The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-04-20 00:00:00

Earl Grey's • :!1. I_ o...t..motionAar a select com-
mittee of in. - 0—
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t was ie to force on the third
of the • urch-rates` Abolition Bill, u one.
Oraie COMmons last night,
protracted stay of eneral 013Ohnell at
Tatinui has been the cause .'f considerable sPecu-
lation. Some haVe thonght. that hostilities may
break out again. Otherkthink that a permanent
occupation of Tetuan is desired 1?y the Queen of
Spain ; while, again, it is snggested that the
Carlist insurrection;- • and General. - o!Donnell's
unaccountable delay in returning to Spain, are
facts which have some remote connection with
each other. Perhaps a more probable conjecture
is, that the Gtneral WisheS to, receive and carry
Back With him,. as the first-fruits of his victories,
a large payment to account of the-indemnity-stipu-
lated for. There are many doubts, however, as to
probability of -the money ever bein fort .coming
in part or in Whole; for, tne :Nloors, hive
no right to re-ectiri).',,ir their citadel until- the for
feit paid, they autty=-hOpe to render a. permanent
occupation by the Spaniards too annoying and
unprofitable to be persisted in. The most sage
suggestion of.all, however, is that nobody really
knows why 'O'Donnell' remains at Tetuan. The
whole subject of the war in Morocco has been for
the moment to some extent lost sight of in Spain
in the excitement produced by the late foolish and
most unfortunate attempt at insurrection on the,
part of the carlists.
The first report of Ortega's death was subse-.
quently contradicted.. It is now, however, posi-
tively asserted that he was shot on the evening
of the 18th. It has been conjectured that Ortega
was in possession of secrets which people out of
Spain, as well as in it, might not like to be
disclosed. -There are various dark whisper's as to
the origin, connection, and object of his foolish
attempt, the real meaning and truth of which; if
any there be, will, in "all probability, ooze out some
of these days.
The gradual fusion of Tuscans, iEmilians, Lom-
bards, and Piedmontese into one. Italian people,
with one common bond of sympathy, as the
inhabitantstof:one great Italian kingdom, although
it can only be the work of time, promises to be
greatly facilitated by the judicious arrangements
of the Government for gradually amalgamating
the army destined to garrison the . respective
provinces of the newly united kingdom. Each
garrison .will be composed of men from the regi-
ments of some of the other provinces, and will
-recruit from the natives of the district in which
*they may happen to be Located, and the stations
will be frequently shifted.. Thus, without imme-
diately altering- the organisation of the' arity,
the process of assimilation will be, easily, if not
speedily, completed.: .
We have, no later news to confirm the vague
assertion of yesterday's brief telegram, that
France and SWitterland had come, or were likely'
soon to come, to a favourable understanding; and
we more than ever doubt the probability of the
truth of the report: Can any One. suppose that;
France has quietly gNen up her arrogant claims ?
If not, who can contemplate the French occupa-
tion of Chablais and Faucigny without. seeing,
evenby a glance at a good map, that the positions
of Geneva, the Pays de Vaud, and Vallais must
virtually be sacrificed to SWitzerland and the
independance of that• Republic thereby all but lost
to Europe. Only grant the .presecitdemand to the
French 'Emperor, and he need not lose much more
time, as there is really nothing to cause him any
trouble, in advancing from Douvaine by Amie-
masse to St. Julien on the one side, or from Gex
to the Rhone on the other, upon the practically-
worthless fortress of ,Gene Va. We look upon the
pretended sohltion of the difficulty-as one of the
worst features of the case. What if it is only
another Napoleonic dodge to sooth the fears of
England? How soon shall we .see the end of
" these slopes P!
The Savoy question was the great subject of
debate in the House of Commons last night, but
nothing satisfactory came out of it. Who
looks now for a satisfactory. explana-
tion of the real state of our foreign affairs
so long as Lord John Russell is allowed to remain
at the head of the Foreign Office ?

