The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-04-13 00:00:00

NEW ENGLISH ALLIANCE.
BERLIN, April 12.

The Keen: Zeitung of this evening says :—" In
well-informed circles it is believed that a union
will be effected between Prussia, England, and
Austria, in reference to the threatened interest of
Switzerland ; but it is expressly stated that no
hopes are entertained that Russia will join this
alliance."

THE FRENCH FUNDS.

PARIS, April 12.

3.30 P.M.—The Funds opened firm at a further
advance. A reaction subsequently took place,
and the last quotation of Rentes was 70f. 25c.
or about the same as yesterday. The dividends
of the Northern of France, and the Paris and
Lyons Railway Companies, have been announced,
that of the former is 651 f., and of the latter 63f.

COMBAT IN PALERMO.

MARSEILLES, April 12.

A letter from Naples states that the combat in
Palermo was very bloody, most of the insurgents
having perished at the barricades. Several.
monks of the convent were seized and imprisoned.
Reinforcements have been sent into Sicily. The
commercial steam-boats have been put into requi-
sition, and the army in Sicily will be augmented
to 30,000 men. Prince Castelincala has returned
to his post as governor of the island. Prince
Filagiere has arrived, in order to confer with the
King. The panic at Naples, on the 6th instant,
was general, but without consequence.

PENINSULAR MAILS.
SOUTHAMPTON, April 12.

The Sultan steamer, with the Peninsular mails,
arrived at 3.30 p.m. Shg left Lisbon on the 7tb4
of April ; Oporto, Bth ; and Vigo, 9th. The
cargo is large, including an importation of neW
potatoes. Strong winds throughout the voyage,
squally, with torrents of rain. Observed the
Peru steamer off the Burlings, steering southward.
At Vigo, the British barque Sternbough, from
Odessa, with cargo (grain) shifted.

BOMBAY AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, April 12.

The Indus steamer, with the heavy portion of
the Bombay and Australian mails, also arrived at
Southampton this afternoon. Dates—Alexandria,
28th March ; Malta, Ist April ; Gibraltar, 6th;
and the usual general cargo of silks, tusks, coffee,
wine, &c. At Malta were H. M.'s ships Marlbo-
rough, Victor Emmanuel, Orion, Cressy, and
Caradoc. At Gibraltar, the Hannibal, Renown, -
James Watt, Agamemnon, Doris, Scylla,
Mohawk, and Lapwing. Observed the Euxina,
steamer April 7 ; H.M.'s royal yacht Victoria
and Albert, steering S.E., forty miles to the S.E•
of Cape St. Vincent ; 10 50 p.m., passed Pera
steamer.

GREAT REFORM DEMONSTRATION AT.

MANCHESTER, LAST NIGHT.

An immense meeting, under the auspices of the Lan'
cashire Reformers' Union, was held at the Free-trade
Hall last night. The large room was crowded to excess•
in every part, and it is considered that not less that'
5,500 persons were present.
Mr. George Wilson presided ; and amongst otheis
on the platform were Mr. John Bright, M.P., Mr. Thosw.,
Bazley, M.P., &c., &c. The entrance of Mr. Bright
was greeted with loud applause, the whole audience
rising.
The Chairman having addressed the meeting, he called
upon
Mr. Thomas Bazley, M.P., who moved a resolution'
in favour of a greater measure of Reform than that now
before Parliament, including the Ballot ; but at the
same time pledging the meeting to aid in passing the
bill now before the House of Commons, as an iastalry:fir,.
of that reform which was sought.

Mr. P. Rylands, of Warringtoa., 'seconded the too-
lution.

