The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-05-18 00:00:00

OUTPORTS.

Luna, from Konig3berg ; and Ida, from Cal-411a, both at
Dublin.

Roderick Dhu, from West Coast at Swansea.
peAL, May 17.—Arrived and passed: Summer Cloud, from
Bombe.y to London ; City of Tangier, Calcutta to London ;
Reserve, West Indies to London; Star of Peace, Calcutta to
London ; Addison Gilbert, Bombay to London; Don Herlanos,
St. Thomas to London ; Islander, Barbadoes to London ; Early
Bird, Table Bay to London; Arabittan, Rio Janeiro to London;
Higgs, St. Helena to London. •
fiaavitsEzro, May I7.—Arrived : Honduras, from Trinidad ;
Jessie Boyd, Melbourne; Addison Gilbeit, Bombay; Lady
M`Donalci, Hong Kong; Duncan Dunbar, Sydney; Sebastian,
Sydney ; Antonio, Havannah ' • Star pf Peace, Calcutta ; Faith,
Algoa Bay ; Summer Cloud, Bombay; City of Tangier, Cal-
cutta ; Result, nielbourue.
FALMOUTH, May 17.—Arrived : Hay and Catherine, from
Bayonne ; Waldemar, Rio Janeiro for Antwerp ; Clara Wil-
helrnina, La Guayra ; Venus, Havannah; Viola, Matanzas;
Osborne, Sulina; Doris, Palermo. O 8: Ecliplae, Rio Janeiro
for Antwerp.
GREENOCK, May 17.-- irrived : Recundina, from Havana ;
Elizabeth, Alexandria ; Sarah Ann, Marseilles ; Young Mar-
quis, Palermo.
arZIO:ISTOWN, May 17.---Arrived : Aid, from Salonica ;
Escort, Callao ; Eugenie, Odessa ; Anglo Saxon, Ibrail ;
Australasian (as), Portland for Liverpool and proceeded ;
Nina, Odessa ; Phigi,ia Maggiore, Odessa ; Hannah, River
Plate ; Sandusky, Liverpool for New York, leaky ; Adolphus,
Cardiff for Hong Kong, leaky ; Gavalia, Callao ; Admiral
Kanari, Constantinople; Lucia Hendrica, Smyrna; Laughing
Water, Callao; Elena C.; Odthisa ; gathenpr, Moulmein ;
Unica, Galatz ; Yizendo, Vianna ; Kronnrindesse Louise, Car-
denas. Sailed : British queen, Bristol ; Pathfinder, Wool-
wich; Planet, Liverpool ; Martha Elliott, Bristol; Star of the
East, Liverpool; Martha Miles, As7erp ; Earl Povrie, Yar-
mouth.

MARITIME EXTRACTS,
Liviaruot, May 17.
LXOTD's, May 1C: The Mount Stuart, Elphiustone, from
Mot:lroein to Chatham, is stranded at Ambleteuse.
The Artizan (ss), in East Bee Dock with coal for Liverpool,
blew up this morning, causing considerable damage.
CARDIFF, May 15 • The Castor, Guthrie, for Bahia with coals,
grounded on the west mud at pf.narth, while being towed out
this afternoon.

caVEENSTOWN, May 14 : Four lighters, containing about 80
tons grain in good condition, arrived here" from the Diana,
Salonica to Liverpool, ashore near Ballycotton.
The Prince of Wale■ (s), for Bangor, has been towed into
dock from the Sloyne, having been run into by a ship, and lost
funnel, &c.
Slay 17 : inc Leicester has broken up ; about
90 bales cotton and 20 barrels turpentine saved.

SHIPS INTENDING TO SAIL lettObl Ll UStPOOL
FOR THE PRINCIPAL PORTS THIS MONTH.

