The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-09-24 00:00:00

are human bodies, and not clocks, and that they cannot in-
dulge in continual oscillations without the risk of being
upset in the end. The German Press generally regards
the approaching meeting with anything but favour, and
nearly all the Berlin journals arc manfesting in the most
demonstrative fashion, their sympathies for Italy, and
their aversion to any project for undoing any part of the
work which has been accomplished.

The Neapolitan Embassy at Naples declares that it
is, and has been for some time, altogether without news
of King Francis IL It is believed, however, that his
ex-Majesty intends to repair, in the first instance, along
with his wife and the other members of his family, to
the Court of Madrid, where he will remain some weeks;
and that, subsequently, the party will come to this
country, not, however, for the purpose of making any
lengthened stay, but of re-embarking for a northern
German port, and going thence into Austria or Bavaria.
We must again warn our readers against attaching
undue importance to the rumours and opinions which
are circulated regarding the alleged antagonism of Gee.
Garibaldi and M. Caveat'. We cannot permit ourselves
to believe that the Dictator will allow himself to be
separated, in the great mission which he has undertaken,
from the Cabinet of Turin. The active and energetic
policy which Piedmont has now assumed, and the
prestige of the rapid and decisive success which has
attended upon her arms in the Roman States, by quench-
ing or eclipsing the share which the purely revolu-
tionary element has hitherto taken in the Italian move-
ment, will necessarily greatly facilitate the restoration
of a good understanding between these two distinguished
men, and can hardly fail of hindering Garibaldi, should
he be so disposed, which is doubtful, from rashla,
embarking in those other enterprises, which cannot poi-
sibly be expected to escape failure, unless they are Con-
curred in, and approved by, the united force of Italy.
The importance attached to the preparations which
Francis 11. is said to be making for continuing the
struggle at. Gaeta and elsewhere, has been of course
entirely neutralised by the annihilation of the Pontifical
troops under Lamoriciere, and the effects of that general's
defeat in the neighbourhood of Ancona. It is, however,
we believe, the persuasion of all Frenchmen who know
Lamoriciere, that he will hold out Ancona to the last.
It was really too bad of the Times to confound him
with Marshal Pelissier, who served under him, and not
with him, in Algeria.
The departure from Paris of the Sardinian envoy is
announced. As a matter of course, diplomatic etiquette
required that M. Nigra should imitate the example of
M. Talleyrand. The diplomatic intercourse between
the two governments will henceforth be managed by a
secretary of legation on each side.
An approaching interview between Baron Schlenitz
the Prussian Minister at Coblentz, and Lord John Rus-
sell, is also announced.
The telegraph furnishes us with a disagreeable pail,
graph relatibe to Chinese matters. Some unfavourable
rumours of a disaster to the allied arms are in circula-
tion, but they do not appear to rest on any solid foun-
dation. Probably they originate in an interested source.
The results of fresh experiments for testing the invul-
nerability of iron cased ships seem to suggest, if they do
not permit us to anticipate, an order being given for
the construction of this description of vessels, without
delay. The French declare La Gloire to be perfect in
all respects.
By the Royal Mail Steamship, Africa, which arrived
here yesterday, we have full particulars of one of the
most calamitous collisions that ever occurred upon the
lakes of the American continent; upwards of three hun-
dred persons having met with a watery grave. There seems,
as is, unfortunately, too often the case in this country,
to have been a most reckless and even criminal lack of
boats and life-preserving apparatus on this occasion.
We regret to announce that among the passengers lost
was Mr. Herbert Ingram, M.P., and Colonel Lumsden,
of the .New Orleans Picayune. It was stated that
Mr. Ingram's eldest son perished with him, but the
results of inquiries (says the Observer of yesterday) is to
the effect that none of the unfortunate gentleman's
family accompanied him to America. Mr. Ingram was
the founder of his own fortune, which is said to be very
considerable ; and it may be added that he was one of
those kind-hearted, hospitable men whom every one
liked, and no one envied.
On Thursday last, Frances, Marchioness of London-
derry, visited and feasted with her tenantry at Cern-
lough. Of course, there were flags and decorations,
and the ships were decked with all their colours. There
were loyal and popular toasts and mottoes. There was the
warm affection between the tenantry of the soil, and the
practical exemplification of the maxim "live and let live."
These meetings between landowner and tenantry are of
infinite importance. They bind closer the link between
the higher and the humbler classes, and they show that
if the recipient of the rent is mindful of his rights, he
is also mindful of his duties. Industry is encouraged
when the landlord rewards the improving and working
tenant. Cleanliness and order are cultivated when it is
known that the owner himself will visit the homesteads,
and personally manifest an interest in the health and
comfort of those below him ; and the fidelity of the old
- feudal tie, without its evils, is revived when every
family upon an estate knows that its progress and
success are objects of interest to those under whom
Providence has placed them.
New Zealand has now five bishops, being more than
there are in India. It may be stated that arrangements
are in progress, which it is hoped may be soon completed,
for the erection of two new sees in India, one for the
Punjaub and one for Tinnevelly. There is some pro-
bability that a third additional bishopric may be founded
through the liberality of a private individual, who has
already done much fur the colonial church.
,nt

