The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-10-13 00:00:00

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and enacts that " differences of religion shall not entail
differences in the enjoyment and exercise of civil and
political rights, and that all disabilities heretofore
weighing on Israelites and •non-Catholics are from
henceforward abolished."
It will be seen that the French Government has
addressed a series of inquiries to the Chambers of Com-
merce throughout France, to obtain their opinion as to
the advisableness of anticipating the dates fixed by the
commercial treaty for the admission at the reduced
duties of the various classes of British manufactures.
The Chamber of Commerce of Rouen has replied in
favour of maintaining the delays to their utmost extent,
while that of Boulogne which has always taken a most
active part in the support and dissemination of enlightened
commercial views, and is presided over by M. Adam, a
leading member of the Commercial Reform Asso-
ciation, has expressed quite the opposite opinion.
By a telegram received last night, we learn that a
has been semi-officially announced that the French and
English plenipotentiaries were yesterday to sign a con-
vention, containing a new series of articles inserted in
the French Customs Tariff. By these important new
arrangements, refined sugar will be taxed forty francs
Per 100 kilogrammes, The import duty on machines,
tools, and instruments, will be reduced to nine francs
per 100 kilogrammes. The duties on earthenware will
be a maximum duty of 20 per cent., which, in four
years, will be reduced to 15 per cent. Ordinary pottery
will be subject to a reduced duty; and porcelain to a
duty of 10 per cent.
Sonic of the chiefs of the Roman Catholic hierarch'
of Ireland, and a large 1104 of the clergy of that com-
munion, have been paying the hotiOttts of martyrdom td
the memory of the unfortunate young frishrtiert Who have
lost their lives in contending for the preservation tlf the
temporal power of the Bishop of Rome. It will be
observed from one of our foreign letters that the Bishop
of Orleans has been engaged in asimilar function the
cathedral of his city.
Our readers will find some highly interesting details
relative to the combats on the Volturno, in our Mila*
letter. If any of the statenients iii the letter of Ottr
correspondent, who writes to some extent—and it is one
of the great advantages of his letters at the preseta
moment—from a Royalist point Of View, should appear
to be rather highly coloured, it niust be remenibered
that accounts received from writers who looli at the State
of affairs from the opposite point of view, are ofteri
far indeed from being exempt from the charge of
exaggeration.
The Perseveranza, of Milan, announces that Baron
Winspeare, the Neapolitan Minister at the Court of
Turin, has protested against the part taken by the
Piedmontese soldiers in the battle of the Vulturno•
The journal adds that Victor Emmanuel's Government
intends very shortly to explain to Europe the motives of
its conduct.
A case has just came before the Huddersfield magic;
trates which affords an additional proof of the tyrantlY
of trades unions and the stupid subserviency of their
dupes. A " deputation" from Oldham went to a mill,
the owner of which was not a member of a certain
society, and the deputation induced some men to leave
their work without notice. Seven days' imprisonment
will perhaps be a good lesson.
Her Majesty and the Prince Consort left Cobourg on
Wednesday morning, and arrived at Mayence the some
evening. The Queen and Prince will arrive at Brussels,
and embark for England, on Monday.
A case under the Merchant Shipping Act, of consi-
derable importance to shippers of goods, has been heard
before the Lord Mayor at the Mansion House. Mr.
Lewis Stewart, a merchant of Cornhill, was charged
with having delivered certain cases containing inflam-
mable and explosive substances, to be conveyed by the
Peninsular and Oriental Steam Company to Singapore,
without giving the caution required in such instances
concerning the nature of the goods. The penalty
according to the act is £lOO, with liability for all
damage caused by accident, from fire or explosion.
Scientific evidence was called as to the properties of the
articles complained of (sweet spirit of nitre and sul-
phurous ether), in order to show that they came within
the terms of that part of the act applicable to such
goods. At the close of a long and careful examination,
a decision was given against the defendant.
If the work of education were only carried out with
half the energy the subject is discussed and theorised on
in pamphlet and on platform, the schoolmaster would
indeed be abroad. But, unfortunately, as too often her
pens, while the doctors are laying their heads together,
and canvassing the mode of treatment, the poor patient
is dying. At the annual meeting of the Canterbury
Diocesan Education Society, under the presidency of his
Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, which was held at
Croydon on Thursday, Mr. Hardy, M.P., took part in
the proceedings, and delivered an able and practical
address on the subject of secular education, in reference
to the new propositions of the committee of the Privy •
Council. At another meeting, held at Birmingham, the
Recorder of that town and Mr. Adderley, M.P., deli-
vered their sentiments on University education, showing
what it is and what it ought to be, with suggestions for
perfecting the system.
The Marylebone vestry have at length decided on
taking the initiative in the introduction of street tiara-
ways to the metropolis. Three candidates, with as
many distinct plans, appeared at the special meeting 00
Thursday, to assert the superiority of his own, and pre-
pared to prove it by experiment. Mr. Train, Mr. cards,
and the General Omnibus Company, pleaded the merits
of their schemes ; but Mr. Train, with his charac-
teristic confidence, declared that he knew more
about street railways than all the lawyers in the
kingdom, and that no act of Parliament was necessary
for their construction; and moreover, to justify his self'
confidence, he volunteered, as he did at Birkenhead, to
lay down, at his own charges, four miles of tramway,
take it up at any time he was required to do so, and
indemnify the Vestry against all consequences. After
some warm discussion on the subject, a motion to the
effect that permission be granted to Mr. Train to cart,'
ont his experimental line, as it appeared to be the most
definite and satisfactory, was agreed to.
We regret to announce the fact that the long illness
of Sir Harry Smith terminated fatally yesterday morn'
ing, in London, at five minutes before eight, at his
residence in Eaton-place West.

A meeting of the combined Boards of the Thames
and Mersey Marine Insurance Company was held at the
London office on Thursday, when it was decided that, in
consequence of the successful operations of the company
up to the present time, no further capital is required,
and that the call of £2 which the prospectus stated
would be made at the end of the year may be inde-
finitely postponed, any action on the question of an
increase of capital being left to the general meeting in
February, 1861.

It appears that, with the exception of a policy at the
Phoenix Office, the renewal premiums on the fire in-
surance of the premises of Messrs. Goodhart, the sugar
refiners, at Limehouse, which were destroyed on Wed-
nesday had not been paid. The extra period of fifteen
days allowed by each office had, however, not expired'
On the premium being tendered, the offices interested,
with the exception of the Liverpool and London, refused
to receive it. The question is thus raised, what is the
scope of the fifteen days' privilege which the offices pro-
fess to give. According to general impressions the
meaning is that the offices are bound to recognise a con-
tinuance of their liability during that period.