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FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 1359

• .
THE DAY'S NEWS

TITERE was not much business of importance trans-
acted in the House of Commons last night, there
Sven o'clock. Sir G. C.

t out abou

Lewis stated that the Government had refused to be
an arbitrator between the master builders and the
workmen. Some discussion took place on the order
for the third reading of the Charitable Trusts Act
Continuance Bill. Mr. Newdegate moved tbat it be
read a third time that day three months, but this
was negatived by a vote of 70 to 47. The Divorce
Courts' Bill passed through committee, with one or
two minor alterations, and-was read a third time and
passed.

In the Continental news to-day there are several
natters calling for particular attention.- It would
wear- from our Turin advices that a very large

;e will remain at Venetia during the

mation of the people of Tuscany has been
published. It states that the Government had re-

ceived authoritive encouragement for the course it
was pursuing, and trusts that the elections will offer
the Emperor Napoleon a valid reason for accomplish-
ing his
.benevOlent intentions towards Italy. The
document concludes as follows :—" Europe desires
peace ; but Europe will not have peace if the legiti-
Mate'opinions of the Italians, calmly manoinced,b,
not respected."

The idea of a Confederation of the Italian States
does not meet with much favour, either in England

The Morning Post of yesterday, in
tended division of the Italian

to prom

after giving a st",

- ..tastical
.urn of their population, proceeds to show what
weight each province
the ce-would illd3";idually yield.
says Post,
one of the States
comparatively insignificant as regards Italy, yet with
overwhelming
of t
isformingpowerp
aan:kre:,istless influence, from the
fact of
.an Empire with forty
millions of subjects, , and an armed force of six
hundred thousand men. Then there are two States
nearly equal t,
other in. tl% power—one in the north and the
e south of Italy ;, and these two States,
bee-414ft 'the only two important Italian States, would
e'4ltl".t an unceasing antagonism with the view of
ob,ftining. influence. There would be three States in
I'Ventral Italy—the_ three Duchigs--Which it would

Tfiere is first,"

stopped by order of the Russian Government, iti con-
sequence of the political complications of the times.
The St. Petersburg advices state that the contractors
have now been authorised to proceed. It is, there-
fore, probable that the loan will be announced in
London within a fortnight.
The Naples correspondent of the Times says that
circulars have been sent to the bishops and civil
authorities, directing them to use all their influence
to induce the people to sign petitions against the
Italian Confederation, as proposed by the two Em-
perors. The writer adds—" The Neapolitan Govern-
ment was creating great disappointment, because,
while affecting to do something, it does nothing."
Some of the metropolitan builders' yards, yester-
day morning, were able to proceed with their work
to a certain extent, a large number of men having
arrived from the country. We observe that -the
master builders publish their manifesto in the lead-
ing London journals of yesterday.
Eligland is becoming a disgrace among nationg,
in one respect at least. There is hardly a day passes
our head that we are not called upon to record the
particulars of some fearful murder, or other shocking
tragedy. To-day we report two additional murders.
At Luton, Herefordshire, a man named Castle and
his wife had been estranged through the brutality
of the husband. On his promising amendment, and
coming to the place where she remained, she
prnrniqPri to gn blink Zvi
)s for advertise- 1 murdered her on t

ie road home, by cutting her
throat with a razor. At •D ursley, in Gloucestei-
shire, a man named Rutter, and' his wife, had led
a very unhappy life, and on Saturday night
last they appeared to have quarrelled at a public-
house where they had both been drinking. The man
left his wife carousing with some of her boon compa-
nions, and proceeded homewards. From some cause
she suddenly became frightfully excited, and, in la
wild frenzy, avowed her intention to go home and
cut her husband's throat. Another woman went out
with her, and seems to have pacified her to some ex-
tent; but, in an hour or two after they parted, the
incarnate fiend had actually carried her threat into
execution, Rutter's throat was cut from ear to ear,
and he was otherwise fearfully gashed. '
At a meeting of the Dock Committee yesterday, it
was stated that nearly £lBO,OOO had been expended
on new works on the Liverpool side of the Mersey
during the year. A somewhat interesting discussion
took plaee respecting the line of telegraphic corn=
munication along the line of docks. Mr. Mondel
said that they had at present fixed the number of
stations at eleven, and he proposed that the working
of the line be let, subject to a notice of six months.
Mr. Graves was of opinion that no competent per-
son would take the working of the line if he thought
that he would be ousted at the end of six months.
This gentleman made one or two very important
suggestions. He would wish to see the line extended
to the Central Police Station, which would be a great
boon in case of a fire breaking out at either end of
the town.

The assizes opened yesterday. Baron Watson de-
livered the charge to the Grand Jury, but it does not
possess any 'features calling for attention in this
column. It, and the cases disposed of so far, will be
found fully reported in another portion of to-day's
paper.

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ONE of the evils attaching to our Town Councils,
under the Reform regime, undoubtedly is, that the
Liberal or Whig-Radical party, in almost. every
borough in the kingdom, contrive to make them, as
far as possible, net so much municipal as political
bodies ; and, perhaps, in no Municipal Corporation
in the kingdom is this more strikingly illustrated
than in that of Liverpool. The elections to seate in
the touncil are invariably conduCted by that party
as political proceedings ; and too often they are
invested not only with all the party- rancour that,
belongs to political contests, but with much factious
feeling also,—under the influence of which, it must
be evident, the real interests of the town are apt to
be completely lost sight of. It is not always the
best men,—men of station, of character, of intelli-
gence, and therefore of real respectability,—who are
induced to come forward as candidates ; or for whom,
if they did, there would generally be much chance
of success ; but too frequently the noisy democrat—,
the forward, boasting demagogue,—he who can
curry favour with the populace, and has the best
opportunity, therefore, of carrying his point by
moans of a zampant. and. PIatISPAPI Otough 11019 w