The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-11-10 00:00:00

It is needless to say that these disclosures, provided the
facts to which they relate be correct, and of which, it is
asserted there is little doubt, will go a considerable way
to explain the want of a positive result to the meeting of
the three Sovereigns at Warsaw, as well as the anti-
warlike attitude which has been subsequently
assumed by Austria,—they will also, it may be
added, fully bear out all that was said now
more than a year ago, before the Italian war
was entered into, at the period of the marriage of
Prince Napoleon, as to a treaty having been concluded
between France and Sardinia, which treaty though at
first altogether denied and disavowed, was subsequently
admitted by the lifoniteur, so far as concerned that part
of which was of a purely defensive nature. It now
appears, however, very evident that this treaty still
subsists, and that one or more of its provisions, not only
guarantees to Sardinia the territories formerly possessed
by that Power, but also those acquired by King Victor
by the pacification of Zurich. What hinders us now,
therefore, from accepting as true the allegations, which
have been also over and over again denied, that the
Island of Sardinia itself is the price and consideration
given to France in return for such a " material gua-
rantee ?"

A large meeting of noblemen and gentlemen was held
at Willis's Rooms on Thursday evening, to concert
measures for the formation of a Light Cavalry
Volunteer Corps for the metropolis. Lord Trero
said, that having parcelled out the metropolis
into districts, he proposed that a committee
of three gentlemen be elected in each district, to super-
intend the enrolment of members. His lordship went
into details as to expenses, drill, and general organisa-
tion ; and the principle having been approved of by the
meeting, a resolution, in which it was embodied, was
put and carried.
Mr. Alderman Cubitt, M.P., the Lord Mayor elect,
was on Thursday afternoon developed into Lord Mayor
in fact, by the ceremony of swearing-in—an induction
which was performed, as usual, at the Guildhall.
On Thursday morning Sir John Bowring was married,
at the Unitarian Chapel, Bristol, to Miss Deborah
Castle, daughter of the late Mr. Michael Hinton Castle,
of that city. The ceremony was performed by the Rev.
B. Apsland, of Hackney, assisted by the Rev. W. James,
of Bristol. The chapel was crowded on the occasion.
It, is stated that some misapprehension exists as to
the working of the treaty of commerce with France, so
far as it has come into operation, with respect to
iron goods and cutlery. Some extensive shipments
have been made from the manufacturing districts of
Lancashire, of machinery for cotton spinning, and
steam engines, which have been suit principally to
Alsace and Rouen. These goods have been stopped,
we are informed, at the French ports to which they
were shipped through non-compliance with a form
required by the treaty. This form requires that the
shipper of goods should forward with them a certificate
of origin from the French consul residing nearest to the
place where they are manufactured. The certificate of
origin is a declaration that the goods are either the pro-
duce of British soil or of British industry, and is obtain-
able at a cost of 45., or the shipper has the option of
obtaining a declaration to the same effect attested before
a magistrate, and afterwards signed by the French
consul, the fee for which to the French consul is only
2s. Of course the application to the consul, in the first
instance, is attended with the least trouble, and is that
most generally adopted ; and it may be mentioned
that the instructions of the French Government to
their consuls is to interpret the rules laid down for
their guidance in all such matters in the most liberaL
spirit, so as to throw the least amount of obstacle in the
way of commerce between the two countries. We men-
tioned some time ago that Dr. Rassaertz was
appointed French consul at Manchester ; and the fact
that several consignments of manufactures have had to
be detained at French ports while he could be applied
to for the certificates (which should have been obtained
in the first instance), causing a delay of eight or ten
days, renders it de.sirable that shippers should be put on
their guard. not to neglect this necessary preliminary.
We are glad to announce the safe arrival at Plymouth
yesterday morning of His Royal Highness Prince
Alfred.

Mr. Malcolm Ross, the vice-president of the Manches-
ter Chamber of Commerce, presented to the Chamber
the report of the deputation from Manchester to Paris,
with reference to the French Treaty. The deputation
consisted of Mr. Ross himself, and Messrs. Henry
Ashworth, John Cheetham, John Slagg, Benjamin
Armitage, B. Stretton, and Edmund Ashworth, jun. ;
and the report shows the immense amount of labour
which the deputation had to undergo in the performance
of their mission, and the difficulties which they ex-
perienced in combatting the prejudices of the French
Protectionists. The deputation are stated to be, on the
whole, well pleased with the result of their visit, and
are of opinion that when the full particulars of the tariff
have been published, they will be found very satisfactory
to the commercial community of this district.

