The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-04-07 00:00:00

OUTPORTS.

Esperance, rock, from Pernambuco at Pa'Month:
DEAL, April 6.—Arrived and passed: Despatch, from Ter-
den to London; City of Hamilton; Quebec to Leddon.
Gravnstrio, April6.—Aiiived : Balder, from Ystl4At: Tee'rge
'WashingtOn, Siam ; Gefilo, umesundel Rena, and Hendrika
Midst, Helsingborg ; Proverity, Anistevitini ; Rose, Antwerp.
Sailed : Mary Ann, for Corfu ; Pattas, Amsterdam.
Br,LTAST, April S.—Sailed : ttisan Wcst; for Plymouth.
Gittrsoex, April 6 --Arthett : Rebecca (ss). from Valecncia.
Sailed : Wolfe's Cove, for Quebec ; America, Montreal.
QuEmsstowiz, Apttl 6.--Arrived : Ellen Bate from Bombay
for Liverpool; Pllcenik Frignerd, Greenock, windbo ,nd ; Vigo
(Cs), New York, and proceeded; Pdo Tiebre, Genoa, goes to
Bristol. Ulf: Rock City, from Bombay for Liverpool.

MARITIME EXTRACTS •
LIVERPnOti, April 6.
A new. screw-steamer arrived. here to-day, (corn the Clyde,
for Messrs. M'lver and Co.
The Isle, Jewitt, from Sunderland at Mauritiuz, lost whv4-
house and skylight, and had horse on deck stove in a gale, 7'l
Feb, in lat. 31 S., loa. 21 E. ,
Passed Queenstown, for Liverpoel, tae brut Falcon, from
Geelong, which ves el reports haling spoken on the 2nd inst.
at 6 p.m , about 70 miles of Cape Clear, tit, brig Nelsen, trews
'Monte Video, for Cork, 'with los • of mainmast and all attached.
Per pilot cutter Melie.
symNiTrw, April 4 : The schooner Empress, arrived off
_here, from T. rceira for London. picked up the crew of the
Tree, of Greenock. on fire April 2. Mem. The Yrc,, Taylor,
ef Greenock, sailed from Liverpool for Bombay March 26,

SHIPS INTENDING TO SAIL FROM LIVEIIPOOL
FOR THE PRINCIPAL PORTS THIS MONTH.

Destination.
AUSTRALIA :
Adelaide Lima
Melbourne ant! Ge'd:ong Gosport
Melbourne" Geelong, and
Aneklaad. Commodore Perry „ 20.
Fredk. Gobhard „ 25.
Ramlritan flay 1.
Saldattah
Chiloe A tied IS,.
.Great Tasmania . tiay 2.

Ship's Name.

To Sill.
1861).
.April 12.
t, 13.

13y(Iney

EAST 11,DIILS:.
Bombay •

'• calphunla ..........April 10.
mttlalt— .i, :,. 14. - •
Havelock
.„ 23.
Vespasian - • „ 12.
Naha Ranee
•II -1.
William Melhuish „ 25.
Madras Merrington
Ceytet . British Banner ... „ 18.
t!incapore Medora „ 22.
Manilla Primera do Espana v, P.?
Hong Kong and Whampoa.., Valdivia. , , 2l
Shangha- • Kate Carat. • t, 23.
,Algoa Bay
UsITED STATTS
New York

Caloata .

Cof I3ilitimore ss „ 11.
...Africa (s)
• „ 14.
.ss)
...0 of ashington ss „ 25.
...A.cia (s)
..Win. Woodhull, „ 8.
...Lucy Thompson
Wctb
„Dreadnought
...Princeton
:W. S. Linba.t.,;... ' „ 20.
„Amery& ...... „ 7.
r-troPa (s)

11,. rec.,.
......

HaCias and Bogton

Boston

Argo
Valentia -
Saranak ,9 12.
..... ........ Westmoreland - „ 25. •
Vanguard lB.
Colombo - „ 12.
Jane Henderson „ 20.
- Borneo

Philadelphia.

