The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-05-07 00:00:00

OFF THE PORT.
Crusader, from Bremen.
SAILED.

May 2.
Ann Holzberg, M`Guire,
- Calcutta

Shamrock, Doane,
Philadelphia
Carolus, Butler New York
Everton, Longton Jamaica
National Guard, Matthews,
Calcutta
Samson, Robinson, City Point
Louisa, Kenify,Rort-au-Prince
Calliope, Goodwin Boston
British Banner. Hodenet,
Ceylon
Speedy, Whiting, Naples
Amiciata, Gortinache ...Narva
Great Britain, Flitt Quebec
Wilhelmine, Schaffer,
Petersburg
Grcitje. Hess Narva
Schembri Moretti Malta
Richard ill, Scott, Charleston
Corinthian, Surendson,
Trinidad

tt- May 5. •
evon, Gray Quebec
ahalpa,Wheeler, Valparaiso-
Corinthian (ss), Wardle, •
Trieste
Osprey (ss), Bertridgp
Rotterdam
Chlrles Chalouer,
Rio Janeiro
Victor, Schoottt Osten]
Johannes, Kohn Jamaica
Europa (rms), Leitch...Boston
G. Kendall, Farley Calcutta
Rowan Tree, Flarwell,Calcutta
T. B. Wales, Lincoln, Calcutta
Hamburg (ss), Speedy,
Bordeaux
City of Perth,Welsh ...Aarhus
Adolph, Pederson...Vera Cruz
Floating Cloud, Steele,
Rio Janeiro
FOREIGN PORTS.

May 6.'
Jutrinn, Tucker .....Wocsung

Imperatriz (as), Sharp, from Suez at Aden, and left April 14
for China.
Panama, Boyd, from Tutocorin at Cochin, and sailed March
16 for Mangalore.
James Russell, Sloan, hence; and Allies, Gardyne, from
Mauritius, both at Cochin.
Great Britain, Cochrane, from Moulmein; Deane, Brabner,
from Table Bay; Deva, Butler, from Port Blair; Highlander,
Shearman, from Bombay; and Isauella Harcus, Turner, from
Kurraehee, all at Calcutta. '
Shepherdess, Rogers, and Oriental, Nixon, both from Sings.•
pore at Akyab.
Fitzjantes, Hamilton, hence at Sydney.
African, Gibson, from London at Auckland.
Phomix, Brown, hence at Auckland, andleft for Wellington.
Tiber (as), Richards, from Malta pt Alexandria, and left for
Beyrout April 22.
Euphrosyne (as), Folland, from Malta at Alexandria, and
left for Beyrout April 24.
Lillias, Gilmore, from New Orleans at Trieste.
Magenta, Cochran, hence at Constantinople.
Sardinian (es), Jones, from Naples at Messina-, anll sailed for
Palermo. _

Dannbe (es), Parfitt, (min Zante at Messina, and sailed for
Liverpool.

• Julia Heyn, Simons, hence at Adelaide.
Glen Monarch, Williams ; Pride of the Seas, Brown ; Eagle,
Murphy; D. G. Webber, Jun., Leese; Sovereign of the Seas,
Crulkshank ; Beejapore, Dunning; and White Jacket, all hence
at Melbourne.
Cannala, Heim, from Calcutta at Melbourne.
Barkbill, Obey, Vivid, Mystery, and nu,:ilie, all lirnr, at
Monte Video.

John Davies, Rowlands; See Wave, Johnson ; Albinus,Wat.
son ; clutch'T ; Imogene, Williams ; Prince of Wales,
Mowatt; Colonist, Brown; Jane, Newman; Christalinc, Con,
dell ; and W. W. Scott, Lindsay, all hence at Rio Janeiro.
Gowavd, pouch; Cyntbian, Fox ; and Elizabeth Baxter, Pen.
rcath, all hence at Pernambuco.

