The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-03-22 00:00:00

assured, " passed:4ff quietly." •All was prepared
for the occasion, and with the military and the
police together, in every direction, the people
• knew how necessary, it was that they should
behave themselves. Scarcely had the occasion
passed away; however,' than bills headed'!" Viva
Emmanuele " were scattered along the streets ;
and; the sentiment thus inspired was, taken,_ up
and reiterated by popular acclamation,—a senti7,
mein; be it remembered, which has both a posit'
tive and'a negative meaning,--positive, in that it
Pronounces a benison en', the King of Sardinia,
and the cause of Italian liberty with whiehhis
name is associated; and negative, as denying
their attachment to the corrupt and arbitrary
gttvernanee under which they-now live. There,
can be no. doubt .that the great body of the
Sovereign Pontiff's subjects, both in the city of
RBine `and 'elsewhere, have all the feeling.' of
" yive Etmnanuele" warmly: in their hearts, and
°°l3' Want the opportunity of Proclaiming it:
lustily with their voices.
Nice would seem to be,, .if anything,: more
determined than Savoy, to resist its annexation
toFranoc,-._according to its..ability, that is ; for
it has every,. slighter 'means of. actual resistance
than its neighbour.. ',Both, be it• remembered, are
Provinces of Sardinia; having been 'secured to that,
kingdom -by treatieS AO 'which the Great Powers'
of Europe, whom ...wishes are now 'to he set at
, 'Olt, were parties., Nice is (not half. the,:isizp
of Savoy, though its position, bounded as it is Lt'
the Maritime Alps, the territories of Genoa, and
the 'Mediterranean, is equally • important. -.A
delegate of the municipality' of. Nice has been at
urging the Sardinian, Government to
prevent its severance from the kingdom of Victor
Emmanuel,—but of 'course in vain. The decree
of Louis Napoleon has 'gone .forth, and Nice, as
well as Savoy, must henceforth submit to, his
Imperial yoke.'
It
can occasion no su'prise to find it stated',
With reference to the London Money Market, in
Yesterday's reports; that the English funds 'con-
tinued to be unfavourably influenced by the
impression produced on all ~minds, as to the,
character of proceedings by which France has 1
aFcluired 'Savoy, and' that' there had' 'been no
envery 'from , the decline of the, day before.
.'hose proceedings are, indeed of an alarming
enaracter; and none know-this better than the
nionied:nten Of the city of London.
,•I
The Repert of the Committee of the ,Lords on
Church-rates has been printed. It reiterates the'
°Pinion, that whilst the entire abolition of those
rates is opposed to the general. feeling of Church-
men, and is not universally called for even by the
Aaenters of various denominations, more especi-
411Y not by the Wesleyan Methodists, such aboli-
tion would in a great number of :parishes be
attended with very serious. and prejudicial eonse,
luences; by' restricting the existing means for the
Isaintenance and the repair of the Parish church,
and otherwise hindering.the ministrations of the
Church. The'expediency of altering the law is,
however,' adinitted,—princiPallY,so as to eXorie-
rate-all who, as Dissenters, desire toile exempted;
such exemption to : disqualify them for taking
pall. in any vestry-meeting; for acting as church-
'wardens, or for holding any seat in the parish
church.
The Times, -remarking upon the statistical
returns relating to our commercial' intercourse
\kith France,—which, as we all knoWand regret
i 8
•by no ,means what. it ought, to,. be,-!--only too
tifql;that those returns " illustrate the °Kees-
aiiiiety, of the French to' elo4ithout us as:
nch.ss possible., Her forty; millions of people;
With a climate and soil very similar to our own;
might find iit'ansvver'their:purpoSe,7l,haireor
naarkeiki:l)/e,4ana6iinpetiiingoyAstettqt
they, and. they have some points, of, superiority,
over ' us." And therefore, the .question is most.
reasonably and opportunely asked;' "Why should
foot these two nations be the best friends and
coo:trades in the world?."—Since there gu.n be no,
;doubt whatever that " we 'might find one another
serviceable in' a thousand 'ways, by the simple
,expedient -of . dividing labour." Now, there
y be no reason why France and England
,not be the best friends and comrades
litithe world," but there, is a reason why they.
are not, and why they cannot. be---until. that
'which it involves is materially changed.. The
question is.not only a commereial, but a Foproal
fone,—and the latter in aninfinitely higher degree.
than the former,: For the French and English to be
". the best friends and comrades in the world," there
auust he, some greater congeniality than there is
gt,t present in' the politicalinstitutions.andor which
t.lley 'respectively live.' People who live under
free institutions like those of ,England can never
hay° much fellow-feelings With those who are con-
tent tOliveunder a system of despotism, such •as
140,W exists in France,—they can never hope,
paced in such 'different circumstances, :to be veil-
'much friends and comrades at all, let alone "the
'best xu the world." a:beginning
is to be earnestly made 'to promote a greater coin-
nercial intercourse between France and England
it 'must be 'done, not as her Majesty's Ministers
have been induced to enter into "it;-that is, by
accepting an " inducenienforeertain tariff advanT
lts.ges;? as a propitiation.for ambitious and aggres-
t* glesigns,on the part of him that offers it--
nut upon a broad, open, and' intelligible principle
of free interchange and liberal reciprocation.
The Morning Herald, continuing to remonstrate
strongly against the. Ministeriul Reform.' Rill;
e
does not deny the desirableness. of a, certain xten-
si°n tbe franchise, but insists that it should be
for the pnrisose of giving the intelligence -of the
country a voice in Political discussions. Yet: Lord
iOll-4 Russell, it, is shown, has quite ignored any
such purpose as this, by excluding, the £2O lodger
franchise, and adopting
_that of the £6 rental in
*.vident submission to the -demands Of Mr. Bright.
h, is inconceivable," adds our consistent •Con-
7_rvative coutenaperary, "that such obvious
4ninstice as thii will be allowed,' and that 'the
au)* repetitions of ,'a demagogue .on behalf of a
class' who are without •any special merit of their
should shut out the claims of men who are
lilinany respects their betters, and in nowt their
infiniers. Why, is it to be assumed that the DAY
waY of remedying an unfaireystem of represent-
ation is by giving thelAeooral privilege' to men
14,4), With a. low gnalifieation fin' thought and
QPillion, pay a minimum of rent for a house,
!bile Others, with higher moral and material
ses,excluded?' Multiply yaps' if you will,
but multi* .qualifications as. well, in ,or r"
'Preserve a safe balance, and do justice to the prin-
ciple of. the English electoral system;"--Hwhieh is
the very thing, we say, thit Lord ,Tohn Russell's
new Reform Bill most
By telegram from griev4nslp fails to do.
Queenstown, we have two
418Y6' later news, frlcal :the United States, frcivOght
by
the
Edijiblurgiii whiela touched at that port,
having left NeWit:cir'k ou111) /oth
There,
is still no further iuformaticin relAtive to the loss ,
**the Hungarian, but the opinion prevails at
Aalfax that she must have struck about midnight,
the watch, as well as the paisengers, were
f..l,sir beds, and thus have perished. The
geeconnte f,iopi Texas represent the state of things
e 44 the gel4pap frontier to be horrible in the
!Xtrems;

