The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-05-14 00:00:00

OUR NOBLE VOLUNTEERS.

On Sifildififterifoon, out good--town was again
delighted by the appedraitte,- In the public streets, of
several of our splendid volunteer corpa. They were
preceded by their excellent bands, which played some
martial arid spirit-stirring airs; and their precision and
soldierly bearing, as they marched along, fairly claimed
the approbation of the strictest military martinet. The
step was firm and uniform, and the solid tramp of the
BritiSh soldier which was heard as they moved along,
plainly told that discipline had done its work on-tlie
Liverpool volunteers. A large crowd surrounded the
corps as they marched along, and all seemed delighted,
and sometimes a cheer burst forth ftord the civilians
which, fOr a moment, drowned the music of the ear-
piercing fife and the " big drum that makes ambition
virtge."

Well may' our country be proud of her destiny, when
her highest nobility, her merchant princes, and all that
is great and noble in the land, joiii \sith their humbler
comrades to sustain her position as one of the first
military, as well as` commercial, nations on the earth.
God grant the day may never come when these claims
should be disputed ; but if, unhappily for the peace of
• the world, our prayer may not be heard, and if rash
counselS abroad should open the temple of Janus, we
have TIC; fear kr the results, for it is a mistake to think
that England is only a " ration of shopkeepers." She
is, no doubt, pre-eminently comnfercial, but should the
tide of war roll on the white cliffs of Albion, that
moment the British people, as represented by the
Volunteers, would prove to the world that: a people
may be at the same time both thoroughlY warlike and
coniutercial; The Volunteer force of England, as one
of their mottoes Very eipressively saYs,is raised, not for
" defiance, but defence ;" and they who think for a
moment that because their lives are ngt wholly devoted
to soldiering they are not the real grist, make a sad and
, serious mistake. A Volunteer force, if properly organiged
and drilled, must, as a matter of course, prove all but
invincible, because they are actuated by the highest,
holiest, and purest Motives.

HOW TRADE IS DRIVEN FROM THE

MERSEY.

Mr. Edward Chaloner, in his timber circular, says
" Reverting to the subject of internal transit, alluded to
in the circular of the 27th ult., it may not be generally
bnown among the timber trade that the earliest daily
quick train to Manchester, leaving Lime-street Station
at 8-46, and going direct, without stopping between
Edge-hill and Manchester (Oxford-road station), caa- '
not take a 'passenger to Manchester Preferring,
myself, to obtain Manchester by this early and
express train, •I, and my clerks also, in order -to profit
by it, take our tickets for Guide Bridge, and so obtain
Manchester by the London-road Station. This is also the
case with the 3-50 train frem Lime street, both trains
being those of the Great Northern Railway Company,
running twice a day between Liverpool and Manchester,
and returning frequently with empty carriages, 'it
having been bargained that this, the best-appointed
train on the line, shall not carry passengers between
this port and Manchester. I have gone into these
particulars, together Istith those in-my circular of the,
27th of April, in order that my importing friends and
custoniets from the interior of England may judge
how hopelesg is arty competition among the lines
of conveyance out of Liverpool either far goods
or passengers. The oldest timber importing and dealing
house in England, end one •of he most extensive
wishing to form a branch, sought the banks of the Mersey,
gild the senior partner having remained here a fortnight,
and finding- the , difficulty of internal transit ruling in
this quarter, the firm ultimately fixed their extensive
branch on the Humber, era:. for American imports.
They are said to have &Mut one hundred and
sixty cargoes of wood during the past season.
Shade of William Euskisson ! We have got Free
Trade truly, and quitted Protection ; but what else
have we got, when the freight from Liverpool to

Manchester is the same as that ruling between Stettin
and the Humber ? When the shareholders of the ' Old
quay Carrying Company' could obtain £7OO for the
original £lOO share, the high rate of traffic dill some-
body good. These rates are still sustained, and yet,
strange to say, the direct lin. between Liverpool and
Manchester (because become the London and North-
Western) has its £lOO worth of stock quoted at par.
If they had a good competitor, it would be better for
themselves and the public, but the competition must
a' art in a line running south, instead of north, of the
Brunswick Dock. Is it wonderful that my employers
should find me work on the Humber as well as the
Mersey ?" We see that Mr. Chaloner has publicly
declared his intention of opening a mahogany market at
Hull, to be independent of the Mersey and the Thames.

LATEST NEWS.

IBY BRITISH AND IRISH MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.'

FRANCE.

PARIS, May 12.

The Moniteur announces that, in yesterday's
sitting of the Legislative Bodies, the report on
the new tariff for sugar and coffee was made to the
Chamber, by the committee that had examined it.

PARIS, May 13.

The Alfoniteur de la Plate of to-day says, it is
announced that the Mediterranean squadron has
received orders to re-enter Toulon, in order to set
out again a more distant mission, respecting,
which no particulars are known. We may, how
ever, be permitted to suppose, that, if not destined
for the coast of Sicily, the squadron would cruise
in the Levant, where agitations both political and
.
religious have recently arisen, which at no distai4
period may necessitate the interference of the
Western Powers.

• TOULOUSE, May 12.
The Spanish Princes slept here last night, and
continued their journey to Paris to-day.

TIIE FRENCH FUNDS.

PARIS, May 12.

3.35 P.M.—The Bourse has again been very
flat and agitated. The final quotation of Renter
was 69f. 85c., being a further decline of 40c. since

yestei•day.

GARIBALDI'S EXPEDITION.

TURIN, May 11.
is asserted that the vessels compOSing Gen.
Garibaldi's expedition have touched at Talmouia,

in Tuscany, in order to take in provisions, to put
the combatants in better condition, and to add
some officers to their ranks. The vessele then

set out again.

GERMANY.

DRESDEN, May 11.

The official Dresden Journal, in referenCe to
the news published by the Nuremburger Ojrres-
pondent, states that the Government of Saxony
has received no overtures on the part of France
respecting the interior affairs of Germany, and
adds, it has reason to believe that none have also
been made to other German Governments.

THE PAPAL STATES.
ROME (via Marseilles), May 8.
General Lamoriciere continues to concentrate
the Papal troops at Gubbio.
It is asserted that General Allegrins, the coin-
manding-officer. at Ancona, has been -reduced to
the non-effective.
The King of Naples has subscribed 1,000,000
Ecadi to the Roman loan.
The Vienna correspondent of the Times states
that recruits continue to go from Austria 'to
Ancona, and it is said that the 6th foreign batta-
lion will soon be completed.