The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-03-27 00:00:00

TUESDAY, MARCH. 27,. 1860.

PAY'S NEWS.
In the House of Lords, last night, some stric-
tures on the new plan of Indian finance were
met by the statement that the official details had
not yet been received. Some discuision took
place as to the state of our piers and harbAr4l2
and of our coast defences, which were declared to
jr a disgrace to the country, ,
In the House of Commons it was stated that
the legation at Florence is being abolished, and a
first-clais diplomatic mission established at Turin-
11' r. Horsman hropght,nnder notice the ,state of
qur foreign relations:' The papers PhAbised in
the royal speech, in referepoe to various matters,
had not been prOdueed. He contended that frog}
the first the House had been misled bitt the ogte,
ments of Her Maiestris Ministers' afs tc! the Savoy
annexation, who all the'•-iihile continued to
demand its.cpn4dence and to exact its silence. A
motion in the House r4-41t. have pgeouraged
the other PoWers to- resistance.. I was for
that reason that the movements of France I

were so rapid as to anticipate the House.
Their abstaining from expressing their opinion
implied either indifference or complicity. By
his conduct the Emperor had deceived the English
Ministry. He had treated them with a duplicity

Which they had not the candour to acknowledge,
and a contempt they had not the spirit to
resent." Lord John Russell's reply was even more
lame, impotent, and inconclusive than might have

been expected. He is manifestly writhing under
a painful sense of his own inequality to the task
he has underta,ken in dealing with " the sly little

man over the water ;" and struggles desperately
under a fatal sense of his inability to cm-weal his
from the Country-. "He could not state

what sense was to be put upon the declaration of
the Emperor that he would consult the Great
Powers ; but so, soon as he found out what was the
real meaning, he came down to the House and
deClared it. He had said that if there was a

declaration against the annexation, it would
not be perse)'rered in. But the Great Powers had

expressed no such opinion." But this was no
answer to the charge of complicity on the part
of the Government in stifling discussion in the
House, and thus preventing the expression of

such opinion by England, and the other. Powers

who relied on her. He did not conceal, however,
his opinion, that the conduct of the Emperor
gave reason for great distrust, as had the conduct

of Sardinia. He believed that the annexation of

Savoy would lcad a nation so warlike as France
to other demands of the same kind ; and they
must unite in preserving those rights and
boundaries of nations on which depended their
welfare and commercial progress. Thus it is, as

it has been before, Her Majesty's Ministrs, and
Lord John Nissen in particular, begin to

