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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-03-10 00:00:00

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The Council hereby give Notice, that a MEETING will take
place in the Debating Room, on Thursday next, the 10th instant, at
Eight o'clock p.m., for the purpose of discussing the Government
litcform Dill. Members are invited to attend, and will be at liberty
to introduce one friend.

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THURSDAY,

MARCH 10, 1859

THE DAY'S NEWS.
DEFEAT OF THE GOVERNMENT.
As the Period aproaches for the second reading 1
of the Government Reform Bill, the policy intended
to be pursued
developed. byu the Opposition becomes more fully
i
the House of Commons, yesterday,
Russell
Lord John gave notice, that on the
motion for second reading he should
move an amendment,
he should lay on the tableheprecise terms of which
of the house to-day. Mr.
Walpole moved the second reading of the Govern-
ment Church Rate Bill, upon which Sir J. Trelaw-
ney moved an amendment, that it be read a second
A
time, " that day six months:,
mrlong debate ensued,
in which Mr. Hardcastle, Estcourt, Sir
George Grey, Sir John Pacingie S. R. Bethel,
Mr. Drummond, Mr. Ball, and Mnr' Sir
Lowe took part.
On a division, the amendment was carried by a vote
of 254 to 171, thus defeating the
majority of EIGHTY-THREE. government by a
itcform meetings continue to be held, and others
announced. The whole country appears on the
in
Last night there was a tremendous demonstration.eve.
The doors of the Birmingham Town-hall were besieged
long before the hour announced for the opening of
the meeting, and the reception that greeted Mr.
Bright was most enthusiastic. When he rose to
address the meeting, the cheering is reported to have
lasted for five minutes. We have elsewhere given a
full outline of his address. A reform meeting is to
be held in Chester to-day. A very important meet-
ing was held in Lambeth, London, on Tuesday,
at which the two members of the borough were
present and addressed those assembled. Mr.
Roupel, one of them said, " T'. ;,ail WI was not worth

the slightest support, for the great question of
reform was the extension 'of the franchise ; in fact,
it was the greatest mockery that could be introduced,
for it extended the franchise to men of legal
professions—attorneys, clergymen, schoolmasters,
and others —but they had the vote at present."
A meeting has been held at Bedford, at which the
following resolution was unanimously adopted :
" That this meeting has heard with great satisfaction
that it is the intention of Lord John Russell to move
an amendment upon the motion for the second read-
ing of the Government Reform Billthat the House
of Commons do not assent to the disfranchisement
of those electors who now possess county votes in
respect of property situated in boroughs, or to the
proposition that the non-resident proprietors of
freeholds in boroughs should vote in respect
of them for the election of borough members."
A large meeting was held, yesterday, at St.
Martin's Hall, Westminster, for the purpose of con-
sidering the provisions and pronouncing' an opinion
upOn the government reform bill. The meeting was
called " at 12 for 1, exact time," at which. hour the
body of the hall was full. Sir De Lacy Evans and
Sir John Villiers Shelley, Bart., the members for
Westminster, were present. A resolution con-
demning the measure was proposed, to which an
addition was moved in favour of manhood suffrage,
and the combined resolution was carried, after a
somewhat tumultuous altercation. A resolution in
support of Mr. Bright's bill, in addition, was also
made, inviting him to support the manhood prin-
ciple. The members for Westminster both addressed
the meeting.
The Council meeting, yesterday, was long, but not
very important in its results. The motion of Mr.
Farnworth, "To rescind the resolution for the ap-
pointment of a superintendent of markets," was
carried. On the proceedings of the Water Com-
mittee it was decided that the recommendation to
supply the town with Rivington water only, from
one month from this date, should not be carried into
effect. The Council got through the whole of their
business.