Destination. Ship's Name. Date.
AUSTRALIA. AND Now ZEALAND :
Melbourne and Geelong ...Saldanha May 20
Western Chief „ 25
Sydney Rock City „ 25
EAST INDIES :
Bombay Bencoolen „ 22
. Calcutta Affghan 9l :4
Colombo, Ceylon Coniston
Sincapore Mary Spencer
UNITED STATES:
New York ..... ~. City of Baltimore (ss)
Africa (e)
Vigo (sa)
Universe
• Wastinrton „ 19
Adelaide
William Tapscott
Middlesex „ 25
- • Halifax and Boston Arabia (s) „ 19
Boston Enoch Train s, :0
Philadelphia Western Ocean
Quebec and Montreal Nova Scotian (ss)
North Briton (ss)
Soars Axxotcs :
Bahia Joseph Weir „ 22
Pernambuco lsabella „ 23
Rio de Janeiro Portugal (ss)
Mimosa ,
Buenos Ayres &Rosaria...Neptune „ 2520
Valparaiso Magellan"
Black Pr „ 20
ince
„
Our Queen
~ 24
Lady Ebrington „ 30
WEST INDIES:
Barbadoes Levant
~
~ 20
Kingston, Jamaica First of Xi), 26
Demerara lrt
Havanna Jesus*
11 21
MEDITERRANEAN :
Constantinople & Smyrna-Atlas (ss)
~ 22
Alexandria, Beiront, and i Arcadia (as)
Alexandretta
Santander, Bilboa, and } Nina ,ass
( ) .......................... „ 25
San Sebastian
•
Fit Alice :
Stromboli
Havre (ss) ..................
..21

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FRIDAY, MAY 18, 1860.

THE DAY'S NEWS.

In the House of Commons yesterday, the Mersey
Docks and Harbour Bill and the Upper Mersey
Dues Bill were read a third time and passed. Mr.
Stansfield enquired in what manner the rejection
of the paper duties repeal would affect the com-
mercial treaty ? The Chancellor of the Exchequer
replied that the customs charge upon French
paper would, in any case, be fixed at the same
standard with the excise du.,ty at home. Some
discussion took place as to the legality of raising
men and money for foreign powers. The Attorney-
General said, in reply to Mr. Hope, that foreigners,
though amenable to the English law, were not to
be considered as subjects of the Crown, which was
followed by some further discussion. After some
further conversation, Lard Palmerston's motion
for adjournment till Monday was agreed to. The
House then went into committee on the Wine
Licenses Bill, the reserved clauses yet remaining
to be settled, and after some debate the bill passed
through committee, and was ordered to be
reported.
There was a Bill under the consideration of
the House of Commons on Wednesday which
involves a principle somewhat similar to that of
the Evglish Church-rate question,—we mean the
Edinbugh Annuity Tax Bill. They do not,
however, in this instance, seek to abolish the tax,
but only, as Mr. Hadfield pointed out, ".to per-
petuate it in another shape." It was at first pro-
posed to form a cumulation fend for the perpe-
tuation of the tax, but the clause to that effect
was withdrawn ; and the arrangement now is,
only to diminish and fix the impost=making it
six pence for a temporary period, and five pence
in perpetuity,—the Lord Advocate stating, that
when the Bill came into committee he intended
to move the insertion of clauses to provide that,
instead of accumulating a fund of £120,000, there
sho-ald be a permanent rate, which would secure
salaries of £699 a-year to 13 ministers,—care,
however, being taken that the security for the
paYinent of the rate should be as good as the city
of Edinburgh could give. Mr. Black, op. behalf
of the dissenters from the Scotch Establishment,
expressed his approval of this, as at least provid-
ing the basis upon which a satisfactory settlement
might be arrived at. A compromise, in short, is
to be effected : the Kirk is not to be despoiled
entirely of its rights of property, but only to a
limited extent,—it gives up a part, that it may
not lose the whole. But no such measure of par-
tial justice as even this will they mete out to the
Church of England, ,in the matter of Church-
rates. The Kirk patronage in the city of Edin-
burgh is in the hands of the Town Council, which
is composed of all sorts of religionists; and Mr.
Black took occasion to deny a charge brought
against them, that they exercised their patronage
unjustly, declaring that when a majority of a
congregation asked for a particular minister their
wish was always complied with.
There is no relaxation, apparently, of the efforts
of the Radicais to get up a popular agitation
against Lord Derby en the subject of the paper
duty, which he has promised to aid Lord Mont-
eagle in preventing the repeal of'. But it won't all
do. The country is deaf to the voice of the
Radical charmer. One of our local contemporaries,
deeply interested in the paper question, says,
we observe, with reference to *the conjuncture,
that "parties in Parliament stand at bay—ready
for the encounter, but would rather that it did
not take place. Each is busy in seeking to
divine the other's thoughts, but prepared for