Mr. H. Ashworth supported the resolution, which was
carried unanimously.
Mr. BRIGHT then rose, and was received with loud
cheers, which were again and again repeated. He said,
as this was a holiday time, some critics there undoubtedly
were who work} ask what 'right they had to hold such
a meeting, but he did not care for that. He
came there
to speak what he had to say candidly and honestly.
Looking back to the two months or more of the time
which Parlianaent had been assembled together, they
were, he thought, satisfactoiy. If it were not for the
guilty expenditure which had been proposed, he should
entirely concur in all Mr. Gladstone and the Government
had done. The budget must be taken as part of the
commercial tseaty with France. Eighteen years ago the
budget of Sir Robert Peel swept away *the Wise
upon numerous articles. Mr. Gladstone's budget had
swept away 400 mare, and now there remained no Wise
upon the tariff of more than as many articles as they
could count on their ten fingers. In addition to this,
the paper duty had been swept away—a duty which was
the more odious because the country in which it W 6.11
levied was a free country. Men who sat on the Opp°"
sion side of the House, with an impudence alin?s,
sublime, had said that the very chiefest of the api'cle•
of Free-trade, in negotiating the treaty Tiifn France?
had utterly failed, and that he aia not Cknow his busi•
nem He then combat 4 the laritoxs arguments of the
opposition—the Dines and other people. The Tiorry
which had been see-sawing on this question for the last
,
three months, and which had a remarkable faculty to'.
finding mares' nests, had said that it would have been veil
much tetser if Ole negotiation of the treaty had been lei"
to an experienced diplomatist. Now, he did not keort
what part Lord Cowley had taken in the matter; 10
he did know that he had rendered such services as
entitled him to the thanks of Mr. Cobden, and the
gratitude of Englishmen. The real cause of opP°sl-,
tion, however, to the budget had hitherto been al:
' cealed ; and now- he believed it would do more toriarS
the cementing together of the people of this count',
and France than anything else that had been done. I, :
then went on to speak of the various ways in vil"',.3
this country and Franoe had been %aged, and shoviL
chdc d.riag n‘q.,,is 1.,..1e ~ef 01., AZ ,cers interval-IT.
between 16,90. and 1815, we had been at war 131..7,
Franco, and those wars had nearly cost as much as bets
countries were worth. The Times followed sornewbs
in the steps of the Morning Adre4iser; and if it Were
not for such articles as freqoently, appeared therein,
army and navy exnenditure might be reduAecL;
£10,000,000 per annum. By making a treaty for vaaal`f,
nations frigoa,ly- by comm,erce, such as existed betweel:
England and America, it was much more likely tip
thu peace of Europe would be preserved than 4 •
potvaliant editors and foolish statesmen. He nott'Pn
ceeded to speak of the question of reform, and regrekW
that the bill now before the country did not desist
the ballot and a more extensive re-distribraion of scar'
but he had no doubt, because all the members Of we
Cabinet were not greatly in love with-extensive Tetortat
that Lord John Russell sued lead as much difficulty re
passing his bsil through the Cabinet t's he would pa',
in passing it, through the houses laving given sin%
statistics as to what Lord John Itussell's bill would °hit
in the way of extending the Franchise, he spoke 4 t a
bill which Pitt proposed; then of that of
Lca.
Grey and Mr. Fox; and then of that of Lord Durham
all all of which were good bills for the times in which Cher
were proposed,. and that of the heaven-born Min
Pitt, and that of Lord Durham, dealt with the matter,
on the basis of household suffrage, He then denied'
that if household suffrage were now granted, ttneg
wegld be any combination among the rr ids
Men to swamp the rich and wealthy. Mr. Wiutnes,
_.
had in the House showed what a dreadful lot ?f
bine tile
bricklayers and carpenters were, but he haa t
, vet bad
that those Yell?, men, whom he described as
-s
and • dreudful, now had the
Besides, it never yet had been lornY r ea very had
unions
Strikes were were
Mr. Whiteside's
The House of Commons—the men of
frau ed. thatinstrLikoe;datotneuna
Corn Law
com-
bined till 1846, when they—the
, party—combined, in 1815, and they remained trheoemawt;erdkill:o culoemill
League—struck. Hoping that the
.0.7
not now befall us as that which ~,LnTt'll. 4,410_4
bill and treaty, he again alluded.___.`,L4 ,z,Li!! ,fillv-es
newspaper and the :Yarning Andrffintaa-:_uc , ones,
in tIV NVAtO GI the ertiser, not
although it followed,„., .4 if noss;"
ei_tht_ini
ig ipnr,-.a.-t
in the same brutal seurr.o. y, 7,
__if ...ne, it Impasse('
• that paper. 14 far in articles °,.1, at'-agnitY more satanic.
Only recently, they would rel..ember, that One of those— -
papers indulged in weting articles 011 the
character of
the Queen and the Court ; and those articles he (Mr'
Bright) denounced, because he believed they
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knew what would be said, but
who knew
mind that he was there •
countrymen,
day. He was an Eng "
but he did, care for the He cared nothing for the •• '
an
ofe i
l tehhey
anonymous
Quarterlyw riwere
to an article which
in presence of 7,000 of ~
the he asked them tteorl:ilghzit.
where to find bin' an'
lishman like themselves.
reeevldeminugs
woefreettehe
otprettl
' country. He asked them the whether they would
thus allow their interests to bent'rampled, as it were,
the
press. and blood by these anonymous writers in tn
were
press. Nations might guide themselves, if they
wise, through perilous tunes, but he advised them not to
wait for bad times, as they were called, before theY,
passed the Reform Bill. He had given twenty Years '9;
his life to the people's cause and service,
he might be said to live and move and hareora..
being among them and in their behalf, and acicf b,
ingly he should think he had done much
, Cause
advanced the cause of truth and theu which
but one single step, he had denounced thewars _web.
had been brought on by blundering statesmen,:
f the
country and politiestli,
had absorbed the sweat and toil and the blood as
?
any i°9-4 their countryman, or less loyal to his co stn
rests
1." Y; an he asked, because of that, whether heaL.
...Lie hon. member thus concluded :—I believe
eople of
wen of
with the press of England and with_ teheetafes
England controlling the press, and with th
England, whether the peace of these
an
and England—shall be kept or broken;__
orke of :yell!:
feel that lam honestly addressing "14'n the gafetY andt
fellow-citizens, and seeking
.to pronw'aoviapplatire'/
happiuss of the peoplg Qt. %14 tegail v--
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