The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-05-19 00:00:00

,ydt, this is what Lord John RussZll, as Foreign
secretary, has done. He has, to all intents and
puopose, countenanced Garibaldi's filibustering
expedition to Sicily,—his invasions with a band of
murderous pillagers, of : the dominions of one
with whim we are in amicable relations: The
Foreign Minister of England has done this; and,
in doing it, has boasted of This haTingliimself, on
'another occasion, committed a similar violation of
the law to that which }gad just been denounced in
his own hearing!.„-Surely one _ who could thus
Iniliscreetly, not to say criminally, identify him-
self with the lawless and the incendiary—and
who could stand up in his place in Parliament
and " glory in his shame"—can ever -be -per-.
witted to retain the seals of the Foreign Office ?;
'Great exertions appear, toba making in Londoi n;
directly in the interest of the Volunteer movement,
but indirectly of the half-holiday movement also.
One noble lord writes to 'the papers, rditinding
the ladies that they have it in their power greatly
to forward the former movement by not shopping
after two o'clock on Saturdays ;• and another nobles
lord writes, pointedly advocating a Saturday half-
holiday, on the ground of its affording tce,young
men in business the opportunity of being (rained
as Volunteers, and thereby obtaining exercise that
must, beinvigorating alike to body and mind.
The Americans are pushing_ their_cotton trade
with the Continent of Europe,-Tmore especially
France, Belgium, and Germany, in which countries ,
cotton manufacture:, are making considerable pro-
gress. It appears that. Mr. Baylor, late American
consul - at Manchester, and agent of the Cotton
Association of Georgia, has returned to the United
States with full powers to take the initiatory
steps to establish a. direct cotton trade between
that country and Entope,—partic.nlitify,~- if' not
exclusively, the COntinent of Europe. It is said
to have been ascertained from persons conversant
with the subject, that the Belgian Governm'ent is
not only willing to encourage the project, but has
advanced funds to Mr. Baylor to open a central
agency in the city of Baltimore. . .
It is generally thoUght, we observe, that the
present precarious state of things 4,tlip
." States
of the Church " is rapidly 'being bronght to a
crisis. The French army, it is ,said, will leave
Rome at the end of this month. General Lamo-
ri cicra will then have the ability and fidelity of his
army put to the test; and it will soon be seen
whether he. can protect the Pope yen Ais
present position) without attempting to!,.recovr
what lost; Romagnas.
Opportunity was taken, it would be observed,
in Committee on the Refreshment Howes grid
Wine Licenses Bill, in the House of Commons on
Thursday. night, to bring forward tWO:, other
matters of congenial interest,—the statute known
as the Tippling Act, which it was unsucedssfully
sought to repeal ; and the privilege granted to
theatres of selling intoxicating drinks, which it
was also moved, .though without effect,- should
now be put an end to. This latter motion, pit
appeared, had several earnest supporters. But
both objects were thought' to be out of place in
Committee on the particular Bill.under conSidCra
tion. 'The whole subject, however, may not
improbably be *fled out anew when the Bill is
brought before the-House Of Lords.
The .Thames and Mersey Insurance Company
is now an accomplished fact. The London sub-
scription list closed the day -before , yesterday,
having been filled' up with the full amount of
shares to be taken) namely, 240,000, The Liverpool
end Manchester lists are also; we Witte; nearly
filled up.

The London Stock Exchange has again been
seriously disturbed by politiCal rumours on thf,
unfavourable aspect of EitrOpean Polities. The
expedition of Garibaldi is now distinctly associ-
ted with strong, suspicionF of ginistor objccta oii
the part of the Emperor of the French. The
iDailti News declares the anneral conviction to be
" that the policy of France is one of selfish
aggrandisement, , and settled hostility to the
union of the entire Italian people' under one
sceptre,"--7a_ policy, therefore,
.which may well
give uneasiness as to the maintenance of the peace
of EUrope. Another cause of the preyailing dis-
trust is the protest of our Minister at St. Peters-
burg against the contemplated interference of
Russia in the Turkish Enipite; ;Ntitli Which if is
more 'than suspected i.fie Pieneli Emperor is
"secretly connected.

It appears, by a letter fr)m Rome, in one of
the London papers, that the principal portion of
the fund raised in Ireland for the service of the
Pope, is appropriately to be devoted to the
expenses of the Irish recruits, who are now
arriving in large numbers in the pontifical
dominions.

The Prencii scheine of the Stiez Ca;nal is at
length, it appears, in actual operation,—;-that is to
say, the business of the company has at length
commenced. Such, at least, is the declaration of
its celebrated promoter, M. Lesseps, at a meeting
in Paris a few days since. This canal; according
to the 7'inics,," every Frenchman who knows

anything at all of the Matter knows MI well, if
it is ever achieved, is expected to be a success of
France against Englani, and to give the former
country some formidable advantage over the
latter. Either the overland route to India
Would be barred, or the Red Sea' would be coin-
Mandedi or some Other torisequence terrible to
England and glorious to France would be sure to
lel/04." Not that the leading journal believes in
these consegtientei, it Rienisi ails •iiiore than it
believes in the possibility of the canal itseit. but
such, it contends, are the views which have been
impressed upon Frenchmen,—an impression
Which has not unnaturally led theM to conclude
that England•niust be decidedly hoftile to it. It
was on this account, strpoae; that M. festeps
took occasion to bestow a special eulogy of the
" commercial classes" of England, who have sup-
ported his scheme,—although\ our :contemporary
insists that they"have done eo because they anti-
cipated a reasonable profit from the speculation,"
and maintains that "if M. Lesseps wishes to
retain their sympathies he has only to: provide
them, not with polite compliments, but with a.
good dividend."
There is yet no reason to doubt that Garibaldi
is succeeding in Sicily;: although the details of
his progress are still scanty and inconChisive.
Telegraphic -despatches from Naples represent the
capital to be in-a state Of the utmost commotion ;
and so alarmed had the King and his:. Court
become, that they had packed up all the more
portable articles of value, and were themselves
quite prepared to take flight, carrying the
valuables along with them. Everything, in
short, it is stated, appeared to presage a general
insurrection; and, worst of all for the Royal.
cause, defections were beginning to take place in
the army. It is not improbable, therefore, that
to-morrow or next day we may hear of the
Sicilian insurgents having become masters of the
kingdom. The question then arises, what next P
Many are of opinion that the whole Italian penin-
sula will soon afterwards be in a blaze.

The Meriting Herald denies that all this hubbub
about the intention of the House of Lords to reject
the Bill for the repeal of the Paper duty is pro-
voked by a desire to benefit the working classes.
" It is not difficult," it obsrrves, " that, in all this,
not Mr. Bright but Lord Derby is the real friend
of the working men. What taxes are those which
the working men desire especially to see abo-t
lisbed ? If the country were polled froth north'
to south, and from east to. west, the universal
answer would be—' Let us retaiu the duty on
paper until such time as so large an amount of
revenue can be spared, but let us get rid of the
taxes ou tea and- sugar; of which Mr. Gladstone
long ago promised us the reduction.' As long