leam the With when it is almost too late

to profit by it. Mr, Bright was as severe
upon the Government as any one, when -he; said,
"Englaild herself had urged forward that state of
things, which rendered • the— cession of Savoy
inevitable. How could they expect, after what
had passed, Austria or Russia to. join with us.
The past. policy of iuterference pursued by this
country had injured ourselves and done no good
to ott3,er• people. He preferred- entire isolation to:
incessant internieddling." lengthened discus-
sion then took place on the income-tax, and
various details connected Nvith the budget, and
the several impositions of duty- therein proposed.
After 'Which, the report of Ways and Means was
Agreed to. The Chancellor of the Exchequer
:Moved, the second reading of the Refreshment-.
rooms and Wine Licenses Bill.' • Several petitions
were presented against it ;, one, amongst others,
from Liverpool, ehAracterising the measure as
one of contiscAtion. A difficult question arose in
the proposal to subject refreshment houses to, the
control of the poliCe. This was necessary, from the
irregularities constantly practised in such placei.
By the bill a far better system of control; was
established than any at present existing. By the
bill, all keepers of ;eating-houses could apply to
the excise for A license. The magistrates had a
POWor
.qually • stringent for the purpose of
repressing disorders. The powers gicia 0, the
magistrates 'were very large. Ultimately the
debate was adjourned till. Monday, so as to give
members an opportWaity of expressing their
Sentiments. _
The overland mail has brought on the whole
satisfactory news from India and China, althoqh
its interest was partially anticipated. It appears
to be quite 'true, that notwithstanding the radical
character of .Mr. Wilson's budget, a favourable
view is generally taken of it. The Indian expe-
dition to China, . which is to comprise some
18,00 A men, is not expected to assemble at
Shanghai until after midsummer. It is said that
they look forward to a campaign of at least two
years' duration. In China, all appears to be
quiet, in so far as one can judge ; but the, intelli-
gence from that empire is exceedingly meagre.
At the shipping ports, .the tea trade is repre-
, sented to be very brisk.
By the Royal Mail Steam-ship Africa, we have
intelligence froin New York to the 14th inst. ;
but there is nothing in it of any political inipor.,
tance. They we iniproving, in the United States,
their communications with the Pacific, both by
telegraph and mail lines. More troops are to be
sent to the Mexican frontier ; those now in Utah
are to be marched thither, although the safety of
that territory is thought likely to be. endangered
thereby. The Government was about to negotiate
a new commercial treaty with Honduras. In the
State N-ew. York, a general feeling of indigt
nation is said to have been produced by the dis-
covery of a bill authorising the construction of a
'horse-railroad through the streets,a the city of
New - York having been carried through the
Senate by means of bribery and corruptiom
Never before," says the New aurier and
*lll,Yrer, was there attempted in tiny Country,
%IA- a wholesale purchase of Representatives;
and never before, did corruption so openly
'and shamefully,. succeed. We have . heard of
corruption and bribery in the Qonnnon Council
of this‘city, in -Washington, and in the Legis-
lature of Wisconsin; but we hazard nothing in
saying, that the disgrace -..brought upon the
Empire State by this action of the Senate, ex-
veeds anything of the kind ever heard of in the
annals of legislation in this or any other country."
The last victory of the Spanish troops in
Morocco, which resUlted in putting the Moors to
flight, is considered to have opened the way
.for
Marshal 'O'Donnell to march direct upon Tan-
4iers--Aere being no further obstacle to prevent
his progress in that direction. It reataiiii to be
seen what the Spanish Government design to do
with that principal . seaport town of the empire.
Should its occupation be accomplished by the
Spanish. troops, it must only, of course, be for a
temporary purpose. The 'interests neither of
England' nor of FranCe would tolerate its reten-

The disunited state of Germany, as shown in
the German Confederation last week an the sub•
ject of Electoral-Hesse, may ho regarded as Pie-
Senting a tempting inducenient to Louis Napo-
leon to turn his eyes towards the Rhenish pro-
, vinees, the incorporation of• which with the
French empire is known to be so favourite a
Napoleonic "idea." The best chance Germany
has of successfully resisting any such meditated
encroachment. by France, must be in the national
concord—in the united action of the German
Governments tq rep such an aggression; yet
prAssia, now refuses to recognise a resolution of
the Diet, although bound as a Federal Govern-
ment of Germany so to do. Let us hope that,
for the sake of Europe's peace, Prussia will see
the necessity of bringing about a better under-
standing in that Confederation, the influence of
which may hereafter have so much to do with
the security of its territory beyond the Rhine.
The Morning Herald thinks it probable that
neither Russia nor Prussia will consider it neces-
sary to indulge in any strong expression of
indignation as to the French Entperoes annexa-
tion of Savoy and Niee, but our contemporary
hopes, notwithstanding " that the House of Com-
mons will not allow the annexatiin to become an
accomplished fact without a strong and formal
protest ;" for " there is but one free Parliament
in Europe, and it would be lintniliating indeed, to
think that so gross an infraction of international
law should he sanctioned by the silence of the
Hoye of Commons, as it has already been eneou-
Ta,go by the silence and inaction of Ministers."
It, is suggested, therefore, as most important,
that before the Easter vacation Parliament shall
have been permitted to pass a solemn judgment
on the 'policy of Louis Napoleon with regard to
Savoy and Nice.
Victor Emmanuel has addressed his new sub-
jects of Central Italy, congratulating them on at
length haying had their wishes satisfied, and
be
and
declaring their union under one monarchy
the Well-merited reward of their unity andy
perse-
verance.He tells them that he hasned.N. exposed
thus
given an example of
life for the independence of Italy,
a
loyalty, the imitation of
which tlo now claintsfrom his new people, as well
as from his former subjects.
Our export trade, according to the Board of
Trade returns for the last month, still 'continues
to increase. The exports for February, as com-
pared with those of the same month last year,
'present an increase of about 11 per cent., and as
compared with those of the same month the year
before not less than 47 per cent : taking the
exports of 4alAuays and February together, the
irwrease indicated is about 41 per cent. over the
same period of last year, and about 38 per cent.
i‘
over that of the preceding rear,--this norease
applying to nearly every principal item of expor.f,
but more particularly to collet, and woollen,
goods, owing chiefly, it is trderstood, to large
shipments to the United States.
The Times is hurling some most forcible argu-