Margaretta, Scott; Norval, Crosbie ; and Iceni, Steele, all
from Newfoundland at Pernambuco.
Fleetwing, Knight, from Babia ; and Robin
,Gray, from
Ascension, both at Pernambuco.
Ballarat, Jones, ;from London at Pernambuco, and sailed
April 1 for China.
Isles of the South, Grey, from Hobart Tcwn at Pernambuco,
and sailed April 5 for London.
Comloden Castle, Brown, and Spirit of the Times, Kleen,
both henoe at Bombay:
Atauasia, hence at Marseilles.
Piii,r, hence at Barcelona.
Il&ra (ss), Martytt, hence at Gibraltar, and cleared fax Malta.
Harrellerbert, Jones, hence at Paimbceuf.
Strombo (ss), Kelly, hence at Havre.
Pelican , hence at Dunkirk.
Aliv
Queen, Ne ton, hence at Texel. . .
Cultivator, Riiisell, and City of Baltiniore (ss), both hence at
New York.
Brazil, Blai'r, hence at Charleston.
Persian, Savage, from Aden at Mobile.
l'Aiinient, Irving, hence off Savannah, and proceeded to
Mobile.
Seaflower, Thornhill, hence at Boston.
Vigo (ss), hence at Halifax. '
James Nesmith, Watts ; Atlantic, Dismore ; Holyhead, Cole ;
William Libby, Bishop ; New Hampshire, Lord; Mountaineer,
Wilson; Empire, Lizzie Harward, and Nicholas Curwen, all
hence at New Orleans.
Australasian (se), hence at Portland.
Light Brigade, from Pernambuco' and Gitana, Prendergast,
from Cienfuegos, both at New York.
Guayaquil (ssh Woolcot, hence at St. Vincent, Cape Verds,
and left for Valparaiso.
Criteria, Baddeley, hence at St. Michael's.
Cape (ss), Leslie, from Alexandria at Malta, and sailed for
Liverpool.
Euphrates (ss), Reed, hence at Malta.
Pactolus (as)', Carroll, hence at Malta, and sailed for Alex-
andria.
, . Danube (ss), Parfitt, from Patras at Zante, and sailed April
2,5 for Messina and Liverpool.
Pacific, Appleby, hence at Madeira, and left for Lisbon.
Viscount Sandell, from London at NOW Zealand. '
Araminta, Roberts, hence at St. Paul de Learla.
Grassmere, Trueman, from Cocsneda; ltothay; Armstrong,
from Natal; and Robert an' Alexander, Moore, hence, all at
Mauritius.
Myhtery, hence at Monte Vidao.
Joseph, from Cardiff for River Plats at Buenos Ayres.
Evangeline, hence at Calcutta.
Typhoon, M,Kay, from Aden at Akyab:
Herman. Albert, Potjiyd ; Oniko y Johan, Groenburg; Lin-
wood, MtKenzie ; and Mentor, Peterson, all hence at Rio
Grande.
Ellen Stuart, hence off Baltimore.
SPOKEN. .
A large screw steamer borind *est; Apiil '29 ' 46 N... 44 W:
Africa (s), boned west„-April 6"' '• " • " " 41 N... 69 W.
Asia (4), bound West, May 2 5l N... 25 W.
FaVouYite, bound 'west, April 9 46 N... 44 W.
. .

- with ids of maintopinait and foretopgallantmast- ...--
.
Eliza Hands, bound, east 18 6...32 W.
Julia. Shields for Tarragona, April 25 2 N... 11 W.
Tippoo Saib, of Liverpool, bound south, April2B 13 N... 26 W.
Vanderbilt (se), bound West, April 6. " " 42 N... 64 W.
William Fairbairn, April 17 4 N... 15 NV:

