The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-02-25 00:00:00

The Carlow election petition has been withdrawn,

The Directors of the South Eastern Railway recom-
mend a dividend at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum.

The select committee of inquiry into the laws affecting
merchant shipping have appointed Mr. M. Gibson chair-

The channel fleet, consisting of the Royal Albert and
eight other ships, left Portland at noon yesterday, under
sail for Lisbon.

In the Mincing-lane markets business continues dull,
and at the public tea sales, yesterday, medium congous
declined id. per lb.
A prospectus has been issued of a Buenos Ayres
Railway, capital £150,000. It is to run 15 miles from
the city. The Government guarantees 7 per cent. for
twenty years.
The Times announces in its own columns that it has
been suppressed throughout the Austrian empire. The
copies which arrived by post have been seized, and it is
proclaimed that the journal will no longer be suffered
to enter Austrian territory.
The silk manufacturers have put forth a statement to
show that the French treaty places them, as respects ac-
cess to titer French markets, in a position worse than
that in which they previously stood. The French Gov-
ernment may not only eharge the existing rates on
English silk, but increase the sew from about 30 to
over 300 per cent., while French silks iu 4n.crland will
be absolutely free. •
The Times anticipates an era of extraordinary manu-
facturing development and prosperity from the progress
of Tres trade principles. If France be imitated by
Germany, Italy, and America, there is no ream
why Lancashire shoirld not double its number of
looms within the next fo*P years. The cutlers
have the same brilliant prospects before them.
Sheffield will have as near an approach to free-trade as
can be expected when two nations must continue to
raise something by indirect taxation ; in short, there-
fore, there is hardly a branch of manufacture which
will not receive an impetus from the new tariff.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE Oy. LORDS.--YESTERDAY.

In reply to the Earl of Carmaryou,
Lord WonurrousE said that the Govprnmcut had
received information that propositions of pave had
passed between Spain and Morocco, on the conditions
that Spain was to be indemnified largely for her
expenses; that she was to receive a large accession of
territory in Africa; to be allowed many commercial
advantages, and the permission .to appoint a Roman
,Catholic bishop and a diplomatic agent at Fez.
Lard 91.JN,o4wrkr called attention to the Sunday ser-
vices in theittreS, :=1144 W9Ye4 4 le olution condemning
them as irregular mid
.covtrp,ry i 9 oirciet,
Tha Archbishop of CANTERBURY, W41191# approving
the services, admitted that they R0;14 do good, a,ud
that they certainly were not illeg4l.
The Earl of SHAFTESBURY approved of the services.
This movement was likely to do good to the poor and
ignorant, especially those in the south and east of the
metropolis.

The Duke of MARLBOROUGH likewise defended the
ifeiviiirea, and urged the withdrawal of the resolution.
The Bishyp 9f LONDON observed that the right posi-
tion was one of neutrality, and. that the bishops would
incur great responsibility if they iiiiiteFfer#4,
The resolution was withdrawn.

The presentation of a petition from Enfield, com-
plopiimg of irregularities in the worship at that place,
cawed kA whop of London to say that he hoped
these petitions wouiu iptkd to the passing of a law upon
the subject.

The House adjourped at twenty tpipptys pitst oklit

1101,TS'g AV COAPUON.-,YESTERDAY.

Lord 4;41 oi,a the table the correspondence
between the Vrench end gogliiph ggiprnineikts on ,the
subject of the con nvercial treaty:
In reply to Baron Batbaclxil4,

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCIIEqUER said that if the
House agreed to the abolition of the paper duty, a draw-
back would be allowed on paper manufactured after the
Ist of April. In consideration of the interests involved,
it was the proposal of the Government to postpone the
pf the duty for one or two months after the
I.st of ,T 4 y.
1r cire,7l,4y bad been addressed by
the Archbishop of Pullin to.the 1ne.110,33 of ;le Church
Edo/1 Society, on the subject of national e~l,caliol.
He wialredi q oow if any further correspondence ,h4d
passed oil the wbiet4t, Mid if it would be produced.
Mr. CAHDIyEI.T, said ,every one must :have read
with ntreme satisfaction theeirenia.r 4.414e51 to. There
was no further correspondence pecespary ip rifpOced.
In reply to Mr. erawboii,
Sir C. Woon said that it was proposed shortly to intro:.
duce a measure in India for the purpose of authorising
the issue of Government notes on the same principle as
that of the issue department of the Bank of England,
totally distinct from the banking department or any
banking operatioo.