The news from the Continent this morning adds
nothing to what was previously known. The Paris
correspondent of the Times describes the note
in the Moniteur, on the armaments, as a wilful
mis-statement. It was, he says, submitted to the
Emperor about midnight on Friday. His Majesty
was informed it was merely a reproduction in sub-
stance of his speech from the Throne, and having
read a few lines at the beginning, and the last para-
graph, he allowed it to pass. The note, however
ambiguous as it is, was inconsistent with the hopes
of a general war, and the position of Prince Napo-
leon in the cabinet became untenable. The prospects
of the war party, so far as France is concerned, do
not look very bright, thanks to the force of
public opinion in this country, and the spirit
manifested abroad. The Paris correspondent of the
Herald says : " Although the confirmation by the
Moniteur of the resignation of Prince Napoleon has
naturally raised high the hopes of the friends of
peace, some alarm has been created by an article
which appears in the Constitutionnel this morning
in a semi-official form, and under the signature of
M. Amedee Renee, informing the world that they
have been greatly mistaken if they suppose from
the article in question that any change has taken
place in the policy of the French Government. M.
Renee assures us that matters stand exactly as they
did before. Now, although the Moniteur has ex-
pressly stated that the articles in the papers do not
deserve the importance attached to them abroad, yet,
in the political world an article signed by M. Renee,
an announcement endorsed by M. Boniface, still
carry a certain weight with them, and the great
majority of political men, official and non-official,
are of opinion that the declaration in the Moniteur
on Saturday means no more than is asserted by M.
Renee.

The Turin correspondent of the Herald says that
the note in the Moniteur has fallen like a thunder-
bolt on the court and ministry. The result of the
pacific declaration of France may be to hasten a con-
flict with Austria even single handed.

THE WAR'S ALARM SUBSIDING.
THE French Emperor having declared that he has
no idea of war—that he never had, and does not
wish to have, and a great deal more to the same
effect—the alarm has naturally begun to subside.

This is the result of such a declaration which cer-

tainly tells a tale against its Imperial author ; for the

inference is irresistible, that if pacific assurances
from such a quarter can calm the fears of Europe,

menaces in the same quarter must have had the
effect of exciting them. But never mind. Louis

NAPOLEON has once more been subdued by the force
of public opinion. His Moniteur, not unnaturally,
gives it quite another complexion—even denying that
he had ever been making warlike preparations. "It
is quite absurd," says the Imperial organ, " to repre-
sent the Emperor as pushing on war, and to cast on
him alone the responsibility of having aroused
uneasiness, and of having caused warlike prepara-

tions in Europe. The Emperor is now examining
the various reasons of the present complications, but
this must not be regarded as any provocation of war
on his part. Besides, to examine these questions is
to meet them in a diplomatic way, and nothing
authorises the belief that the issue will not be
favourable to the consolidation of peace." All which
is very ingenious, no doubt ; but it is at the same
time very dissembling, and very dishonest. How-
ever, if it is to be peace, let us take it as it is, and be
thankful.

The circular of Count BuoL to the German Courts,
a translation of which has got into circulation this
week, shews that Austria counted very confidently
on their co-operation, in the event of an open conflict
with France and Sardinia. " The language of the
German statesman," it declares, "as well as of the
Press, has favoured to a large extent, the impression
that Germany would imagine itself menaced as a
united Power, if Austria, by an unjust attack against
her possessions in Italy, should find herself called
upon to take up arms against one of the greatest
military Powers of Europe. The convictions of all
Germany have been bound together in an energetic
protest against the return of the times of the Rhine
Confederation. With an unanimity which commands
respect, opinion has declared that should the rupture
of the public law of Europe menace a German Power,
be it in the first rank or on a territory extra-German,
all its allies ought to make common cause with it, in
order to maintain peace by the moral force of so
powerful an union ; and if, in spite of every attempt,
this result should not be obtained, to protect in com-
mon the possessions of a member of the Confederation
attacked, as well as the sanctity of treaties, and thus
to preserve at the same time the honour, the dignity,
the safety, and the power of United Germany." This
is making the cause of Austria certainly a very Ger-
man one. But then, just in that proportion are
her Italian claims the less feasible. Austria,
it is true, has rights in Italy ; but they are
anomalous if her character is to be thoroughly
that of a German Power. At the same time, so long
as those rights are legitimately hers, and are recog-
nised as such by the law of nations, as well as
guaranteed by treaties, if she looks not beyond them
in any authority she may assert, neither France nor
Sardinia can have any rightful business to interfere.
" We,"—that is the Cabinet of Vienna, says the
circular again—" cannot disguise the faet that, so
long as the policy of Sardinia shall preserve its
nhtallchbaasraecittesr, calculations contrary t
ono the law
revolution
of
and nations,
w a
war,
panredses
war presents itself as the possible consequence of our
firm resolution to against defend •
nst every attack
the rights of Austria
in Italy, such as they
have been constituted by treaties." And surely