. , OUTPORTS.
Mermaid, White, from New Zealand off Penzance.
Lina, from Singapore off St. Catherine's.
Mary Stewart, Flint, from Oporto at Waterford.
Mannaverna, from Plymouth at Dublin.
Leven, for Batavia; Elizabeth Rok, for St. Joim, N. 8.; and
Elizabeth; for St. Thomas. all sailed from Greenock.
Montmorency, from Melbourne, passed Brighton.
Haiard, hence for Stockholm, off Isle of Wight.
Alice Maude, Robertson, from Gopaulpore for London off
Scilly.
Diu., May 5.---Arrived and passed : Margaret Dunday,
from London to Sydney ; Princess Louisa, London to Barba-
does; Tig, London to Quebec; Vere, London to Jamaica :
Robinsons, London to Alexandria; Elizabeth Green, Jamaica
to London; Rajah of Sarawak,, Hang Bong to London; lmp-
etus, Barbadoes to London; Endaunted, Penang to London ;
Cleveland, Shields td Hong Kong ; Armenia, Shields to Venice ;
James Bryant, Shields to Rio Janeiro; Mary Hall, Shields to
Point de Galls ; Scottish Mail, Shields to Rouen ; Bullfinch,
Singapore to London; Palestine, Sunderland to Athens; Beza-
liel, Algoa Bay to London. 6th : Bride of the Seas, China to
London; Token, Africa to London; Heiden, West Indies to
Amsterdam; Ravensworth, Shields to Calcutta ; Hermann de
Duyter, Batavia for Amsterdam ; Syrene, Shields to Bridport ;
Release, Oporto to London ' • Queen of the West, Milo to Lon-
don : Angreuse, Terciera to London; Progress, Jamaica to
London ; Belvidere, Sunderland to Calcutta ; M. Petar, London
to Kurrachee ; Point, Jamaica to London; Coral Queen, Algoa
Bay to London; Amaranth, London to St. Helena : William
Bekman, London to Quebec; Knight Herald, London to
Calcutta.
GRAVESEND. May 5.---Arrived : Wave, and Irene, from
Adelaide ; Wave of Life, Sydney ; Montgomery, Melbourae ;
Belle of the Ocean, Shanghsi; Margaret, Algoa Bal• ; Lady
Chimera Calcutta; C.tilicu._ttaA:rriSyaeitile.d
I:
sNa'beericiafoarnJdanlicray!
riertittuev;
Catherine_ne Barham, Jamaica ; 'Wings of the Wind, 'Bombay ;
as‘,vklist and Dolphin, from sL Michaels : Francis, Man -
Raiah of Saraw'ak,le,Sines;
uanpore, Macao; froma and
Wycliffe,S
tet t ,
Elizabeth, Speedwell, and Port
Royal, Jamaica •
ISittai.:
,eadn :a ; lel
Crescent,e ti , fo
Bahia
a h Portia ;
Bullfinch, singapore ;
Christine Winkel, from St.
DominusPlL'lAliLpia u;
' t D 3 'a
1 e May
o 15 gongn*b—rk rd' .;J:end .81 ,
Toina;
stnalintn, Havnna ; Cassino,
; nsatvian, Grensen, stein ;
Un, Manzanillo ;
PAalel"xfmtnoder II
Layzzg aAnl;e
xGaenbartnidalr,
.4rchitecy, Odessa • Julie,
• Marrs, Georgia }
Euxine, Colombo for Amsterdam. *
Hrgeermainnda
hEdnaeiirly;,Odessa
Salonica;
QUEENSTOWN, May 5.--Arrived : Sarah Maria, from
; ' Catania Me'.
Fisherman, Catania for
Laguna; Edinburgh (es), New York, and Persia (rms),ll
and Halifax, both for Liverpool and proceeded; Clarendon,
Glasgow; owGe°;
Crane, Odessa.
•
Wansarone, Muy 5.---Arrived : Ceres, Holsen, from Len-
thenhafen ; TWannette, Altona ; Amable Olympe, and Bonne
Mere, Nantes.
MARITIME EXTRACTS.

LiTutroot, May 6.
The Edinburgh (ss), Kennedy, from New York at this port,
with $101,113 in specie. .