New Orlean.c ,
Charleston ,
Baltimore

NORTH-AMERICA
Canada, via Portland.

North Scotian (re) „ 11.
North Britee (es):. „ 18.
Steamer(es) „ 2.5.
G. D. Peters „ 10.
Allan Dale ... ...... —...—, a
___

Quebec ....

sr
Montreal
Halifax. U.S

Woodfield .
- Squindo
Solon

SOVTII ImsattcA
Bahii

..Demerara PO 9-
...Castor .... :.... „ 21.
...Belle
Atrevida
David Harrison .. „ 16.
Senator ' ~ 21.
„
Marc Weir
Monte Video and Buenos Ayres.Floeist
Valparaiso
_. Lanercost ..„ ll.
'Plena
119 19.
„ • Black Prince

Pernambuco

•••'
Rio de Jan Aro

WEST INDIES :
Barbadoes.—

Rose
Inca
Maria Needham
„Johann

18.
. 21.

Kingston, Jamaica.

Demerara
Havanna .
~ • . '

Parker
Liml•

„ 18,
„ 18.
>, 2!.

...Ysuaqaiza
...Morga ......

~,, 2&.

19
MAIDITEaRANIAIC :
Alexandria Beireut, , and
Alexandretta Euphrates (es) ,
Alexandria,- Beirout, • and -
Alexandretta Pactolas tss)
Constantinople, Smyrna, and
Syria '„La:eonlit (sei)
Palermo, Messina, Corfu, Au-

PIP 10.

cona, and Trieste
Palermo, Iyesslnar, Corfu, An-

.Venetian (se)._

• 9 9 10.

~ 10.

THE DAY'S NEWS.

