lords, in
the legislation of the country. An intention
having been intimated of moving the rejection of
the Bill for repealing the paper duty which the
House of Commons, by a very small majority,
have sent up to the House of Lords, it is immedi-
ately, and with all the assurance imaginable, pro-
claimed, that the second estate of the realm is no
such estate at all ; or if 'it has any pretensions to
such a position in the kingdom, that it is only in
name, not in deed and in truth ; and that any
rights it might seem to possess are only such in
theory, not in practice. The Solons of the Radi-
cal press, with most plausible subtlety, are further..
asserting that " the Lords have still the theoreti-
cal right to reject Bills which they may not alter;
but the practical right has long since departed by
disuse. They have never dared to reject Bills
imposing taxes, to which they were notoriously
averse, because such rejection would inevitably
have induced the Commons to dispense with their
scent. Practically, they cannot do what the