BOMB AI, April 11: The bargne Diana is reported to be
wrecked on the western end of the Baragarcn Sands, Rangoon
coast; crew saved.

SYDNEY, Feb. 30: The Lady Denison, arrived here from
Launceston, saw a ship running to the southward off the
Pigeon-house, with loss of mizestopmast and foretopgallant-
mast ; the foretopmast appeared to be jury-rigged. Feb. 27 ;
Her Majesty's steamer Cordelia, which returned to Moreton
Bay Feb. 10, after a fruitless search for the crew of the Sap-
phire, found at Point Molle the remains of an old wreck and
some coal bags. March 13 : No tidings having been heard oT
the Sapphire, of Liverpool, from Port Curtis for Madras;
wrecked in Torres Straits Sept. 3, her Majesty's Acamer Cor,
delii was sent in search, but returning unsuccessful, they were

..4ranean, to call

Nsw YouK, April 25: The Fortuna, for Bremti, put back to
Galveston for repairs, having been in contact wih the Houston
April 11, when leaving Galv'eston for Lirerpool.
The Helen Lirvisay, from Kooria Meoria ritMau'itittS for the
Unitra KingdoM;Put in for repairs, havinienecuntered a hur-
ricane March 20, iu lat. 18 6., len. 1 F.
Teazer, Campbell, from Bombay et Mairitius, encoun-
t2red a hurricane March 19 and 20, in lat. V ii., lon. 67 E.,
when fore and mainmasts went by the board.

Th'e Canrobert, which has been on shore en English Bank,
was passed off Fort's in tow of H.M.S. Curago4. by the R.M.S..
Mosey, from River Plate at Rio Janeiro.

NEW YORK, April 24: A large ship was seen ithorc, April 1,
on GinFaitti Head Ground, apparently' stripped lir wrecker,.

ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE. •

BENEFICES AND APPOINTMENTS VACANT

RECTORIES

Berkley, Somerset : dio. Bath and Wells : val. 2300 with resi-
dence : pats. Trititees of Sir C. Mordaunt, Bart.: Rev. H
T. Wheeler, dec.
Llanmadock, Glamorganshire dio. St. David's : val. £ll2
with residence : pat. Lord Chancellor : Rev. P. Pearce, dec
Shotley, Suffolk : die. Norwich : val. £604 with residence
pat. Marquis cf Bristol : Rev. J. A. Smith, des.
Urney and-Annagelliffe : dio. Kilmore: Rev. Dr. Hogg, germ
'Wiartington, Essex : dio. Rochester : val. £333 with maiden& :
pat. Majorlienry Court: Rev. C.. A. Campbell, dec.
TICARAGE.

Iwerne Minster 'v. Hinton C., Margaret Marsh C., and East
Orchard C., Dorset: dio. Salisbury : val. £306 pats. D.
and C. of Windsor : Rev. W. Blennerhassett, dec..
PERPETUAL CURACIES.

Monkswoojl, Moumouthshire : dio. Llandaff : val. £€9 : pat.
Duke of Beaufort : Rev. S. C. Baker, prom.
Notlk7}llll, Essex : dio. Rochester : pat. the Vicar of Rom-

ford : Rev. J. Harrison Bell, prom:
CURACIES.
Atcham, Shropshire dio. Lichtcld cith a title.
Burnham, Bucks: dio. Oxford.
Camberwell, Surrey : dio. 'Winchester.
Carnrnenellis, Cornwall dio. Exeter with a title.
Davenport; Si. James : dio. Exeter : stipend LSO.
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Gellygaer, Glamorganshire : dio. Llandatt
Hinckley, Leicestershire : dio. Peterborough.
Luton, Christ Church, Beds : dio. Ely.
Moordown and Parley,'Hants : die. Winchester.
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Pimlico, St. Barnabas : dio. London : stipend £lOO with rooms,
Raeunds, Northamptonshire : dio. Peterborough : stipend LlOO,
Steeping, Little, co. and dio. Lincoln.
CHAPLAINCY. _ _

Usk House of Correciion:ltioamc;itilEhire : dio. Llamdaff
Rev. S. C. Baker, prom. •
MASTERsnir 5.

