The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-04-02 00:00:00

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veritable reason. " They have sold themselves
to the Manchester party." It was their only
chance. They could alone sustain themselves by
such a bargain and sale. And the Treaty and
the Budget were framed in accordance therewith.
The Reform Bill was of itself an unavoidable
necessity : a necessary evil, of their own creation,
it is true, but, one that they had found they.
could not escape from incurring as a means to an
end—and that end their seizure of office. • And
if their Reform Bill be not altogether so thoroughly
Manchester in its character as it might have
been, its shortcomings in that respect. are;
compensated for in the other Manchester measures..
But with regard to the Treaty more particularly,
—the Budget be it remembered, emanating from
that, contract,—what so necessary, what so
indis
pensable, as that a Manchester man should be,
employed to negotiate it ? It was a clever con-
ception, under the circumstances, even if it ive4
not, a positive condition of the bargain. lt was:
all very well for the noble lord we have alluded
to wishing "earnestly to enjoin upon the Govern-
ment
that they should, for the future, employ, in
such negotiations, skilled and experienced diplo-
matists ;" for although Mr. COBDEN may be a
very smart man in his way—may know a good
deal about cotton and calico, and hold an eminent.
position in the Manchester school of
,politics,; and
possess considerable popular influence among
multitudes of the people, vet certainly "'his
previous training was not, of a character to qualify
him to'ineet the astute and experienced diploi.
matist with whom he had to cope ; and if a
proper negotiator had been selected, then this
country would not have been called upon
to make such extensive concessions without.
obtaining equivalents." There can be no ques-
tion, we think, of this. And probably. no. .one
was more sensible of it, from the first, than
the Prime Minister himself, who was reminded,
on the occasion we refer to, of some advice .he
gave seventeen years ago, when Lord ASFIBURTON.:,
was about to be dispatched to the United States!,
to negotiate a Treaty with the Government at
Washington. With reference to that procedure,
Lord PALMERSTON said-L." He knew that some
persons imagined that in negotiations a plain,,
simple, straightforward man would do just as'
well as the Most
.experienced and skilful diplo-
matist ; but the House might depend upon it that
the same rule held good in negotiation as in any
other employment of the intellectual faculties,
and that—cceteris paribus—a man who had some
acquaintance with diplomacy would have some
advantage over the man who had none. Wei..
the Government driven by any necessity to the ;
appointment of an inexperienced negotiator—
had they no other to select ?" Aluch more appli,.
cable would such an objection as that have been
to Mr. COBDEN, than it was to Lord ASHBURTON
for not only had the latter a correct knowledge
of the question, and an intimate acquaintance
with the parties with whom he had to deal,
but there was none of the astuteness, or the
artifice, to be . encountered at Washington, for
which Lours NAPOLEON is so famous. But then
Manchester had to be consulted and propitiated ;
and the "inexperienced negotiator" being a
Manchester man, it was all right. Had the
general interests of the country been consulted, a
" skilful diplomatist" would doubtless have been
.
considered indispensable; but since it was the
interests of Manchester that were principally-
concerned—who so fit as Mr. COBDEN? And of
this great question of the Treaty, so of the other
three—of the Budget, the annexation of Savoy,
and the Reform Bill,—they all partake of thei
same calico character—they all involve the !tame
peddling principles of policy ; and they will
combine to create a formidable and fearful future,
difficulty for this kingdom, which it will baffle
the wisest and best of our statesmen to meet and
overcome.

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ROYAL COMPLIMENT TO
MARSHAL O'DONNEL AND THF, ARMS

MADRID, March 30:
The Queen has expressed her satisfactionlo,--,
the bravery and loyalty of Marshal OTonll'el'
and the whole army. Marshal O'Donnel Will
shortly arrive here.

ELECTION OF DEPUTIES IN SAVOY.
PARIS, March 31.
The Paris newspapers publish a telegram
dated Chambery, Mareh 31, according to which "
the elections of deputies in the provinces claimed
by Switzerland, have resulted in the return of
five partisans of France, and one of Switzerland.

SWISS DEMONSTRATIONS..
On Thursday some persons from Geneva madg. "
a menacing demonstration at Thonon, and hoisted.:
the Swiss flag. A steamer with armed people
left, on Friday, for Thonon: The Paine states
that the Savoyards, being collected in some force
on the shore of the Lake of Geneva, have'enericen.
tically repulsed the 300 persons from Gene'c'a,
who had arrived in a steamer with the intentwo:
of attacking Chablais and Faucigny.

RUMOUR CONTRADICTED.
The same paper gives a denial to the news
received in Paris concerning the entry of the'
Neapolitan troops into the Papal States.

THE FRENCH FUNDS.
PARIS, March 31. •
3.30 P.M.—The Bourse has again been agitated,
but the fluctuations have been unimportant.
Rentes opened at 69f 35c, and closed at 69f 15c,
or au eigth below the official closing quotation of
yesterday.