There can he no trestion as to the importance
of union in Germany, in the present state of
Europe.. Net only the smaller States, but Aus-
tria and Prussia ' likewise, must ,all unite, and
present -one' forMidable German phalanx,-the
absence of which it is, as we see well observed,
" that places the great Teutonic race in perpetual
alarm for its liberties by a nation not more nume-
rous than itaelf,"—the revise of Which, there can
be no doubt) " is to be found in the fact • that the
French are a nation, the Germans only an aggre-
gate of confederated States." . We quite agree;
therefore, in the opinion, that "the emergency
presses, and Germany is called upon to make its
choice between the institutions that So often have
ruined, and the unity and efficiency by which
alone it can be saved." No' one can have watched
with any attention the recent policy of the
French Emperor, wilhont arriving at such a con-
clusion as this. Nor has England much less
interest in such " unity and efficiency," than
Germany has. It is in that direction she must
look for her most reliable alliances, when these
....... .. • - -I ._
with France havebeen broken upa-11.4 61e knows
not how soon may be th'e., Vase.
Atcordint ti private accounts. from Mex;co
it Steins that General Miramon was influenced in
hiareselntion to relinquish the contest at Vera
Cruz, by the representations of the . British
Government, conveyed through Captain Aldham
of her Majesty's sb.ipValorot, 'oio had an inter-
view. with hint &ming his advance upon the city.
A despatch. from Lord John Russell, it_ is stated,
pointed. .out to both parties the outrages they
were inflicting upon
.their common country,,and
also:the offences against foreign residents, for.
which they would be held respoU'iiblt,tAa. Con
eluded by advising an atatistice for six or twelve
:months, sad tht summoning of a general assem-
blylviee which Miramon at once determined
to set the example of following.
After all, it would appear that there is really
no available Commercial Treaty with France yet
in existence. There_ has been a great dial a 'talc
about one—much bargas.iiin* Anti bartering 'about
it—and in alt. Which England was evidently to,
have 'the worst of it ; and yet the Treaty itself
has still to be contracted—such a Treaty, at_ any
rate, as will not ' only deserve the name of one
but be one of any practical advantage it ibis
country. As the. Time* temaili respecting it,
"we have deice a good thing in lowering our
own dillies if it turns out that we can do without
them; but, as for any return of this civility from
France, that is a delusion, and the sooner our
manufacturers open their eyes to the fact the
better for their own comfort at least," The V, in
such a case, is all-introrttnt i and so, indeed, is
the stipulated return prom France having already
hecorne a delusion. "It is vain to ask," as the
leading journal further observes, " whether this
is the sort of Treaty that Mr. Cobden thought he
was making, because the Treaty is not yet Made,
in the opinion of Government; and our mantfac-
turers find themselves asked to make it for
themselves. The Wonder increases why the
Treaty, yet to be Made, end doe oilly in the
general, was ;not made A bllee and outright, by
regular diplotnatists, of whom England possesses
and maintains' a legion." The fact is, that
• .. . .
the whole negotiation has been a political job
from beginning'to end. It was not on the 'Merits
of the question that the British gTaistly entered
into it, but as a nieatts to 'pito another end than
that which Conahttrelal Treaties have ostensibly
and legitimately in view—that, namely, of buy-
ing the support of the Manchester s•ilartA a distin-
guished member of whith was selected to conduct
the negotiation'; 11-iia so selected, not because he
was a. diplomatist, or knew anything of Treaty-
making, but simply because he was popular as a
Manchester partisan. And the consequence is,
according to the Times, that elthoUgh " Mr. Cob-
den supposed himself Making a Treaty when he
was surrendering all that should hive formed our
side of the bargain; yet, now that the fact is too
plain, /3ritiSh manufacturers are requested to go.,
to Paris and mend matters if they can, So far," '
continues our astute contemporary, " professional
diplomatists hive a' triumph, for Lord Cowley 'i
probably considered himself superseded by, the
arrival of an Ambassador Extraordinary in the
great apostle of Free. Trade. The officials are not
the only people Who exhaust their art in, knowing
how not to do a thing; for if 'the object was to give
a fresh *opening %to British manufactitres • by the
increase of a direct trade with France, that has not
been done." So.that it is now very naturally sug-
, .
."gFigeared,tirovy:len;ian
awcehboiaetonhtdeba isec
bound,
ii
ri
hrn4fte:cbi
le,witnefaohttre.
eno
it
thati.
fParliament reassembles it
ishould3ot:ii,hr'.eeifsseo:a,Te,h,,
re
will
hear,tilyi,,
certainlya and
aonhaouwt
nh faroo -
more than they are
obliged by. the letter of their bond, and it is a
new principle that our manufacturers are to
address themselves for relief not te.thek.own but
to a foreign Government." It is ale.ar thatif the
Coalition Cabinet with the help of their Pienipe-.
lentiary, Mr. Cobden, have not been positively
~ sold 4-by 'the artful and over-reaching Louis
Napoleon, they haVe at' least made a mess of the
whole affair, . , . .

The accounts of the reception of the French
troops in Savoy and Nice are somewhat conflict-
ing—More especially as to the latter province. It
now appears beyond question, indeed, that at Nice,
not only was it cold,. but in the end almost repul-
sive. The only sign of exultation, or even of
satisfaction, seems to havbeea at the residOce
of the FrenCh COnsul, Where, of course, there
Would he signs-of rejoicing as the troops 'marched
butt: it is, said ihiit when, they retired to_ their
barracks, which they did amid general silence,

the xoFo_plitho had remained Ig_ their houses
-'B'6.lltege passed, then madea dbiefonstra-
.
tion, but,*was by cryitig repeatedly in favour Of
Italy anlifticter Emma
• .
The French are very angry with England tst
objectingto: annektition.jof Saitoy slid Nice!
she is lictt..9olY being aSSailed With. the.
of PerActiAThion, but she is accnyed of ':having
'destbiled and crushed' Ireland, oppressed the
lonian Isles, and tyranniiedyniter India. And
not only is this the course that the journals of all
sides are pursuing against us, but it is said there
is scarcely ii'Frenehman, be he 'of What part be
may, whO. does not express approval of it. The
fact is,. the old grudge has never been extermi-
nated ; and it breaks out whenever we do any-
thing-to displease them.

