Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-07-26 00:00:00

postponed for some time, in..consequence of as being as i ilairi y, the itching desire they felt; to have a finger
so. busily engaged is .parliamentary duties.
in this we
some particulars of .a meeting at Galway, on the •ry 'dirty pie.
subject -of that port being -made an Atlantic Packet 'The question may present
.itself_to the House, of
Station, will be found in our: columns to-day. The Commons in" this shape : whether it is the true policy
Rev. P. Daly, the leading man in this enterprise,
gave a-glowing account .of the support.whkh he re- nd.to.take every opportunity of weakening
eeived from the late Government, and stated that he her'eonneetion with the Continental system, or whe-
did not find the preseutGovernment animated by the ther 13y a fresh act of participation,she should involve
same:friendl feelings..
y He read a letter which he _ ,
not elf further in its baneful, though possibly neces-
had 'received from the 'Treasury, to -the effect that
the Government could -not at present undertake the sary., complications. In this case, _with the certainty
expense of the great improvements Which were that the Conservative party would go entirely along
sought for in the harbour of Galway.
with their leader, and the probability that a great'
many of the independent Liberals, with their well
known repngnance to the Continental system, would
follow them, the position of the present Ministry
would become precarious, and Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S
new command, which he somewhat ambitiously as-
sumed, prove of short duration, -Should the report
of yesterday, however, prove true, that COUNT

THERE is quite a rage, now,a-days, for programmes.
Louts NAPOLEON published one._as he entered upon
the Italian campaign,—a war which he -has been
justly and highly censured for provuki9g. He has
not been able to fulfil all that he
_drew up in this
celebrated programme. He intended to make Italy
free and independent, from the Alps to.the Adriatic ;
to expel the hated Austrian from the fertile plains of
Lombardy and Venetia. He eonld not ,aceomplish
this, and therefore he suddenly and abruptly pro-
pounded terms of peace, which were accepted by the
proud House of Hapsburg,
this campaign have been throughout a-paradox. He
is now blamed for the re-establishment -of that peace
which his Italian policy had interrupted. Louis
NAPOLEON thus spake, in reply to the -"corps,

PERSIGNY has taken to Paris,• as. the terns on
which England will join the Conference, the
propositions of ,a- disarmament -by France, this

in the opinion of the House, compromise
the matter in a way which preserves the dignity of

The circumstances of

the country, and conduces to the interests of -the
world. We are disposed to think that Louis
NAPOLEON will not object to this solution of the
difficulty. Whatever may be his ultimate designs,

diplomatique

which presented him with an adula-

for the present it is his policy to keep himself, and

tory address,—"Europe was in general so uniust to
" me at the beginning of the war, that I was happy
" at being enabled. to conclude peace so soon as the

make things in general, quiet. Even supposing that
the worst supicions of his critics are true, and that
an invasion of England forms part of the " Napo-

honour and interests of France were satisfied,' and

leonic " system, yet it is quite consistent with his
character, and with the whole tenor of his past life
to expect the usual interval in his career; the usual,
display ofmagnanimity, the usual close alliances and
cordial understandings. These are the footprints

to prove that it had never been my intention to
overturn Europe. I hope all reasons for disunion
will disappear, and that the peace will be of long
We most heartily concur in the
EMPEROR'S wish and hope. The EMPEROR of

duration."

stamped on the shores of time by the march of his
inevitable destiny, the progress of which is the
surer just as it is the more•deliberate. The Crimean
war led to a secret treaty with Russia. The Italian•
.invasion ,ended in a. concerted understanding with
Austria. What is it but a step in the same direction
should the cordial alliance with England lead to a
descent upon her shores ? Besides, with Louis NA-

AUSTRIA, in his manifesto, complains bitterly of the
conduct of the European Powers in not supporting

the terms of the Treaty of Vienna, -which they—were
parties to establish. So that the - causes' which

POLEON, the process of disarming seems to offer a

very small obstacle to a renewed process of arming.
His peace. establWlment is so like a war footing that
fhe one insensibly slides intO`rthe other, and with an
army of half a million he tells the world he has not

armed. We expect, -,however, thp,t the French

peror -will very readily -accept another pause, even..
though it be to prepare for another leap; and that if
he has interested designs to mask, he will not reject

any -means that offer, themselves to quieten the ap-

prehensions of England or Prussia

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