Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-07-18 00:00:00

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SATURDAY, JULY 18, 1859.

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THE DAY'S NEWS.
On Saturday, a grand banquet was given to the
late ministrY, at the Merchant Tailors' Hall, London.
-The attendance was numerous, and everything passed
off welli- Speeches were delivered by Lord Derby,
Mr. Disraeli, and Lord Malmesbnry. The late pre-
mier, in the course of his remarks, said that though
they 4ere defeated; they were not dispersed; and
after paying wwell-dtv.erved.etilogy on her Majegty,
Who is " ever disposed to rouxd..with confidence any
minister who ifr:serving her,' he proctededito enlarge
upon the late war on, the--Conthymt,_ stated ~the
TJasons whiat'they had. lept in View When they de-
rtruned to maintain a strict neutrality, slOolicied
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rd Mainlesbury, and entered into some inquiry re-
-13.p ectin,„___ff the conduct of the belligerent parties. The

onclusion of TAace as at present understood byliin;
eads him to believe that affairs are now more critical
and moredangerous 'than anything which existed
before. The 'war was commenced on insufficient.
grounds.; 'turd without sufficient cause. HiS lordship
then entered into some - explanations as ;to his
opinleri what Would' be the result to` Italy, and lie.
aiered that one inevitable result will be that all
tliosq friends -of liberty, whether, of liberty ,in crews
or moderation, will be doubly disappointed at, the
proceedings of the allies. Mr.. Disraeli delivered an
eloquent address, chiefly devoted to an analysatio. tr_of.
cisere m the,HouseOf Commons, and
said that the appeal made to the country by„Lord Derby
Was completely warranted.—Lord Malmesbury de-
fended liras& from the attacks which - had
been made .• on him, evidencing, as a complete
vindication—of his views; that although the
last Ministry had been eipelled from Office, Lord
Palmerstori ,bad assured the..countri that he woad
fellow the course of the. Derby• Ministry as respectS
neutrality, After _cautioning_England against-.the-absurdity 4: meddling with Italian politics, the
noble lord, resumed his :seat, rind the proceedings
i closed.. _ _ •
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The cerl9lusion of the:War on the Continent has,
of course, caused general satisfaction; but in Paris,
it is—aiireita,The public in that city' are :very much
itimoye# gt the way in which the Emperor Napoleon
has "teinunated his Italian campaign.- Acedrding to
the correspondent of the Times, the feeling of morti-
fication increases instead of diminishes ; it is—e-feff
stronger among women than inen. "So puzzled
are , people to, account. for a denouement so much
Out. of proportion' with the design, that the
strangest motives are assigned' for it. They
attribute—it to some - second projected family
alliance between the IMperial family of France and
one of the Italian Sovereigns. The writer of a letter
from Berne, of the- 14th, published in the F

'resse, men

dons that he heard the Duchess of Parma, say, on thE
lath, -be,fore the peace was signed, that she should be

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m _Parma, and in possession' of her crown, before six
Weekswere oyer. If M. Cavourhii.S any-feeling left., how
keen intst-be his sense of humiliation, and how bitter
his remorse. He 'destroyed with his own build the
liberties of hisP,cbnntry:'ias the preliminary step to
her .political humiliation - and her ' independence
now actually depends on the will of her ally.' is.
reported that FlorenCe and ,other parts of Tuscany
have protested against the peace, and that the Pope
has reffisealbe ',honorary Presidency' of the Italian
Confederation. In a word, Italy, to liberate• and
organize which the war wis undertaken, 'promises'
to •be ' soon in a; worse State of. confusion than ever."
' The correspondent of -the Globe says that,;vvith-the
resignation. of. Count 'Cavour, all ,specubition must
pause. Nothing
.can be foretold concerning
until. Parlianient meets oncemore at Turin, or possibly
at llilan.

The .Saturday _Revelv is very inthgnant at Louis
Napoleon's new movements. The .end of the Italian
crusade is, it
,says, perfectly suited to the beginning,
and both are worthy of their author. "It was a
mas4rpiece.,of consistency to. terminate a lawless
war by a piratical peaCe,, and to illarm established
qoYernments by the same act of treachery which

cation of :vanity,
~or • e!'ccen the demonstration ) of
an 'important truth could be weighed in the balance
,
against an imminent danger to Europe, the
steady opponents of Bonapartist aggression might
console themSelVes by the absolute triumph of . all
their :doctrines and predictions. The Liberals and
pe,cemongers who applanded the attack ~of a despot
• on an unoffendin,g'neighbour, are now forced to admit
that in this instance at least, good has not come out
of deliberate`eVfi. As some of {he advoCateS of the
Italian war complain with pathetiosimplicity, it was
in vain -that, in defiance -of all evidence and probabi-
lity, they defended the disinterested policy of France.
The author of the war has been thus far successful
beyond, his most • sanguine hopes, and he has left
Italy less free than he found her, and not more united
or independent."
The Paris Univers, the organ of the Ultramontan6
*man Catholic body in France, particularly rejoices
iii the arrangemerit•at •Villafranca, from the fadt eat
Lombardy WaS therebY-transferred froth one monarch
to another, without_ the slightest semblance of-a re-
. cognition of any rights on, the part of the divh: lgar
herd of people. The Empeior bf Austria " gave up
:as a King what he had lost as, a King, and the
French Emperor, in gi4ino Leinbardy to Piedmont,
also gave. ,a.wv ats,a, Kifig;what he had gained as a
King. trlitLs is- entire accordance with pure
Monarchical tradition.: No. word of any.- right of
Lombardy to give away, herself, such as is invoked
by M. Cavour." But Will this arrangement be ac-
-repted by the Italian ' Stales.- "'Mani- far-seeing
'politicians expect to see a
.state of siege proclaimed
all over Italy before another we?k, and order main-
tained by French and Austrian troops conjointly.
Meantime there are troubles.at Flor.en6e;', where the
French Emperor's -proclamation has been spat upon
and defiled.

A despatch from Vienna states that the rEmperorrof
Austria has intimated-that reforms shall be madliii
the public law and administration. , It is now :eight
. • .
years since the Eniperor promised to give his sub-
jects provisional statutes and various other organic
Taws, but until now the council of the ,V_iMperor has
not managed to get beyond the "yreparatoyy work."
A telegrani from-Turin under date 15th inst., nine
p.m., states that Turin was illuminated, and_ that the
King and' the Emperor preSentecl themselves several
times on the balcony of the Royal Palace. rhe
Emperor) was to leave at siiF, in the raorniug;for;Sukd
The local news thiS morning is meagre_ and
,unim4
portant,; ` not' 6allingo for any particUlar
comment thereon.

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