The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-02-28 00:00:00

A CONTRADICTORY CONFIRMATION.

Together with some excellent qualities, both as a
statesman and as a human being, Lord Palmerston,
unfortunately, possesses a tendency to domineer, and
(what is still worse) an imperfect regard for strict
truth. Au instance of both these characteristics oc-
curred on Monday night, at the close of the debate
on Mr. Disraeli's amendment to the motion for going
into committee on the Customs Acts. Mr. Horsman,
in a speech of considerable ability and eloquence, bad
opposed the Commercial Treaty, but had expressed
his willingness to cultivate a friendly alliance with
France, consistently with what he regards 'as a due
respect for English interests and honour, ^"^ rivfn
mer
inainixakince.of the goodwill of otter DlT°l*-111:ual
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trade schemes; untr TiunKs we nau netter remain as we
are. Our readers are aware how utterly we dissent from
these views of Mr. Horsman. Every number of this
journal declares our adhesion to that policy of confidence
in Imperial France out of which the treaty has arisen,
but which the. party of Mr. Horsinan seem unable to
comprehend. While, therefore, we admit the faculty
of that-gentleman's address, we entirely disagree with
his opinions; but we are not on that account the less
desirous that he should be treated with fair play and
honesty. We are bound to say—though we say it with
deep regret—that Lord Palmerston did not so treat the
right honourable member for Stroud. This was his
version of what Mr. Horsman had put forth :

LiVEAPOdit POLICE

(Before 4r. RAFFLES.)