consequences. Lord Derby, it is understood, is
resolved on throwing out the Paper Duty Bill ;
and, if he do, Ministers will instantly act upon
the fact." But the question is, how act upon it ?
We hear that it is confidently whispered in poli-
tical circles that Lord Palmerston himself, and
three, if not more, of his colleagues, see as clearly
as Lord Monteagle and Lord Derby do, that the
million-and-a-half of revenue which the repeal of
the paper duty would sacrifice cannot possibly be
spared,—that it may not improbably be wanted,
every shilling of it, before the year is out ; and
that, therefore, like sensible men and prudent
Ministers, they could not disapprove of the bill
for repealing it being defeated by the Lords. If
this, then, be true, it does not follow that Lord
Palmerston would, in that event, resign. It is
far more probable that he would seek to recon-
struct his Cabinet. At any rate, we quite agree
with our contemporary, that " the Earl of Derby
must have contemplated such arrangement as will
naturally follow the defeat of the Paper Bill in
the Lords ;" and that "if he has arrived at such
arrangement he will stand the hazard of the die ;
for he is not a man to flinch from responsibilities."
There can be no doubt that Lord Derby is acting
from a sense of duty ; and if Lord Palmerston will
only act from a sense of duty also, a decision of
the House of Lords adverse to the Bill would
not necessarily be adverse to his Premiership.
The subject of Turkey, and of the intentions of
Russia towards that empire, is considered by the
Horning Herald to involve " the ugliest problem
for future solution which has ever fallen in the
way of statesmen,"—yet a problem, it reminds
us, which Nicholas of Russia was willing to solve
a few years ago, but which France and England
objected to his attempting, thereby inducing a
fearful war. Our contemporary shows, however,
how difficult it is to come to the conclusion that
we are much nearer the Eastern crisis which all
politicians have foretold, than we were even li
twenty years since. " All that can be said is,
that the Christians' and Mahomedans are just
now fighting harder than usual, that complaints
are increasing, and ambassadors remonstrating ;
and that Russia, in her pleasant way, increases
the buzz of political gossip by sending a Royal
Duke to Paris,"—all which is, certainly, some-
what ominous, and rather embarrassing. But it
must be admitted, it is remarked, that the con-
dition of Turkey warrants a good deal of appre-
hension, not altogether on account of Turkish
misrule, but partly, too, from the danger of
Christian ambition. "We do not," it is declared,
"counsel a tame acquiescence in repeated acts of
injustice or religious persecution ; but if a remedy
is to be applied, it must be used with the view of
relieving, and not of killing, the patient. From
all that we know of the traditional tendencies of
the Muscovite, and of the actual intrigues now
on foot, we are not disposed to regard the appeal
of Prince Gortschakoff as dictated by the most
friendly regard for the interests of the Ottoman
Porte, and we are not sorry to find that our
ambassador at St. Petersburg has given Europe
to understand that England, at least, will be no
party to any hostile demonstration against the
Sultan's authority."
Although the accounts of Garibaldi's progress
in Sicily are scanty and conflicting, there is yet
sufficient reason to conclude that he is to some
extent succeeding in his object, and that the
insurrection has, in consequence, assumed much
larger proportions,—so much larger, that as one
of our latest telegrams informs us, the King has
solicited foreign intervention. Another state-
ment is that " the situation of affairs is compli-
cated by the march of a corps of Garibaldi's on
their way from Tuscany towards Naples through
the Roman States." If this be true, may it not
be asked what General Lamoriciere and his Pon-
tifical army were about ? Are they holding back
at Rome, until Garibaldi's onslaught upon the
kingdom of Naples shall have become such as to
justify their interposition in his Majesty's behalf?
Meanwhile the remonstrance of the Neapolitan
Minister at Turin with the Sardinian Cabinet ;
and the statement that his Government " con-
siders it responsible for Garibaldi's expedition,
and charges it with having aided and abetted it,
laying it down that the expedition could never
have sailed from Genoa without the connivance,
avowed or concealed, of the Sardinian Govern-
' ment ;" may not improbably be but the precursor
of a much more formidable interposition than,
that of Rome, affording, as it may, a pretext for
Austrian interference also,—notwithstanding the
excuse that the Sardinian Government could not
restrain Garibaldi, and its allegation that it has
succeeded in preventing the departure of two
more ships with reinforcements for his expedition.
A most extraordinary and exceptional state of
things at present exists with reference to the
amount of imports requiring storage at this port.
There is said to be about a million of bales of
cotton in warehouse, and the extent to which
almost every other kind of produce is now stored
here is unparalleled. To make matters more com-
plicated, there is an enormous quantity of cotton
now on its way hither, and the authorities and
importers are in a " dead fix" where to stow
it when it arrives ; for already every_ available
space is appropriated, and great quantities are
of necessity lying about in open yards in the
interior of the town, to the manifest deterio-
ration of the goods so exposed. The difficulty
is admitted on all hands, and any little
obstacle that may arise from existing bye-laws,
passed at a time when such an emergency could
scarcely have been contemplated, will no doubt
be speedily got over to the satisfaction of all
parties, so as to put every safe space for storage
at the command of importers. At the same
time, of course, those who are in authority must
not be expected to throw every cautious con-
sideration to the winds, merely to please those
who now clamour for temporary accommodation'
at the risk of greater permanent interests which
denynd primary consideration.
THikitE are Radicals, it seems, in the House of
Lords,—or, at any rate, ex-Radicals,--who appear
to think that there is not information enough
extant yet, to enable Parliament to legislate
properly on Reform. We qualify our expression
of Radical, by introducing the idea of the noble
lord referred .to having, since he was raised to the
peerage, become an ex-Radical ; because we are
always anxious to give every one, in such cases,
the benefit of a doubt. Sir BENJAMIN HALL,
ewe can be no question, was a thorough-paced
Radical. Bat now that he is Lord LLANOVER'
it is as probable as it is natural that he should
have come to see the error of his political ways,
and to act accordingly. But be this as it may,
he has certainly made a rather un-Radical motion
in the House of Lords, un-Radical, because
implying a Conservative anxiety to be rightly
informed as to the effect of a low-rental franchise
fer Parliamentary elections, and which would
seem to indisate a misgiving, we repeat, as to the
sufficiency of the clata upon which the calcula-
tions of the authors of the Refersa Bill have based
so low a franchise as that proposed by the Minis-
terial measure. The motion of Lord LLANOVER
is for returns of as many as fourteen items of
information,—vizu i• The name of every Parlia-
mentary city arni borough in England any Wales.
2. The number of tenements rasa to the relief of
the poor at £8 and under £9. 3. At B and
under £lO. 4, At iO and upwards. 5. The
total Of columns 2,3, and 4. 6. The number of
electors on the register. 7. The per-tentage that
the number of electors bears to the numbers given
in column 5.- 8. The number of tenements rated
as above at £4 and under £5. 9. At £5 and
under £6. 10. At £6 and under 17. 11. At £7
and under XS. 12: The total of columns 8,9, 10,