Burton Grammar School TZssistni Mastership : salary £BO
with board and lodging.
1/13tford Royal Naval School, New Cross : 3rd Classical : Rev.
A. J. Perry, prom.
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MOYDAY, MAY 7, 1860.

THE DAY'S NEWS.

Our railways are perhaps as good a test as
anything of the national progress ; and they-con-
tinue to have, on all the principal lines, a grow.
ing increase of traffic. On sixteen of the chief
railways of England; we observe the amount of
the last week's registered returns, as compared
with those of the corresponding week of last year,
exhibits an increase of £34,279,--beirig as much
as £335,297 for the week this year, as against
£301,027 for that of the previous year. The
London and North-Western's increase is from
£71,984 for the week, to £79,526 ; the Great
Western's from £30,050 to £31,956; the Great
Northern's.fromi2o,s3s to £26,203 ; the North
Eastern's from £32,724 to £38,086 ; the Midland
from
.£34,100 to £40;249; and the Lancashire
and Yorkshire kyOni £30,010 to. £33,230. There
is One remarkable exCeption. The London and
Brighton presents a decrease of nearly £4OO upon
the week. But this may probably be accounted
for by some special reason. Au interest which, in
one division of the United Kingdom alone, thus
produces more than seventeen millions a-year,
must certainly be regarded as of the highest
national importance,

The late rash attempt in Spain to disturb the
reign of Queen Isabella has evidently had the
effect of consolidating her throne. Not only has
it shown the impotency of the (so-called) Pre-
tender's party, but her rival and opponent him-
self, and his royal brother also, have been forced
to capitulate for escape from a fatal termination
to their career by a renunciation, at once and for
ever, of all claims to the Spanish Crown. The
intelligence already announced remains uncon-
tradicted, that they have spontaneously offered
their abdication. They have further promised to
renew the abdication on their arrival in a foreign
country, and to write to their brother Don Juan,
requesting his adhesion.
The want of a regular diplomatic agent for this
country at Rome has long been felt to be most
inconvenient, and in the present critical condition
of the States of the Church, and of Naples, and of
Italy generally, it is evidently most disadvanta-
geous to her Majesty's Government. When,
therefore, our Foreign Minister is applied to for
copies of despatches relative to the administration
of the Roman States, he may well feel puzzled
how to explain his intercourse with a sovereignty
with which we have no regular diplomatic
relations. Rome is so bound up with Italy and
Naples, that it must be very difficult to maintain
the well-informed position we ought to do, under
our present isolated circumstances. Any such
new complication in. ItalT as Rome and Naples
might combine to occasinn, would no doubt
imperil the peace of Europe. And it
cannot be denied that, as, Lord John Russell
said on Friday night, hoe Majesty's Ministers
have the approbation of the country in what
they have just done, as it would seem, regarding
the kingdom of Naples. "The Neapolitan. Go-
vernnient had applied to the British Government
to use its good offices Ira Sardinia to restrain