IN politics, perhaps, more than almost anything
else, is this an age of shams ; and one Of the.
Conservative Monthlies,* we observe, has an. able
and seasonable paper in its current I'4ol*i
showing very- forcibly how . Much of sham there
is about the Ministerial Reform Bill,—oot only
as respects, the character and objects of the mea-
sure itself, but more especially in the conduct of
its authors and abettors. There was a time, it is
pointed out, and that not very long ago; when
Lord JOHN RUSSELL was all for " finality " on
this questiOn of Parliamentary Reform. But then
"he advocated 'finality,' not because it was neces-
sary to believe in it, but because it was (at that
particular time) necessary to proclaim it." -Mit
as time rolled on, circumstances changed. "As a
public man, he got infinitely less scrupulous when
it became clear to Lard JOHN RUSSELL—very
clear indeed—that he Might even be set aside in
the absence of some unreal agitation. To set .
aside him was to set aside the right of a family
to afflict a nation with their own nominee. Cer-
tain class interests would get to have no interest
at all, if Parliamentary Iteform could not be made
their monopoly." And hence he took it into his
head, that no one had any right to deal with the
• re-reform of Parliament but himself. Of course,
to get the Liberal party to think so too, he had
to throw his " finality " overboard, and take quite
another tack. And when this had come to pass,—
when, as our Constitutional contemporary con-
tinues, "Reform had become the monopoly of
what people, who have mouths to say hard
things, call the Liberal party,' a new measure of
subsistence had elite tip far Lord PITIF RUSSELL:
Here WAS a cry that could do hint service, just so
long as he liked to use it. He lied lifted up his
voice for finality' to serve one purpose. He
could lift it up against it to serve another."
Hence his rage and fury at a Conservative
Ministry having dared to interfere with his
monopoly ; and his virulent animosity against
Mr. DISRAELI, in particular, for having had the
audacity to introduce a Reforni Bill, in ap-Tosi-'
tioti td MM., in the House of Commons.
Now in all this there has been a part played
by Lord JOHN which may -well be .called a great
sham. And no' wonder that the Bill in which it'
has now resulted should itself partake of the
same character. Net'er *as there a measure that
bee_ kirAl its face more unmistakeably the ugly
aspect of a corrupt compromise. And with only
too much truth, therefore, has it to be said, that
" whatever may be thought of the Reform Bill,
however -far all classes may agree in its condem-
nation, it does seem that the into odection of lio
.measure, however &lea' lo it as a sham, has ever
*reeked so many public characters. People
*horn you meet put up a wild laugh if you
in-
dulge in any speculation as to what may have
become of the morality of some of our public
men. They are no nearer than we are in finding
it; and perhaps the!' are -itaotl ttie further off
because they do not care to seek it. The belief
is growing,
.and it has got to a great size, that
pUblie life is, after all, a trade. That certain
public men are no more particular than city men ;
and that when any of them get themselves grave
and, talk of morality, it is quite tittle to begin to
laugh." Nor does Lord fOrti# RUSSELL by any
means Altana alone in thus illustrating public life
as a trade, and demonstrating that " certain pub-
lic men are no more particular than City men."
There is Mr. GLADSTONE, it is shown, who
" thought. if anything Lord DERBY'S Reform Bill
went too far, whilst he now belongs to a Cabinet
Which P!:•opaiiiti goes a very great
"deal fUrther." Could there well be a greater
sham in political principle than this ? But then
it is Mr. GLADSTONE—it is one who, it has begun
to be popularly thought, is not in the roll of
common men. " Mr. GLADSTONE having a ready
tongue and a character for unassuming, unaffected
piety, people think that this sort of thing need
only to be explained to be admired. Mr. GLAD-
STONE held that Lord DERBY'S Leform Bill
would have been mere to his taste hid the fran-
chise been rather less extended. Bit then he is
quite prepared to like another that concedes the
franchise to a ledger p`tiblicir! 'There no change
'of 'Opinion tO talk about here. • Mr: GLADSTONE
never had an opini.orl on the ; cir-
cumstances haVe haineti to, make' it profitable
to iris to change." That is.te say,- le could not
be Chancellor of the Exchequer • ;Vith Lord
JOHN for his colleague without changing,—with-
out scattering all his previous convictions on the
subject-to the- windt—and his now having acted
accoredirigly tlaes; We cannot bitt COncii7 iii believ:
'oonstittite another great shain.-