and 11. 13. The numbers that might be placed
upon the register if the same per-c entage is taken
as shown in column 7. 14. The numbers in
columns G and 13 added. Now, here is an
amount and variety of information which one
cannot but see, at a glance, it must be most
important, not to say indispensable, to be pos-
sessed of, in calculating the working of a fran-
chise
so low as that which Ministers have not
scrupled to lay down in their Bill. And yet such
information has still to be obtained; and a devoted
Ministerialist has felt it necessary to ask for it.
It shows how loosely, how vaguely, and therefore
how rashly, they have gone to work with their
measure,—upon what uncertain grounds they
have decided to adopt a franchise, the effect of
which it is already objected, would be to swamp
the present classes of electors. 'Lord GREY'S
motion for returns, now in course of preparation,
is likely to furnish a great deal of similarly indis-
pensable information. But Lord LLANOVER'S
goes into minuter details, and will thereby make
the means of forming a correct conclusion still
more complete. These returns, however, must
take a considerable time to be made. It is not
unreasonably to be presumed, therefore, that there
are Ministerialists who do not expect the Reform
Bill to be passed this session.
It is fortunate for the cause of really safe and
constitutional Parliamentary reform, that there is
this delay,—fortunate, not merely for the reason
we have just assigned—that of affording time for
obtaining fuller and better information us to the
basis of the franchise to be adopted ; but also as
furnishing an opportunity of seeing illustrated
more and more forcibly the principles and the
objects of the Radicals, who are so clamorous for
the Ministerial Bill,—and clamorous for it, not as
satisfying, by any means, their demands, or
realising their objects, but as being a great step,
and a sure one, in that direction : so great, and so
sure, as to encourage the most confident hopes of
its soon leading to the accomplishment of all their
ends,