Given np Is lost. It row appears that after the "nt•,- flt et tlac expcci i,, t(1 (.'Utuaidl,
1.1:4,•1 o . • O-.11 el, when their
their numbs,. , h , ,v, n murdered by the black,, the et'a, ii " '
f3ll in with the M•oina, titibcr-laden, which- la ifl ."l co operation was al,ked in that manner, they had
aine.lshind, in the Straits, wherc he ...a., ,I .k(-
-°°
9ff I
and tlity succeeded in bringing her in • .
ra.Zt'a Oi.-7.134 1 uetight to remonstrate, as they had .done, with
Port Curtis, where she now I, ... Watt rleggea. 7;eXi ha- ' :,' .., , , .
ti.Te Acapontan Government, respccting the mode
here in the steamer +-
....,a, el•.n riitii traNing been bnight
.
logged 'vessel.
..etir.tt to ill it, port The hull of a 44- ;id'. _which it carried on. its! -own government."
-
T we. "
.....po..i.cntly lien-n.lO to .500 tons, was see hear
...; ..,• '
.el Bi'i i'eli. 13. The David Wfver, &Om A.delates ter 3.. IV. -211 wa-,- the statement of' Lord John Russell
.
raWaraiiiA vii ich pit in here ,-s.lareli 10, to 'repair dasnap Sll6- tO" which we refer ; and as far a it goe:.; 11-
tai.het'i altrino• a•hea- .F ' ''g • "rre which the Fhp had . , .
_.
, ~,,, gale co. ...., Q 1 ...
been kept up with great dillienity, the bilge water haviag got certainly 'satisfactory.
amongst thelitic &list and ballast. The rumour of a
The Pear!, Calvin, from Cardiff at Milford for Liv•rpool, .. -
coneli,•'•
town in with mainmast carried away.
Lt ,--',0!..,, April 26: The Minho (ss), for .Liv,rpool, will ".
bably wait for the Danube (is), from the Uediv-
in and take her home.
LLoyuls, May J-: T'
cutta, gro,- -me Fort George, from Li•expool.for Cal-
-.id..,1 011 Diamond sand, and boat, .ut to lighten
her -, ,„
..... 1 -•,. Skerryvot e, of Liverpool, from Newastle, .N. '.5V,,
; I for Melbourne, was burnt oil Sydney Heads Math 11.

iioaty having actually been
_..uect between France and Denmark is net

only revived, hut begins to be credited, even in
quarters where it was de. niedbefore. The official an-.
nouncement that Prussia will interfere once more
in the affairs of Schleswig-Holstein, and in opposi-

tion to the Danish claims in those Duchies, has not
improbably been occasioned by the intelligence
cf that treaty ; while Prussian interference, on
the other hand, will only serve as a pretext for
Denmark calling in the aid of France, into whose
arms, in fact, it is most likely, not Denmark only,
but Sweden and Norway also, will be induced to
throw themselves.

The Australian mail has brought somewhat
disastrous commercial intelligence. Several firms
of large business and old standing at Melbourne
have stopped payment; and as they all have had
more or less extensive dealings with this country,
their failures may very probably be felt among
some of our own mercantile houses. As a set off
to this unfavourable news, however, there are
again most encouraging accounts from the gold
districts. The discovery of another field, of sur-
passing richness, on the Turelut River, has caused
the gold fever to set in again with as great
intensity, as ever. As many as fourteen hundred
diggers had already hurried to the spot, some
.
of whom had found nuggets in profusion and of
extraordinary weight.
The Times speaks out on the embezzlement
affair at the Union Bank ; the most appalling
feature in which, it considers, is the slur it casts
• upon the general system under which this sank
and others are managed. It has not arisen from
any palpable negligence—" We are informed that
the directors and manager had taken every pre-
caution which the long experience of commercial
men had suggested as necessary to insure abso-
lute safety ; but that, despite of all these precau-
tions, upwards of a quarter of a million of money
was filched away from under their very
noses," which is the very worst theory, it

is declared, for their own interests' sake, that the

magnates of banking and commerce could set
up and maintain. Then, as matters stand, the

