The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-06-12 00:00:00

Emperor Napoleon w,ould, demand a further
accession of brie not Stated."
Louis Napoleon All Certainly have something
-
to say. in Ihe finaliettlement bf the question ; and
the Opinurne of yesterday, gives sub-
stance to auk assertion that France has, with the
consent of Piedmont, accepted the mediation pro-
posed by Naples: I.,According to the same autho-
rity, the conditions of the mediation are—a liberal
Constitution for Naples, and a separate govern-
ment for Sicily under a Prince of. the House of
Bourbon. On the latter point, however, the Two-
Sicilies are to be consulted, in the mode now so

popular, and in this case an absolute rejection of
the proposal might easily be anticipated.
It would be curious to know what are really
the designs of the Court of Rome, in the desperate
efforts which are being made for the formation of
a large Papal army. Is there still a hope that in
coming times of trouble the Legations may be
recovered. Recruiting for the Pope appears to
be going on in the United States as well as in
Ireland. The Irish Evening News states. that
600 Irish-Americans have arrived in Vienna, via
Hamburg, en route to join the army of the Pope.
A second and a third batch of rowdies were
expected to follow.
Savoy and Nice are to be formally annexed to
France at the conclusidii of the present week ;
and arrangements are being made in Paris for a
triumphal celebration of the event. There is to
be a grand military review. ATe Deunt will be
sung in the cathedral of Notre Dame, and the
public edifices will be illuminated. Diplomatic
gossip is already busy with the approaching
meeting between Louis Napoleon and the Prince
Regent of Prussia, and which it is expPcted to
take place at Baden, on Friday or Saturday next.
Telegraphic advices state that a civil war had
broken out at Lebanon. Thirty Christian villages
have been destroyed, and the Turkish troops were
joining in the massacre of the Christians at Sidon.
The circumstance, although no doubt exaggerated,
is much to be regretted, as it affords a colourable
pretence for the representations of Russia, and to
some extent indeed justifies her interference.

By an arrival in the Mersey, on Sunday een-
ing, we have news from the west coast of Africa,
but it is unimportant. The country was gene-
rally healthy, but trade dull. Palm oil was plen-
tiful. Cotton was being cultivated on the Gold
Coast.

The Great Eastern, on Saturday, made a success-
ful trial trip, and fully answered ex.pectatiuns.
The. people of New York seem to be perfectly
wild at the anticipation of seeing the Great
Eastern in their harbour. One speculative gen-
tleman has offered the directors five per cent. on
the whole cost of the vessel, if they will allow
him to have the use of her for a month, and this
per centage alone will amount to upwards 'of
£20,000.

We regret to perceive that the threatened
builders' strike in London has again occasioned
proceedings in one of the metropolitan police-
courts, where, on Saturday, three workmen were
charged with having endeavoured by threats to
compel Mr. Anley, a builder, to discharge twa
men in his employ. These two men were work-
ing under the " declaration," and the defendants,
at least two of them, had gone up as a deputation
to Mr. Anley, and on behalf of the workmen
generally had threatened to strike unless their ob-
noxious companions were immediately discharged.
Mr. Corrie, the magistrate, held these proceedings
to be illegal, and, after delivering an elaborate
judgment, he sentenced two of the defendants to
one month's imprisonment with hard labour.
NotiCe of appeal was given, and properly ;O—for
it is neither pleasing or becoming to find a single
magistrate rendering an authoritative decision dn
a point on which the judges of the land shave
given adverse decisions.

.POST MORTEM.

CONCEIVED in faction, and brought forth in
insincerity, the ill-fated Reform measure of 1860,
breathed its last yesterday. Its course has been
languid, and its latter end was peaceful. With
but few, if any, real friends in its lifetime, it has
expired without sympathy or sorrow from those
whose painful duty it was to attend upon its ,
latest moments. Even its aged parent seems to
have closed its lifeless eyes without emotion.
On the last melancholy occasion of the sort, in
the session of 1854, history bears record that he
withdrew the unfortunate measure of that year
with tears in his eyes. They may have been
crocodile's tears—the history saith not. Yester-
day there was no such betrayal of parental weak-
ness. The fond heart, which for the first or second
time beholds the demise of a favourite child, is
naturally deeply moved. The warmest feelings
may, however, in course of time, become blunted;
and in the case of a misbegotten, misshapen,.and
untoward offspri n g,the last scene of all may produce,
even in aparent's breast, a feeling of grateful resig-
nation, rather than of sorrow. In this there is
nothing unnatural, unwise, or undignified. It
follows a natural law, and constitutes a wise
provision and safeguard. The Reform Bill has
long been a curse to its author ; and we can
easily believe that today he breathes more freely
since it exists no longer. It has ceased from
troubling, and its father is at rest. This feeling
of relief must, no doubt, have been sympathised
in, more or less, by the general body of the
Ministerialists, on whose spirits the hideous
measure had sat like a nightmare. We can
picture to our mind's eye the warm congratula-
tions and shaking of hands that followed at the
first private meeting of Lords PALMERSTON and
RUSSELL, and others of the Cabinet, after the
death. " What a blessing it's all over," says
PAM to RUSSELL. " Yes," rejoins the latter, "it
suffered so much internally, and seemed so far
beyond the reach of medicine, that we have reason
to rejoice it has gone." " Cheer up," interpolates
BRIGHT, " never mind, we shall have another
by-and-by, and perhaps a better ; it wasn't strong
enough for my taste, at any rate—the next, if it be
mine, shall be a roarer." "Be that as it may,"
adds Mr. GLADSTONE, its removal out of the
way is a godsend,—pity, it wign!t done sooner ; it
will give me more time to correct myifinancial
miscalculations ; and, after all, you know -we
didn't want it—the country didn't carejor it—in
short, it was a mistake from first to liitst." And
thus we imagine these precious coalitionists may,
for 'their own several reasons, rejoice in the
demise of their unlucky offspring. It has ever
been so with the Whigs in office, that tlq.7.have
neither redeemed the pledges they have given, nor
fulfilled the promises they have made, when in
opposition. For the third time within eight years
Lord JOHN RUSSELL has produced . and shelved a
reform bill. The cry, however, is " still they
come." We are positively promised the infliction
of another whig reform bill, to be introdUced at-
the earliest possible period next session. It will
be number four, and that, in all probability, not
the last ; for a whig reform bill seems :to have
become an indispensable nuisance—:a necessary
evil.

how long can the country afford to stand all
this Whig trifling ? is the subject of the amend-
ment and extension of our system of Parliamentary
representation so unimportant that the people of
this country will tamely permit Lord jotrN Thus.-
SELL to toy with it for mere party puiposes at. this
rate ? Is the kind of Reform we need so ill
un4erstood and so vaguely defined that it can
scarcely be folioed apd reduced .to a practical
measure ? ,irethe leaders of parties so ignorant..
or so incompetent that it is really beyond their
natural powers to lick this subject into a sound
Onapassal?le bin ?" It cannot he so. Everybody
feels satisfied that the difficulty of the situation