The amount of. cotton at present at sea is at this
period of the year rather interesting, especially when
there is so much discussion as to the new crop and the
stock of cotton in hand. There are now known to be no
less than 23 ships from New Orleans, at sea, with 59,974
bales of cotton on board, viz. :-Normandy, 1,309; Con-
gress, 1,715 ; Ocean Romp, 2,803 ; Pocahontas, 3,533 ;
Wirtemburg. 2,260; Senator, 2,870; Carlyle, 3,600;
Mountaineer, 2,446; Warbler, 2,198; Frank Pierce,
4,565 ; Shamrock, 3,675; Ocean Star, 2,753; Globe,
2,825 ; G. W. Duncan, 2,780 ; Brandywine, 2,560 ;
Athens, 1,705 ; Crimea, 2,830 ; Baden, 3,371 ; Belle
Wood, 4,404 ; Windermere, 3,486; China, 2,286 ;
Charles Davenport, -; Northern Chief, -; total,
59,974 bales. From New York, there are 16 ships, viz. :
-Sir Robert Peel, 157 ; Australia, 663 ; America,
310 ; New Orleans, 412 ; W. V. Storer, 257 ; Ontario,
619 ; Dreadnought, 120 ; Neptune, 552; Castor, 300 ;
E. C. Scranton, 216; De Witt Clinton, 734; New World,
898 ; Manchester, 292 ; Abbott Laurence, 1,570 ; John
Bright, 788; Lucy Thompson, 1,384: total, 9,272.
From Mobile there are two ships: Oregon, 2,283; Annie
Size, 3,402 ; total, 3,685. From Savannah two ships :
Florida, 1,565; Georgia, 3,276; t0ta14,841. From Charles-
ton four ships : Emma, 2,640 ; Susan G. Owens, 2,227;
Gondar, 2,273; Neomie, 1,867 ; total, 9,057 : making a
grand total from American ports of 88,827 bales of cotton
en route to Liverpool.-From Bombay there are 16 ships,
viz.-Edmund Kaye, with 3,307 bales ; Gleaner, 2,169 ;
Stirlingshire, 2,596 ; H. M. Hayes, 6,536 ; Typhoon,
3,042 ; Myrtle, 1,725 ; Lilly Dale, 1,566 ; Loretto,
1,442; Mary Stenhouse, 2,366 ; Chevalier, 3,360;
Cannata, 1,281 ; Khimjce Oodowjee, 2,681; Beeston
Castle, 2,553 ; Northern Light, 5,340 ; Duke of North-
umberland, 2,193 ; Bunta, 1,301; total, 43,464 bales ;
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The Times says that private letters front officers of
marines serving in China state that Admiral Hope had
announced that the battalion of Royal Marines would
embark for England on Ist October, by which time it
was confidently expected that the allied operations in
China would have been brought to a termination.
There is no foundation for the report that the Com-
mander-in-Chief, or the Secretary for War is promoting
the project of a volunteer excursion to Paris. The
Paris correspondent of the Times, says that troops of
the line, with vrhoni Frenchmen fought side by side, or
even the militia would be looked upon ifi the light of
comrades ; but that the volunteers would be regarded
with a different feeling, partly from owing their exist-
ence to the apprehension of French invasion.
Mr. Edward Ellice, M.P., Cm:entry, whose oppo-
sition to the finance measure of the Government last

session was so energetic and Conspicuous, has addressed a
letter to his constituents, in the course of which he
denounces the whole proceedings of the financial depart-
ments of the Government. The recent system of finance
he terms speculative, and says that the repeal of the
duties connected with the French treaty would appear
to have been to satisfy the exigencies of individual
members of the Cabinet, and to conciliate the support
of certain parties out of it connected with them. He
complains that in order to favour that proceeding the
whole expenditure of the country was concealed from
Parliament, and the estimates of revenue were grossly
exaggerated. It is subsequently explained that the
concealment of expenditure refers only to the Chinese
war and the fortifications vote.