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LoRD PAtatEnsToN's sPeeeh against the Ballot,
Tuesday night, was certainly a very,lmmour-
"s One, and might well elicit the laughter,
along
:with the cheers, of the House—as it aid.,
apparently, with no ordinary degree of heart-
Rtees. from both sides. The Ballot-mongers them-
seives, .however, one might have thought, could
Well have spared some of their laughter, since
in the greater part of what he said the Premier
was, with a most, unsparing hand, throwing
ridicule upon their favourite nostrum—and spare
it, or some of it, they probably 'did, as long as
they could; but when' the disparager and
denouncer of that great political panacea declared,
that he would not repeat the speeches he had
made against it on former'occasions, but would
refer
fibers who wished to become
acquainted with itiis arguments, to the pages of
ZlOnsard, that their loud and hearty laughter,
'el:4l.leintlY with that a the rost of the House,
411ould at once have been provoked, was not only
'°-).le of the -most natural things in the world, but
° whichit would never have been possible for
nl'inan. nature to have resisted. Lord PALMER
S(3.IC, of all the members of the House, to refer
to his past 'speeches in Hansard ! if ever
there.vitaa•-a.remarkable .record of political tergi-
versation, surely one.. is to be found there, in
very
.speeches of the
pre'sent -Premier !
Ne. this question_ of: the Ballot, he way have

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