Such, then, being the case, it is fortunate, we
say, that an occasion has arisen for their mani-
festing what these ends really are. The agitation
against the House of Lords that has all at once
sprung up has afforded this occasion. It is
evident from the speeches and resolutions of the
Radical meetings now taking place, that one of
their Reform objects will eventually be the revo-
lutionary one of' doing away with the House of
Lords as a branch—sand the best branch too, in
our opinion—of the Legislature of the country.
The adoption of motions committing the meetings
to such a course of action as that of praying the
House of Commons that in the event of the
House of Lords rejecting the bill for the abolition
of the excise upon paper, it will at once pass such
a resolution as will indemnify her Majesty's
Government, should they think proper to disre-
gard any action of the House of Lords upon that
Bill ;—the adoption, we maintain, ofseuch a mode
of proceeding as this; is a clear indication of the
seditious principles by which they are actuated,
and the revolutionary objects they are seeking to
attain. The effect of the House of Commons
taking such a course as that which they here
recommend would be to repudiate the consti-
tutional authority of an estate of the realm that
is not only of equal power with, bit of a higher
order than their own ; and the Government that
should dare "to disregard any action of the
House of Lords upon that bill," or upon any
Legislative measure whatever, would by such an
act have begun to pursue a treasonable course,
for which no resolution of the House would afford
any indemnity whatever. We unhesitatingly say
treasonable ; because such an act would be, to all
intents and purposes, an offence committed against
the dignity and integrity of the commonwealth,
which constitutes treason. An offence against
the security of the commonwealth, equally as an
offence against the security of the Crown itself,
ee, aceui Meg to our constitutional law, treason.
The term commonwealth, in such a case, is used to
define an established form of legal authority—of
legislation, and the administration of public
affairs. It is the Constitution of the country
which has been described as enacting and en-
forcing three regular species of government, —the
monarchy, residing in the Sovereign; the aris-
tocracy, in the House of Lords; and the republic,
being represented by the House of Commons—the
perfection intended, and hitherto happily realleed,
by such a combination, being to secure the ad-
vantages of the several simple forms, and to
exclude the inconveniences. But such a resolution
of the Radicals as that we have alluded to would
destroy all this, or throw it into utter confusion ;
and yet it appears that, at Manchester, when that
revolutionary resolution was proposed, the meeting
rase en masse and cheered it most vociferously,—
thus acknowledging by acclamation the treason-
able ends they were ready -to pursue—the mono-
polising of all the legislative and administrative
power of lie realm by the Commons, thus reduc-
ing it, at one fell swoop, to the condition of a
republic,
It is most important, therefore, we repeat, to
know all this, before proceeding to pass a Reform
Bill ;which they who are thus treasonably minded
are so eager to accept as an instalment of their
revolutionary demands. We heartily concur
in a remark we read the other day, that
" not only in London society, but in every part of
the country, and not least in the great manu-
facturing towns, it is felt that the freedom and
prosperity of England are inseparably connected
with the maintenance of a rational constitution,"
—and that although it may perhaps be neces-
sary to make a change in accordance with the
pledges which have been given, yet the unavoid-
able deterioration of the constituencies can never
be in itself an advantage. There cannot, we are
well convinced, be a doubt of this. But we see
how not only the constituencies would, to a
certainty, be deteriorated, but how such deterio-
ration would servo the ends of those who seek to
revolutionise and republicanise the Constitution,
—making it to be no longer a rational, but
transformed into a most irrational, because most
unsafe and mischievous political system.