outward semblance of respectability would seem
to be the most unfavourable symptom about any
man who applies for our confidence. The poor
rogues are, comparatively speaking, harmless if
not useful members of so3iety. In our dealings
with them we are upon our guard. The really
dangerous person is the man who lives in a quiet
house, in a quiet way, apparently within his
means, who pays scot and lot with the most
admirable punctuality, and who in appearance
walks about the world the living incarnation of
all the virtues which are attributed to us all
after our decease by the venal chisel of the dealer
in funeral tablets." , So that the leading journal
can come to no other conclusion, than that " the
only defence which can be offered to the attacks
of respectable men is to proceed in all business
matters upon the necessary though unlovely
principle of not trusting anybody more than can
be absolutely helped."
It will be seen by one of our latest telegrams,
that the Pope has made an appeal to "the faithful"
in behalf of the new Roman loan of 50,000,000
francs. The subscription has been opened in
the capitals of Europe.
The Observer of yesterday—speaking, of course,
in the interest of the Goverment—calls the second
reading of the Reform Bill, without a division,
" one of those inexorable facts' which no subse-
quent ingenuity can argue down,"—adding that,
while it is a step in the progress of the measure,
"it will serve to get rid of the many rumours
which were industriously put forth about divi-
sions and differences of opinion in the Govern-
ment, which were weak inventions' of the
enemy, or more frequently of the false friends of
reform. The divisions in committee, however,
will put every member in his right place, and
show sufficiently to the constituencies who are to
be relied upon and who are not." But this may
he taken either for or against. There are quite
as many constituencies, we opine, that would
wish their representatives to be " relied upon " to
oppose so revolutionary a change as a £6 fran-
chise, as there are who would wish them to

support it
It will be seen by our telegram from Queenstown
that the Great Britain, Captain Gray, has arrived
there from Melbourne in 59 days,—one of the
shortest passages on record. She brings nearly
500 passengers, and upwards of 6,000 ounces of
gold.

As the Reform Bill is now to go into committee,
where its details are to be adjusted—.-and no slight
adjustment mild they indeed receive, are the
measure can become a sound and safe one,—it is
most inipOrtatit to bonSider, in what respects its
tendencies are the Most mischievous, and how any
of them may be removed or corrected. The sting
of the bill, it is on almost all hands admitted,
resides in the dangerously low franchise that is
proposed. As Mr. Gladstone truly observed,
" The real objection taken to the bill was the £6
franchise; That Was the gist of the complaint
against the bill. Every other oftence was par-
donable, but this was unpardonable, and there
were hon: members who said that four men out of
five would feel ala ini and horror at the proposal,
on the ground that it will sweep away the con-
stituency by the introduction of an overwhelming
mass of voters of the lower orders—immense in
quantity, bad in quality, and able to outweigh
and out-preponderate other classes of the consti-
tuency." There is no doubt that such a complaint
is but too well founded—that there is only too
much cause for such apprehension and alarm; and
Mr. GLADSTONE himself, therefore, found it far
more necessary, as an apologist of the measure,
to argue against the evident immensity of the
quantity of such a mass of new voters as it pro-
poses to create, rather than against the but
too palpable badness of their q►cality. The
actual effect must of necessity be to dete-
riorate the character of the constituencies,—
this is acknowledged even by many who yet
support the Bill as a ministerial measure. ' The
extent of such deterioration may, perhaps, be a
matter of question; but of the fact itself, substan-
tially, there can be no doubt whatever. The
additiOn of the lower-class voters in the towns
may, as Ministers and their supporters contend,
not at first exceed two hundred thousand ; or they
may, as the Conservative opponents of so low a
franchise maintain, be twice that number. But
in whatever proportion they may be, they will
assuredly deteriorate, from their consisting, gene-
rally and unavoidably, of those classes among
whom ignorance and poverty, and even vice itself,
are found more especially to prevail. Well did
Mr. WALPOLE warn the House on this most
momentous of all the provisions of the measure.
" The length and strength of your new sys-
tem, if we are to have it," he declared,
" must depend upon the accuracy of the informa-
tion and data upon which you proceed, on the
soundness of the principles upon which you act,
and upon the width of the policy by which you
arc guided. Whether you have.such information
now, he continued, I cannot pretend to say. But
this I do say, that the only principles upon which
you can proceed, with a chance of settling this
question satisfactorily, are those principles which
will not base the franchise on the lowest, the
poorest, and the most uneducated classes ; but

upon principle:, which will give to intelligence
and to education their proper weight in the
Constitution, *hick will keep in b—
all your institutions one
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representation with property,

..,cation, with virtue, and with intelligence."