But turn now to still another and a different
public character, who yet has affdrdel a simi-
lar political illustratiOni.-:- Mr. JGrizr BRIGHT,
who has u elinlbect to Etti inheritance" through
that same Mr. GLOSIONE: "He male poli-
tics a trade. He agitated a whole autumn
for wLat to suit his purpose he can abandon
now. This is the man vii.o *ttnt
, reund great tot ris tailing on all the leople to
• clan our for his bill, the coffee-house bil. The
bill that no one ever saw. This is the leveller
who in the face of thousands has ravel for his
, bill and nothing else;' who is the first :o tell the
people that he never had a bill; .that they had
- better take the instalment' ler the' will.ger.
nothing More.' Stich is the grb'atich it hick
. Mr. Bitu:NimAGE4 pkl HT 'has also bcorne,---7a
Charatter, however, which " as a mere elventuree
Suits him exactly. He is as free to agitee a# ever,
whilst the people are as far as eNter ft.& the con-
summation of :his agitation.- ,lie, zbi. not tell
them that it la, for hi 3 aggranclisemen and his
convenience that this bill should be sectioned;
but he will tell them that it is an iDtalment,'
and that they Will only get what the3ought to
have by continuing their faitiiin I'm." In
politicians, who can thus make shamsof them-
selves, for purposes of party or 'emme aggran-
disement, one can have neither hope .or trust.
-As to this sham of a Reform . Bill,why we
suppose it. will be politic; under allthe
cumstances, for even the. Conservtives to
deal with it, if they can, if. only rith
,the
view: of :endeavouring to make- it as Jittle
pernicious and perilous as. possible. is not .
a matter of ,paity or of class. intents.: 'As
the Saturrloy Review so forcibly puts The.
question whether the commonest pruince will
allow any class to be 'enfranchiSed umerous
enough to overpower the old constitueries,alto-
gether takes precedence of. the tiuestii which
class- had best be enfranchised.) It is juspossible
that the fancy franchises would have et in a
flood lOS strongly mixed with the 'srage of
ignorance and recklessness than Lord JoN's new
qualification will do ; but the importanpoint is.
how can we lessen the total force and mount of
the torrent with which the pipes, pups, and
Passages, of the, Constitution are to a over,.

• "Constitutional Press Magazine" for Ap.

1W BRITISH AND IRISH MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.]

UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE IN SAVOY

AND NICE.

TURIN, April. 6.

The Opinione of to-day states that in eight or
ten days the inhabitants of Savoy and Nice will
vote by universal suffrage on the question of
annexation to France.

DEGRADATION OF GENERAL ORTEGA.
M.thRID; April 5.

The official Gazette publiShes ri decree degrad-
ing General Ortega: Elis has been captured by
the Alcalde of Vinaroz. 'FranciniHit& prevails

everywhere.

THE NECESSITY OF GEII-I‘fANI.

The Times has a leader on the necessity of
German unity, the absence of which places the
great Teutonic race in perpetual alarm for its
liberties by a nation not more numerous than
itself. The cause of this is to be found in the fact
that the French are a nation, the Germans only
an aggregate of confederated states. The emer-
gency presses, 4fici Gerniaiiy is called upon to
make its choice between the institutions that so
often have ruined, and the unity and efficiency by
which alone it can be saved.