ments against the Income-Tax, now when It is too
late for them to be of any practical avail. They
are founded principally upon the ground of its
establishing a system of direct, as opposed to
indirect taxation. " Large masses of indirect
taxation," it declares, "are not only takedoff, but
so damaged and discredited by the. invectir of
Our financial Minister that, except in a)casefidthe
last and utmost necessity—presenting, in fact, no.
other, alternative—nobody can dream of their.
re-imposition." And these' 'invectives, and the'
whole course of proceeding, indeed, of that Minis-
ter, are shown to be utterly at variance with the
'doctrine he had laid down before, that, as a ruler
"the revenue of the country ought to be raised
mainly from indirect taxation, and the IncOme-
Tax called in, as,an occasional tonic to invigorate
the revenue, when some great exertion was
required."
,Aid see how completely. the leading
journal agrees with the Conservative view ,of the
question, when it says, that we are now com-
mitted, so far as Government can commit us, to a
reconsideration by a new and much more demo-
cratic Parliament of the whole structure of the
Income-tax, in the face of a deficit of £13,000,000,
with the hint, fel' the guidance of our new Par-
liament, that .the taxes have been hitherto
unjustly imposed ;" thus preparing, it is added,
" the preliminary .steps to that state of things
against 'which, we have so long felt it our duty to
protest, when the. duties of the poor and rich' will
be finally diVideel from each other,--the duty of
the poor being to impose, and that of the rich to
pay the taxes."

, • Dr.
THE present political position of this toutitry is
one of complication, deeply iniVolving .both its
domestic and foreign interests. There ire three

separate measures that go to constitute thtft corn-
plication,—the French Treaty, .the Budget, atid
the Reform pul,—separszt, inasmuch as that
each is a measure by itself; but yet the whole
three so mixed up with one another,-if not *hi)
so necessau to the success' of each other, as .to
complicate the policy of the Government in a