fir reply to Mr.. Duneombe,
The Cipiticgr,Lon of the E*ortE9uEn 8441 tIRt the
conrse'to be pursued its consideration of th.e ;customs 004
in committee, would be to take the vine duties iu 003
first instance. With respect to the
.spirit duties,
the ultimate decision of the Uovernment qn those duties
was to fix them as follows :—Ali foreign spirits ceTeept
rum), Bs. 4d. a gallon; ruin, foreign and colonial, gs.. ld.
a gallon ; British brandy, Bs. Id. a gallon. Considering,
likewise, the disadvantages of the Irish distillers in the
export, he proposed to make an allowance on spirits ex-
ported, when raw and unrectified, of 2d. a gallon, and
on rectified 3,1. a gallon.
On the motion for adjournment till Monday,
Sir 11, SEYMOUR, in vindication of his conduct in
Chine, denied certain statements made by Lord Elgin
iu the other honse.
Sir g. Op.oqA* 41!:e4 the Secretary to the Admiralty
if it was intended to carry into effect tl spixi, of the
late naval warrant, as regards medical officers in the
navy, by granting to these officers, when serving afloat,
naval rank and uniform, with the distinctive badges of
rank, corresponding to the military rank granted to them
by this warrant both afloat and when serving with her
Majesty's forces ashore.
Lord C. P.wET said that this warrant, so far as rank
was concerned, had already been carried out ; and as
"IF r ffpiforin was concerned, would shortly be carried
out.
'IMr. Pir4.)Toni? asked tiie Lord 4-400te what course
lie intends to pursue with 'ft.ir4 to the ilrisoris Act
(Scotland) Continuance *ll, a.inl whetter''heliii4 'un4er-
take 'to introduce a general' hill to abidish Ale iiirsdn
board and to amend the present system of prison assess-
ments in Scotland at a period sufficiently early to ensure
its being dealt with during the present session.
The Loan ADVOCATE replied that he intended to, go
on with the Prisons Act Continuance Bill ; to the
remaining part of the question he gave no reply.
In fuply to general Peel,Sir
• Wo°9 eiteo 14tq some clet4ll§ of the elper
ditionary force to be sent to China, which, op at presept
fixed, would be ahont 10,000 men-7-0;500 from
and 4,600 from this country.
Mr, 0, 1141T0P., defended Lord glgi4 from the contra-
dictions to kis statements made by Sir It. Seymour. •
Sir J. PARINGTON and Lord J. RuasEr,r, said that
when two persons of so much eminence had made con-
tradictory statements; there must be some misappre-
hension, and deprecated further discussion on the
subject.
lu reply to Mr. M'Evoy,
Eqr4.4. said that after the failure of a pro-
-90;404 fora cqugrep? the British tioyernnsier4 rriade
propositions toSaiklinia, with a vie* of 'preventing th'p
troops of that power from marching into Central Italy.
and
to"t4eher°tEtenrZgi
purely voluntary,
of the Fo'r, 7?t4et
bTandisntonvroefl
evreed.iiicae4
than those of other povus, •nten-
Lord J. RVSSELL further stated it vas still his
tion to bring on the Reform Bill on Thursday net.
In reply to Sir
Lord PA.uit E anon. repeated th4t the Nurse he intended
to pursue with regard to the treaty was this ; To con-
sider in committee on the customs those articles of
the
treaty which referred to the customs, and after these
were. disposed of,. to bring the treaty in the aggregate
before the House in the shape of an address, which
would in due course be communicated to the House of
Jorda, so that the two *ties might agree to the address
together.
Mr. If 4bFrEI,o haring caned ettentiqn to the qdver7
tised pugilistic encounter of the Benicla Boy, for the
championship of England, as demoralising and improper,
Sir G. O. LEWIS said that all that could be done
would be done by the police—namely, to prevent the
encounter from taking place in the metropolitan district.