THE remark- of a modern novelist that • most
people, whatever they may say, like naughty
things, may be applied with full force to English
society during the present week. , Probably there
is not a British -liimiSe that has riot for many -days
past resounded thick with all sorts of moralities
on the subject of prize-fighting. In this verbal
contest, preparatory to the " great international
event," who can doubt that even the fighting has
been all on the one side, as well as the victory ;
and that the two' " Champions" have suffered
without a chance- of rejoinder, a perfect hail-
storm -01 knock-down Mews: Of course we have
all been outraged at the picture conjured up, of
two men for the love of sport, or out of some false
notion of honour, or vain distinction, deliberately
standing before one another, shaking hands,
congratulating each other. on their fresh looks and
excellent . condition, and then straight Way pro-
ceeding to beat one another into mummies, batter
. one another's teeth out, or eyes out, and paint on
—the-divine lineaments of humanity the semblance
of the brute creation, possibly to be carried with
them to the grave. There is no doubt, one por-
tentous " shocking!" has echoed from one, end of
the British isles to the other ; and this not merely
from matrons or from clergy Men, but from society
at large. We must, therefore, all knit our brows,
and shake our heads, and lift our deprecating
hands, and admit to each other gravely that
prize-fighting is a very "naughty thing,". and
. prizefighters • very bad- people. Well, the
.-British public haiing done all this, what do we find
next ? We find; a very suspicious sort of excite-
ment all of a sudden spread over the whole surface
of society. We-find the British public very curi-
ously hunting in all corners of all newspapers for
scraps of the latest on dits dated from the for-
bidden region of the "P. R.," and patriarchs of
decornth informing their well-conducted families
of - the last Odds 'laid- against the chosen of
America. We find as the time approaches
for putting an 'end to this universal suspense,
that all England.has but one eye, and that it is
turned with anxious gaze on a. certain spot in
the south-east, and on the image of a special
train wending its fiery course in the early .morn-
ing's grey-from the still slumbering neighbour-
hood of .Loridon-bridge. And, to crown all, we
.are at last fated to suffer acute aural ;pains -at
.every turn•from .de?fening cries of Belts :Life :
we stumble over_ Bell's Life. ; we feel as if in a
storm of snow amid nothing but Bees Life ; we
the. idea; secretly gloat over 'the. idea; if Bon Life
were suspended on a single hair, with what fero-
cious ;glee. -we could .cut At i and after all -our
1 maledictions, or all our patience, we find this_
vitality renewing itself for ever and living by
what it feeds on. The English of all -this being
-.simply that this decorous and moral British
. public has for.: week or more been passing its
real existeneaof hopes. and fears amid the assn-
eiations and predictions of the. Prize Ring !
•
' ,Now, we must honestly-pinfess that neither as
philanthropisti ' nor as Cliriatians • are we over
;careful- to pronounce . a decided opinion. on
the iropriety of such contests as that which
has now „kepi nearly making us all out '
in spite' of outeel,i,es, patrons of the "P. R."
We feel it 'impracticable to apply the high
standard of - Christian morals to any such
question. The highest type of religion will be
'always so much above the mass of us, that even
Chiistian: legislators have n 6 resource but to
adapt their maxims sometimes to lower neces-
sities. If we refuse to legislate for the multitude
except upon- principles which go over 'their heads,
we have no alternative but to leave theni blindly
at the mercy of passions and -tastes for which it
would have been better. to have provided some
control though upon lower motives, and an
avenue for indulging them with a certain
decency though not by the strictest rule of
refinement. Perhaps; for instance, as Maine Law
advocates tell us, it would be better on the whole
if men did not indulge in stimulants. Yet, if
they were forcibly .deprived of them, it might
well be feared' that more dangerous vents would
be at hand for superfluous excitement.
What is to be done, then, with that sense of
physical superiority which is so bewitching to
mankind? In face of the evils which its irregu-
lar and will& . indulgence is calculated to pro-
duce, may not even prize-fighting have the credit
of providing for it a more regular and recognised
vent, which hai, morecii-er, about it a: smaCk of
honour, and is hemmed -round-by the rules of reci-