most mischievous: manner: The Saturday Pe:
view, after expressing a hope that such a- Budget
as that of Mr. GLADSTONE'S «wily never' be
offered again,". thtis points out.its real, connection
with the Treaty, and the true oharac" ter of both :
:"T • • • I .; A
The vice of these projects is that they hoe
plainly not been suggested' by 'the circumstances
of England at the time. Whatever were the
French Emperor's motives for entering into the
Commercial Treaty, the, Treaty most assn 'redly
was the final cause of the Budget. Some of the
Ministers, in their eagerness to disclaim what
would have been the crime of accepting the new
French Tariff as the price of Savoy, have
admitted that Mr. COBDEN commenced his, nego-
tiations in complete ignorance of the general
state of our foreign policy, and long before the
question of, Savoy had acquired seriousness. In
other words, Mr. COBDEN concluded the Treaty,
and left 4r. GLADSTONE to construct . a 'budget
of Which-, it was to be .the kernel. ,No human
being would, in fact, have hit, upnn,sueh a,fiscal
scheme in the existing condition of the national
finances, unless constrained some external
necessity: We Ov)e to the sudden and .unelti-
pected opening of the French -market- both
Mr: GLADSTONE'S proposal to create an immense
artificial deficit and the grand principles which
he, has laid down in excuse and defence of
his extraordinary measure." ..Now, though the
Emperor's
_motives might be 'iiiistaken at the
time,-,that, is to say, although .it ; might. at
first he supposed that his object was what
it seemed to be, simply to' promote an in-
creased commercial intercourse, between the; two
countries; what has since transpired can have>
left no doubt whatever, that the ends he ha 4 in,
view were not commercial but political,—that he
contemplated an act of aggression and aggran-
disement, and that such a- Treaty was considered
a very likely Means of drawing Engisincl--zut° -a
passive submissiOnto, if not a" compliance with his
ambitioui designs. The annexation itself were
bad enough,,--had; simply as such, giving territo-
rial and other advantageS to France whickrAilst
render her still more formidable and dangerous to,
Europe, especially when—as may oily too. soon
be the caseHshe has provoked the , hostility of
neighbouring Powers. But the manner in whioh
it is done .makes' it, stilt worse, giving it a chaise-.
ter of defiance, as well as investing' it with a v'eat.,
deal df p.olitic4 'perfidy and 'subtlety.. As one of
Ministerial ,contemporaries is • constrained to
confess, "when-we turn from the'thing itself to
its accessories—from the matte,r to the manner of
the transfer—we are compelled to say that , wet
cannot do otherwise than draw thence a conclu-
sion of the highest consequence as regaids ail our
future, relations with Louis NAP3LEON." That_
is to say, we caa heacefarth. have :no cotifidenct
in our -relations 'with one so" aggressive in -ills
designs, and so subtle in 'his polleY: Arid yet is
it with'such'an one' that Parlianient
tit sanotionla 'Treaty involving financialiages.
of the most serious, kind, and reqni,rl4.- the 404-
tinuance of a most oppressive an
d.ndixiit 0Yi.4.11
oi taxation, " hitherto only tolerated 4, 74.
. ,
sterns
nicestiity in time of war.
Let the immediate result,- in a. -fiscal point
of view, be what it may, practically it ,has

fact remains, that the French . Emperor
advanced to the possesSion of ' Satoy through
a long and very complicated train of that
which hero-worshippers style the morality • of
heroes, and ordinary mortals call perfidy and
falsehood. A solemn disclaimer of any desire far
territorial aggrandisement, or for any but moral
influence, was the notification the world received
of a plan, then undoubtedly formed, for grasping
a new province, and getting hold of the passes. of
the Alps. The allegation that the reluctance;

the people of Savoy to have their country aria-,
membered is the reason for not paying th,o respect
that had been intended to the claim,a of Switzer-.
land, crowns a pile of falsehood perhaps unparal-
leled in the history of even French diplomacy."
Such is now proved to be. the character of the
man against whose wiles it will behove the
Government and Parliament of England to be
constantly on the watch.
Another and equally serious element of this
complication into which the Coalition Cabinet Inks
drawn the country is the Reform Bill. They
have made it another means of at once diverting
attention from their mischievous foreign policy,
and. propitiating popular favour to their financial,
projects,—enabling them, as respects the latter,.
indeed, •to put forth the plea that those projects;,.
after all, were but temporary, as th,ey wished to,
leave theßeformed•Parliament "perfectly free and,
unfettered in dealing with the subject of taxation
next year." And this while it has to be written
of the fill under which that Parliament is to be
oonstructed—as we find it in the able and inde-
pendent columns from -which we have already
quoted—that " net one member in twenty affects
Seriously
believe that the country
will be
to
better governed, the finances more wisely admi-
nistered, or the public policy more elevated arid
stable, when the constituencies approach more
nearly to the character of a rabble,"—Mr. GLAD-
sToNE,'S fiscal devices, in the meanwhile, having,
" revived the well-founded alarm which was
created by Mr. BRIGHT'S menaces of a system of
confiscation applied to realised property,"----"d
" the total disconnection of taxation from represen-
tation constituting the most imminent of many
perils which are to be apprehended from the
vanity of one statesman and the interested timi-
dity of all his contemporaries." Such are again
the country's blessings under a 1
Administration 'ALVERSTOS

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