ASSAULT ON A WOMAN BY A SAILOR.—James Arnold,
an American sailor, was brought up by Police-constable
118, ehatged with having assaulted Eliza Humphries, d
respectable-J(3ok* vtonian, tesidigy cebil;Stret: On!
A,at!,itday night prisofier m/s dispoting With
to ivbom he had refused payment for Smile oysteks. The
complainant came up and told the prisoner to pay the
woman for the oysters, whereupon he turned round and
struck her a violent blow on the heal—Mr. Raffles :
Did you know • him ?Complainant : No, sir, I never
saw hini before.---i. Mr. Raffles : I always look upon it as
a very seriOns thing for a , niaii like you to strike a
woman, It is a most dd. Yod must pay 20s:
and co=ts, or go to gaol for a motitli.
A WEAKNESS.--A middle-aged man, dressed in frieze
clothes, and with an appearance which showed plainly
that he was from the "Green Isle," was placed in the
dock, and asked what he had to say to the charge of
having been drunk and disorderly, which was preferred
against him.—Prisoner : It's a, weakness that seizes me
sometimes, your worship. (Laughter.)—Mr. Raffles :
What's that ?--Prisoner (scratching his head) : It's a
oothplaint I'nt troubled with sometimes, your honour. ,
(Laughter.)—Mr: Raffles : Has he eter been troubled
with this camplaint before ?—Bridewell-keeper : Yes,
sir ; he was here six months :ago for the same thing.
—Mr. Raffles : Well, it's a good while since you were
here, and you may be diScharged„ but be datefiil that
the weakness does net Otercdnie yoti. again. (Laiightei.)
A " Si-ELD" IN Tflouiiiie.—A yoring than, who gaiie
his name as Henry Haddick and his address as Hus-
kisson-street, and who had adopted all the latest improve-
ments in male attire, was charged with having been
disorderly in Limekiln-lane, between twelve and one
on Sunday morning. He appeared on bail, and was
charged with having been fighting with a woman of bad
character, who was placed in the dock.—The defendant
'said he had net been fighting with the woman but with
a man, and the woman came up to separate them --Mr. '
Raffles : I suppose you did not know much about it ?
Defendant : Oh, yes sir ; I was not tipsy.—Mr. Baffles :
The woman may be discharged, but you must pay five
shillings and costs, as you ought to have known better.
EMBEZZLEMENT.—Joseph Pratt. a middle-aged man,
*as charged with having embezzled various sums of
money belonging to Mr. Barton, coal merchant, Old-
hall-street, in whose employ he had been. When appre-
hended by Mr. Eaton, he admitted that he bad em-
bezzled between £6O and £7O. The prisoner was
remanded, for the purpose of affording the prosecutor
an opportunity of ascertaining the extent of the priso-
ner's defalcations, Mr. muck, who appeared on his
behalf, offering no objection.
A W AREHOUSEMAN CHARGED WITH BURGLARY
AND ARSON.—William Hamer, a young man, late a
wirehousman in the employ of Mr. McKnight, was
placed in the dock on a charge of having broken into a I
warehouse in Henry-street, belonging tti his employer,
and of having set fire to an.otlier warehoitse in Grech-
land-greet, also in time occiipation of Mr. McKnight.
Mr. Bluck appeared for the defence. Mr. McKnight
said that'on Wednesday week, in consequence of some
evidence which' was laid before him by the police
relative to the fire in his warehouse, in Greenland-street,
on the 30th January, he discharged the prisoner. After
that time he would have no authority to enter any of
his warehouses, and if seen thete by him; would have
been siren into thistddy. 'the prisoner had been in
eniploy as warehouseman for the last fifteen months!
but for two or three years previously as porter.—
Bernard Loughran, a porter, said that on Thursday
last he was in Henry-street, employed in Heywood's
warehouse. At six o'clock, he locked up the ware-
house. The lock produced, which was broken, was
the one which be put on the door. It was not broken
then. He saw the prisoner in the street about one o'clock
that day.—John Gorman was ordered to go on Friday
morning to work for Mr. McKnight, at Heywood's in
Henry-street. He went to Heywood's warehouse and
found the lock broken, and, on entering the warehouse,
he found a number of files like those produced strewn
about the floor. He reported the circumstance to Mr.
McKnight's man.—Mr: \Vatkin Owen said that he was
clerk in the employ of Mr. McKnight, and that
John Gorman reported to ! him that he had fotind
some files strewn on the floor. He kne* there were
some files up stairs, and oh going into the top-room.
he raiind that the casks had been broken open, and
that about a quarter of their contents had been remove&
—Mrs. Speed, wife of a poblican, said she lived near
Heywood's warehouse in Henrylstreet. She knew the
prisoner who had hem in the habit of coming to their
house. Between eight and nine o'clock on Thursday
night. she saw a man standing against the wall. About
eleven o'clock she saw the same man looking into the
warehouse, and at the same time a person looked out of
the door. She went across the street and hearing some
one in the warehouse she went back and told her husdand.
She afterwards :-aw a man leave the warehouse and said to
her husband at the time that it was the prisoner, but she
would not swear that it was him.—Mr. Kehoe then
asked for a remand, Which was *ranted, and the evia6nce
in the second case was gone into.—Mr. ght said
he was the occupier of a warehouse in Greenland-street,
which had been the warehouseman's station for many
years. Miscellaneous goods were stored in that ware-
house, but the prisoner would have no authority to
remove anything without a written order. After locking
up the warehouse at night, the prisoner had no right to
return till the next morning. The keys were placed in
the office in Exchange-street East, and as the, prisoner
came for' them early in the morning he was allowed to
h ave a key for the office door, so that at any time of the ni ht.,
if so disposed, he mightget the keys. -Witness remembered
the night of the 30th of January, and on the following
morning he learned that the warehouse was burned
do wn.—Wutkin Owen remembered the night of the 30th
of January, and recollected that person bringing the.
keys to the ofilee. Mrs: Cavey, wife of a seaman
living in Jordan-street, knew the prisoner, and remem7
bered the night of the. fire. About nine o'clock, she
passed 31‘Knight's warehouse, 'and saw the prisoner
standing at the staircase door, with a sample of cotton
under his arm. There was a tall man standing at 'the
door. She thought it strange to see them there so late.
She thought there was a smell of burning cotton. She
passed again about 10 o'clock, and saw the tall man stand-
ing there again. She went to a public-house and said to a
person whom she knew, '" If that place takes fire
' to-night, those men have done it." That night, after
she had gone to bed, she heard a policeman's rattle, and
on going round into Greenland-street saw smoke cooling
out of the warehouse.—Catherine Platt knew the pri-
soner; and had often seen a man at the warehouse in
Greenland-street with the prisoner. She had repeatedly
seal this man and the prisoner carry away something in
baskets, tubs, and handcarts, and Oil each occasion,
before the things were taken away, the other man came
out and looked to see if there was anyone about.
She bad often seen both the prisoner and the other man
tipsy about the warehouse.—Several other witnesses
having spoken to having seen the prisoner near the
warehouse on the night of the fire, the case was
remanded for seven days.
CRUEL ROBBERY.—Maurice Murphy, mate, and
Samuel 1114Gitiin, seaman, on board of the schooner
Maria Eliza, were charged with having stolen £l5O
in gold, from the house of Mrs. Quigley, a Widow keep-
ing a beerhouse at Penzance, Cornwall. On Wednes-
day last the amount named was placed in the bar till,
as it was to be called for that day by a Captain Thorpe,
who had left the money for safety with :qrs. Quigley.
The prisoners were drinking in the bar during the day,
and being left for some time by themselves, they broke
open the till, abstracted the money, and having got on
board their vessel put to ' :,ea immediately. Mrs.
Quigley, suspecting that the prisoners would come to
Liverpool, proceeded here by rail at once, and com-
municated immediately with the police. She
was referred to Detective Cousens, who since
iinctay morning he saw 'a vessel coming up
the river, which was supposed, to be the one he was on
the watch for; and having kept her in view till she
came to anchor in the Sloyne, he went over to Rock Ferry,
accompanied by Mrs. Quigley. Immediately after they
had landed on the Rock Ferry slip, the prisoner M‘Giffin
came ashore in a boat, and was immediately apprehended.
In a bag fastened round his neck was found the sum of
£129 in gold. It appeared from his own statement
that he sent the other prisoner, out of the way while he
committed the robbery ; and that he had not informed
him at all of this amount, only dividing the other £2O,
which were in silver. He had about £l2 in silver in
his pocket; and the mate, who was apprehended on
board the vessel, had about £8 concealed in his berth.
Time capture, certainly, does very great credit to Mr..
Cousens. The prisoners were ordered to be conveyed to
Cornwall to answer the charge.