JOHN BRIGHT,-WHERE IS HE.

_Vona alid mente repostunt," has been said to
be the legend and superscription upon every
memorial or record of an Asiatic quarrel,

" Fixed it remains, and rankles in the breast,"
until the favourable moment is considered to have
arrived for fanning the smouldering embers into
flame, and quenching them in the blood of the
hateful enemy. But have we not a somewhat
analogous instance of this rankling-in-the-breast
feeling nearer home ? The usual autumnal
speech-making season has arrived, and already
one or two minor notabilities, in addition to the
veteran tergiversator, the right honourable
member for Carlisle, have made their bow
to listening, if not admiring, audiences. Bnt
where is Mr. JOHN BRIGHT all this time ? where
has the honourable member been ever since the
curtain fell upon a Parliamentary campaign
which, by the admission even of his particular
friend the sharp-edged member for Sheffield, was
only redeemed from absolute and positive failure
by the successful resistance offered to the passing
of a so-called Reform Bill, and to the repeal of
the Paper Duty, in the face of a diminished and
diminishing Exchequer ? Wherefore the silence
of that fluent tongue, on whose accents de-
lighted thousands have hung, as it denounced
in nervous periods, the crimes and the
misdemeanours of a " bloated aristocracy," or
descanted with " honest, manly eloquence" on
the evils of a system of taxation which, according
to the teaching of this Birmingham political sect,
robs the working members of society of their
hard-won earnings, while it spares the rich
and those who live at ease ? Why does plain
JOHN BRIGHT, who is known to entertain as great
an abhorrence for aristocratic sports and amuse-
ments as for aristocrats themselves, still continue
to spend that time which is so valuable in tho
eyes of his admirers in those lota silentia where
naught is heard by the visitor but the report of
the cruel fowling-piece, the crack of a detested
Whitworth rifle, or the baying of a deerhound ?
Has the honourable member for Birmingham a
passion for the gentle art ? Is he a disciple of
the immortal Walton ? We cannot believe it ;
nor is it stated that he is ill.

But why need wo go further than his own
"strawy" organ in search of the cause of the pro-
longed absence of this great political luminary,
whose voice is so much needed to rouse his follow-
ers from their lethargy, and hark them back to a
fresh charge against the institutions of the land.
That enlightened oracle supplies us with the rea-
son, and wo heartfully and thankfully accept it.
For once we are thoroughly en accord with our
Quaker foe, and we are prepared, if necessary,
even to go into the same lobby with him in sup-
port of the opinion of his illorniny Star. " AGI-
TATION IS NOT A PROFITABLE BUSINESS." Most
certainly not ; and let us add once more, that
such agitation as that of Mr. BRIGHT'S is also not
unfrequently a dangerous business,—dangerous,
not only to the best interests of the country, but
dangerous and damaging to the reputation of the
agitator. But let the Star again apeak. " Its plea-
sures are very likely to pall. Excitment of all kinds
has its attractions, but the excitement of sustained
public effort soon exhausts either itself or its
subject. A man may find in occasional exertions
of this sort a glorious stimulant to every faculty
of his nature. He may draw from the presence
of eager or of hostile thousands an inspiration