The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-08-30 00:00:00

THE fate of Spain, and the future 'of Italy, are
still—matters of earnest solicitude _ throughout
Christendom. The former has won for herself the
enduring ad.miiatipn of the world by ,her early
enterprise and chivalry. The latter is associated
with Christianity in every land, and if her influ-
‘erices be not Catholic in reality, they are thought
• nations, thus esteemed and ieveredi if

y by a few in each civilised community, have a
)ustittency. on whose hearty sympathies acid
n,rinlia watchfulness they can rely at all times.

;pain has her millions who delight in the inesti-
sable virtues of,:her people ; and Rome has its
,ens,of
imi!liOns who sigh for her deliverance, and
he regeneration of the Latin race. Trifling with
tates which command the moral respect and reli-
tion, and who can call around them large
nd. powerful elements of resistance, if nothing
sore, is impolitic and dangerous in the last degree.
'ho advanced and free peoples of the world
re those who feel Spain's misfortunes and degra-
Ilion, and Italy's fallen and desperate condition
They alone can appreciate the high
alts of the Spanish character, and understand the
and injustice which the Italians groan
_ . _

DIIS venera'

ne most

'fanny

idependent con-
rpqr.nred. And

a to believe that the friends of one are,pr

ared to see her

hurled back fully a century in

gious rights, or those of the
Aber to see their idol torn asunder by the foreign-
3rs who have dared to invade her soil on every

mut;
Europe, and America too, entertain high hopes,
and far loftier aspirations in both instances. We
all desire to see Spain as free as any other consti-
tutional country, and Italy as independent. and
.•

united as the head and home of any other Catholic
Church. Political intriguing may retard the con-
summation of this moral design, but the promise
of a glorious triumph may be found in the petty
defeats which the cause of civil and religious
liberty has experienced within the last ten years..
You may resist a universal will for a short season,
but a world-wide prayer and fixed determination will
revel in triumph in their turn. Here it may be said
that it is not intended to blot out Spain and Italy
from the map of Europe. Why, then, suffer the
former to be trampled in the dust by the tyrant
O'DONNELL, and the latter to be invaded by Aus-
trian woman-floggers, or any other foreigners ?
Spain is an integral part of that Constitutionalism
which we, 'and every free country, are bound to
conserve. Italy is an integral portion of the

uperstructure, which, much as we
teachings, cannot be dispensed with.

eeds far less earnestness in its dissem-

..e reiterate what must be manifest to
nat neither of those States can be left in the
--- are in at this moment, without

ion, but

r-
leading to events which must prove most injurious
to the cause of civil and religious freedom.
The O'Donnellisms of overthrowing Parliaments,
—suppressing the national Press of a Constitu.
tional people,--seizing upon the public ex-chequer,
and applying millions of the. State's treasures, as a
few armed reactionists may think proper,—
shooting, hanging, and transporting suspected
friends, doubtful supporters, and pour wretches
doomed to suffer for examples sake--belong to the

e of the dark a

Such terrible atrocities

have no constituency,—command no respect
in these days, but, on the contrary, they
draw down upon £heir authors heads
the bitter reprobation of mankind. The
O'Dorni ELL massacres have done this, and
Austria's government of the Legations has excited
a still more deadly hatred of military despotism.

With these irrefragable facts before us, we may
is doing
?
venture to ask Lord CLARENDON what he
with respect to the affairs of Spain and Italy . We
have heard the noble Earl's statesmanship very
highly lauded in Liverpool on the Monte Videan
Loan question. But does our Foreign Secretary
advocate the lending of money to Austria to make
railways to increase the military strength she
directs against Italy, and the recognition of an
O'DONNELL Envoy at the court of an outraged Con-
stitutional ally ? What part is the noble Lord
going to play in these complexities ? We are
all heavy debtors to adversity, and prolonged
misery will add to the power of those who are
downtrodden to-day. Constitutional Spain will
rise again, and Rome will recover her usurped
dominions, provided Lord CLARENDON is the
statesman we hear he is. But, in the
meantime, the Spanish Bondholder will be
asking O'DONNELL for the dividends falling due,
and the public will be anxious to know whether
the Foreign Office will advocate the rights of the
British creditors of Spain, with the same impor-
tunity and pertinacity it displayed towards the
Monte Videan defaulters. O'DONNELL found
37,000,0000 reals in the Spanish Treasury, and it
is to be hoped, that the claims of foreign credi-
tors were provided for before the wages of par-
tisan reactionists were recognised and paid. We
must ere long see, however, how Lord CLAREN-
DON will deal with this strange entanglement of
Constitutional interests, and the religious sympa-
thies of the Universe.
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THE premeditated attack made on the New
Insurance Companies, appears destined to do its
fun mna snrc of preconcorted mischief to the
provident classes, and the cause of frugality. The
London Times led the onslaught on the general
body, and the Daily News, We deeply regret to say,
has commenced an assault on individual members
of the doomed family. The public must not, how-
ever, suffer their confidence to be shaken by mere
assertion, and under an Editorial vapouring.
are no friends of the present system of life
assurance. We have repeatedly stated our convic
tion that the principle upon which it is based is
that we
most fallacious. It cannot, then, be said,
have any direct interest in advocating the cause of
the new companies The mode by which all offices
calculate their risks would admit of life being
insured for one-half of the premiums now charged,
provided they could get lives enough on their
books. Their risk bears no definable or known
proportion to their liabilities, and, consequ
panies
ently,
we are quite safe in advocating those com
which offer the lowest tables of premiums
and in urging all those who wish to insure
office which holds out the
to go to the
lowest terms. We give this advice all the more
freely, because we know that, while it is impossible
to calculate the periods at which liabilities will
accrue, it is quite practicable to raise, and so
adjust an income as to meet all engagements as
they fall due.
We will take the case on which the Daily News
has lavished so much undisguised virulence, to
illustrate our assertions. Our cotemporary selected
the Trafalgar Insurance Company for his anirnad-