Ile (Mr. Ilorsman) said : "I object to your treaty because it
tends to increase the wealth and prosperity of France." He
could not deny that the increasing operation of that national
intercourse would he to augment the wealth and prosperity of
England also; but he said that anything whirl, tends to wake
France more rich, more economical, mere industrious, is a
danger to England. Sir, I siy that if in his oninion that is
dangerous to England, he ought to propose a resolution atrainst
all commercial relations with France. (Hear. hear.) lie said,
in effect: "Let us abstain from doing anything which by
developing the wealth of France may tend to make her think
of the glories of war; let us put France under a ban; if we
are to have commerce with foreign countries, let us have it
with any other and every other country in the world, rather
than with France."
Nov,r. Hoisman had not said anything of the
kind. 'He had, indeed, made some very ill-judged and
wild remarks on the greater facility for prosecuting her
alleged ambitions designs which the treaty, in his
opinion, would confer on France ; but this was evidently
in allusion to the importation of those sinews of war,
English coal, iron, and machinery, in which the Pro-
tectionists:--very unwisely, as we conceive—detect a dan-
ger to England and to Europe generally. The argument
could not be construed into the monstrous assertion
that " anything . which tends to make France more
rich, more economical, more industrious," is to be
opposed. Mr. Horsman, therefore, very naturally
"rose to order," that he might disavow such opinions.
The noble
The Premier, however, " continued speaking for some
time, without being able to make himself heard." At
length,
Lord M
Rill,
aml s
I Orisiirnert contrived t veefdo
rto
telling a
.that I didy
not utter a single syllable like what he has stated."
Anybody would have supposed that, after this, the
noble Lord," seeing that be was in the wrong as to the •
matter of fact, and had been courteously corrected,
would have apologised. Nothing of the kind. He
simply reiterated the misstatement in the most offensive
manner :
I must reaffirm what I have stated. I will not pretend to a
better memory than other people; but I am correct in tchat I
hare said.
This is had enough ; but what follows is worse, for
the Premier, in the very next sentence, backs off from
his original assertion with a pretence of confirming it :
Sir, I say that, if the right honourable gentleman is consis-
tent in the opinions he has expressed, that is the conclusion to
which he ought to come.
No wonder that the house cried " Oh, oh !" at this
palpable evasion. Lord Palmerston first of all asserts,
with a rollicking confidence, that Mr. Horsman had
said a certain thing. It is denied; he repeats the
assertion with still greater confidence and emphasis ;
'
and, in the very next breath, he covertly, admits that
his opponent had not said so, because that was simply
the conclusion to which he • ought to have come The
Premier is one of those perplexing. disputants who con-
firm their statements with a contradiction ; for this is
not the first time that he has resorted to prevarication
to cover his retreat from a false position. Atie say again
that Mr. Horsman's views are the very antipodes of our
own ; but this is not a question of politics—it is a
aquestiongaiilst the o r
f niigohrtalhi toyn.
ouTrakbele gPreTlitileentian, without resort-
ing to a perversion of his language ; but everything
had
a Splendid case
was to be sacrificed to make a telling point. Members
of all shades of opinion, however, owe it to their own
honour to discourage a habit which is in the last.deoTee
discreditable to any assemblage of gentlemen.—Atlas.

EXTRAORDINARY FEAT OF STRENGTH.--A man
recently knocked. down an elephant. 4e was an am_
tioneer.

TAE DAILI mits, TUESDAY; FEBRUARY 28, 1860.