The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-05-26 00:00:00

servative 'journal, we 110,yd:really no wish to
embarrass the Government,,or to disturb Minis-
ters in their places. We are quite prepared to
accept any alternative they may please in their
wisdom- to suggest. The only thing we ask of
Lord Palmerston at present is that he will put as
speedy an end as possible to the dreadful tortures
which 1-iis Radical allies seem just now to be
enduring. If this uncertainty is to last for
another week, we should not like to have to
answer
_for the consequences." Whitsuntide,
however, will furnish a convenient pretext for
deferring all explanations for at least another
'week.

Among other portents of counter-revolution in
Italy may be noticed the fact of the party of the
Grand Duke of Tuscany agitating Florence, by
causing exciting addresses to be issued declaiming
against the new order of things. It is believed
that a restoration is anxiously sought by the
higher classes of Tuscany.
It appears from intelligence just received by
the African mail, that some misunderstanding has
unhappily arisen between the clergy of the Church
of England at the Cape and the laity, and that
the latter had been appealed to in vain for their
contributions in support of the church there.
The laity want the church funds to be adminis-
tered by a committee, with a prepondeiance of
lay members, of which the bishop only should be
the president ; and that the congregations should
select their own clergymen, whom the bishop
should approve and license. But this is objected
to on -the ground that it is not in accordance
with-right ecclesiastical principles.
The accounts from Sicily continue conflicting.
There is no doubt, however, that the insurrec-
tion is gaining ground, and that Garibaldi is
succeeding in his object of overthrowing the Nea-
politan Government there. It is now considered
to be beyond all question, in fact, that Sicily is
lost to the King of Naples. The accounts being
conflicting, is entirely attributable to their coming
from the two opposite sides : each gives its own
version of what is going on, and they are not an-
naturally at utter variance with each other. The

;act of volunteers continuing to land, and rein

forcing Ge.ribaldi's ranks, is of itself pretty decisive
of the success of the popular cause. Palermo was
considered safe in the interest of that cause. Mes-
sina's expected rising had still not taken place at
the date of .the last accounts.

The French Emperor is affecting to be reluct-
ant to interfere in the Turkish question which the
Russian Government is forcing on the European
Powers. His Majesty thinks it premature—or,
at least, he says he does—to bring it forward at
the present moment; only, as it has been officially
taken up, " France considers that she acts in con-
formity with the interests of Europe by asso-
ciating herself with Russia, otherwise a pretence
would be given to that power to assume the
exclusive protectorate of the Christian subjects of
the Sultan." This is all very plausible. But the
worst of it is, that it is only plausible,

CRINOLINITES & LOCAL EXCITEMENTS
IN THE WESTERN METROPOLIS.

THE people of England—indeed the people of
Europe generally—except, of course, the com-
paratively few who may have lately visited the
Western World, have probably but little idea of
the growing extent, importance, and magnifi-
cence of that world's:great metropolis.': The city
Of New YOrk, which little more than thirty or
five-and-thirty years ago was comprised in a
triangular area of scarcely a mile in length, by
not half that dimension at its extreme breadth,
is now rapidly covering the whole Island of
Manhattan, on which it stands, and which
stretches from south to north some thirteen or
fourteen miles in extent,—covering it, too, with
noble streets and squares, thickly studded not.
only with buildings of unrivalled magnitude and
sFieLidc.z.zz- .a.aamercial and business purpo-ac3.
of every kind, but with palatial private edifices,
magnificent public atruetares, and beautiful
churches. Of the " grand trunk " of this won-
derful city—its far-famed Broadway—everybody
has heard; and our last accounts inform us how
much its animation, and its general effect, had
already become heightened and improved by the
genial influences of the vernal season. The
weather, it appears, had suddenly changed from
cold and wet to warm, bright, and dry ; and
while, under its reviving influences, nature
was in the country assuming its gayest
attire, in towd the great and fashionable
theroughfare we have mentioned was begin-
ning to be seen in its best aspect, and pre-
senting a most interesting spectacle. "From morn-
ing till night," we read, " the trattoie of Broad-
way .was crowded with all sorts and conditions
of men and women, from all ranks of society,
and all parts of the civilised world." The women,
of course, were the most attractive objects, even
more from their artificial than natural embellish-
ment. of the scene. And no wonder, when we are
told that " the New York ladies dress more, not
to say better, than any other crinolinites in the
n.ia if 412,•3- ao not proaucc a. stunning
effect upon the spectator, it is not because their
clothes are inexpensive. "- In this respect, in
fact, it is boasted that the metropolis of the west
exhibits them as beyond all rivalry. "If it is a
question of crinoline, that of the New York lady
is the most expansive ; if long dresses are the
rage, Broadway can show trains equal to those
of Queen Elizabeth ; if it is a question of little
bonnets, the belles of Manhattan are content with
a wafer on the backs of their heads ; if the coal
scuttle hat comes in, we can show a fashionable
lady who has retired to a seclusion as profound
as that of Charles the Fifth of Spain."
In short, the dames and demoiselles of all the rest
of that rising repnblie, we are assured, are but
" satellites revolving around the goddesses of
Manhattan, and must be contented to imitate
rather than to lead the fashions."

There would be ample evidence in all this,
were there in nothing else, how " the metropolis
of the Western World grows in extent, increases
in material wealth, and progresses in all the arts
and refinements of life." To such a degree is it
thus growing, and so immense are the various
personal and popular displays of it getting
to be, that Broadway, many miles, in length
though it is, has become utterly inadequate to
the necessities of the case ; and it has, there-
fore, been found indispensably necessary to pro-
vide a public park, occupying, we know not
how many hundred acres, which, though situated
some five or six miles from the centre of the city,
is already a place of fashionable and general
resort,—a park that is being furnished with all
the delightful appliances of lakes, fountains, ter-
races, drives, bridle-roads, gardens, shrubberies,
conservatories,—and, above all, as harmonising
most of all with their republican system, a public
promenade which, we are told, " is popular with
all classes, from the millionaire to the beggar?
And thus is a work being accomplished which, it
is boasted, " was not only required to place the
city fairly upon a metropolitan basis as compared
to the European capitals, but, what is of more
consequence, is the construction - of a public
ground which will be thing of beauty and a
joy for ever,'"—an impression which ther:r3-
opening of the vernal season within its
has fully borne out by the brilliancy of precincts
t
attractive
though they are, which give an extraordinaryltis
interest and importance to such a city.
its being the continual inlet to, as well as the
its scene..
But it is not these things only,
actual habitation of, a vast and varied population
that most enhances its position. Its citizens have
been 'gathered from all the nations of Europe ;
and tile continual drainage of the old world igto