Now we are apprehensive, in common with
several others, besides Mr. WALPOLE, who
touched upon this most important part of the
case in the recent debate, that there is only too
much reason to doubt the accuracy of " the
information and data " upon which Ministers
have .proceeded in fixing the franchise so low as
a£6 rental. It is to be feared that there has not
been sufficiently close inquiry into the details of
so low a qualification for so high a privilege.
In the first place, if rating is to be a test, it will
very often be the case that instead of £6, the
rental may be only £4,—though either sum would
probably constitute something very like household
suffrage. And in connection with the subject of
rating, ought it not to be carefully inquired
into, and correctly ascertained, how much, not
merely of poverty, but of pauperism, there will
come to be enfranchised Even at present, under
a £lO rental qualification, hundreds and thousands
of voters have to be excused from their poor-rates
on the ground of their own poverty. How much
more so, then, would this be the case under a £6
rental? The occupiers of all £lO tenements that
are separately rated can now claim to be put on the
regiSter as electors ; and it appears to be the inten-

tion of the ministerial measure td'placethe occupiers
of £6 tenements in the same position which, in
large towns, we repeat, will be tantamount to house-
hold suffrage ; and hence, no doubt, the anxiety
of such Radicals and Republicans as Mr. BRIGHT
for its success. But there would seem to be some
dispute as to the effect of the bill in its present
shape upon this rating question altogether. Rating
is to be made a means of registration ; but the
actual payment of rates in connection with
representation is not to be insisted upon. This is
Mr. Vv-itLroLE's conclusion, and he thus explains
it :—" The noble lord (Lord JOHN RUSSELL) has
told us that he does not alter the law, because by
the third clause he provides that all provisions
respecting the rates and the payment of rates
shall be applicable to the new £6 franchise
prima facie, therefore, the noble lord may establish
rating as a qualification, but you cannot do that
if you go down to £6, and I will tell you why.
By the 13th and 14th of the Queen the landlord
may be rated and the occupier may still have his
vote. By the 13th and 14th of the Queen the
landlord may compound for the tenants' rates at
two-thirds of the value, or if he pays at the
beginning of the year, at one-half the value.
Now, take the Reform Act and this act together,
and what is the consequence? Why that every one
of these rental qualifications, at any rate below
£8 value, may be rated in the name of the land-
lord, and the landlord may pay two-thirds or in
some cases one-half the value, and yet these
tenants will have the right to vote, though not
contributing to the local taxation the same as
their fellow-citizens. The noble lord then most

materially alters the law, and he is doing that
which I undertake to say will be absolute ruin to
our representative system if you allow it to go
much further on—namely, extending. the franchise
to those who are entirely to be exempt from those
burthens which the rest of their fellow-citizens
are required to bear." Hera, then, would be a
consequence of the measure which, professedly, it
does not contemplate, infinitely more serious and
more mischievous than any which it does con-
template.. The_ question, therefore, arises—Have
Ministers been sufficiently informed on these
rating points We very much doubt if they
have ; and yet we see what vital consequences
hinge upon them.

One of our townsmen, we understand, has ad-
dressed a letter to Earl GREY upon this subject
of the poor-rate, as connected with representa-
tion. Earl GREY is chairman of the Select Com-
mittee of the Howie of Lords, now sitting to in.
quire into the necessary data of the proposed £6
franchise; and we quite concur in our intelligent
fellow-toThlsman's view of the importance of in-
cluding in the inquiry all such information as
overseers of the poor and other parochial autho-
rities can furnish, bearing upon the question at
issue,—a question so directly affecting the charac-
ter of the constituencies by whom the great
council of the nation is to bo chosen, by which
its laws are to be framed, and its whole rule and
government to be controlled.