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Miscellaneous Attractions.

THURSDAY,

MARCH 17, 1859,

THE DAY'S NEWS

The news this morning is brief. In the House of
Commons last night there was a very short sitting.
Lord John Russell moved the second reading of the
Bankruptcy and Insolvency Bill, which was passed.
The registration of County Voters ( Scotland) Bill
was also read a second time. On the motion for
going into Committee on the Lunatic Poor Bill, a
discussion arose on an amendment that it be com-
mitted that day six months, which resulted in the
original motion being withdrawn.
The Globe of last night, in reviewing the position
of ministers and their Reform Bill, says : " The
difficulties of Ministers continue to multiply almost
hourly, not only out of doors, but within the House
where.their fate is to be decided. Should they get
over the amendment proposed by Lord John Russell
on the motion for the second reading, they will en-
counter in committee that same member, whose idea
they have incorporated and disguised in their bill ;
for yesterday Mr. Locke King gave notice of the
following amendment, to be moved in committee,
on the Representation of the People Bill: Page 2,
line 21, after tenant' leave out to the end of line
22, and insert, any dwelling house with or without
-any land, so that the dwelling house by itself or
with-the land shall be of the clear -yearly value of
not less than ten pounds ; provided always, that such
dwelling house shall be of the clear yearly value of
not less than free pounds.' " It adds, " Lord
John's friends are counting on certain suc-
cess ; we have seen it computed that, with
the utmost whipping on the part of Ministers, and
indifference on the Liberal side, the majority against
them will not be less than 50; and obviously the
proposition is one calculated to obtain affirmation
among Liberals generally, as Mr. Walpole and Mr.
Henley confess that it will among. Conservatives.
In that event, Ministers will have to determine
whether they will proceed with the Bill, or will
resign forthwith. It is true that, technically, they
might dissolve Parliament; but such a course is
improbable, because their supporters would be sub-
jected to the opposition of all those freeholders who
were to be deprived of their county votes by the
first clause of the Bill, but are not yet disfranchised."
In the Continental news there is nothing startling.
In Paris the effect produced by the note
in yesterday's Monileur appears to be far from
satisfactory, according to the letters from Paris
received this morning. Amongst bankers and
merchants the article is regarded as nothing
less than a preliminary to a campaign, in spite
of the pacific tone of the first paragraph. The
German Ministers at the Court of the Tuileries
say that it displays a perfidious spirit, as it
attempts to make the pudic believe that it is
Germany that menaces Frititce, and they have no
doubt it will produce bad effect among the German

the correspondent of the Times says that some
Persons who profess to be in the secret state that the
intention was to show that firmness and resolution,
instead or hesitation, were the bases of the imperial

..
The correspondent of the Herald states that the
article has excitedrveesh distrust and alarm. The
have commercial classes
beginning been so much harrassed of
late, that they are be tol entertain the opinion
arl
that an armed peace, with the alarms and uncer-
tainty of war, is mere prejudicial3adrid
than war itself.
The semi-official journal of announces that
Mexico has given full satisfaction
to Spain, consent-
ing to re-establish the treaties with
. that Power by
the
punishing the guilty persons and
indemnifyingade b y the
natives of Spain according to the award made
mediating Power.
The Courier of the Alps, a Journal of Savoy
lishes a severe article against the war policyof,CPouubni
de Cavour.
The Calcutta correspondent of the Tim(
in Times says, the
position may almost be described the old telegra-
phic formula, India is profoundly quiet. There are
riots in the Deccan, and riots reported from Travan-
core, and there are Sepo M
ys who still refuse to submit,
in Behar, but war, for the first time since ay, 185'7,

had ceased.
The Hong Kong advices state that Lord Big 4,
was at Shanghae, and his future movements were

-a 'known.

The sixty

-SON en Neapolitan Exiles to whom a few
days ago we kit quite at liberty to promise a gene-
rous reception among us, have already new reason to
bless the Providence which directed them to our

shores. The Subscription List, although only in
the second day of its existence, testifies to the broad
and noble spirit in which their sufferings and their
cause is contemplated by men of the most various
political opinion. On occasions like these, English
feeling, and English common sense go surely and
straight to their work. Tory or Liberal it is all
the same, we cannot help intensely hating oppression
when it is brought home to our perception ; and, if
the way is at all clear, we must do something to
abate it. _

Yesterday, at the Police Court, a case of some
commercial interest was disposed of. A person,
named Wright, the captain and part owner of a
ship called the Mersey, was charged with a con-
spiracy, with a man named Bouchier, to defraud Mr.
Edward Chaloner, the timber merchant, out of
£l3B. The vessel brought a cargo of mahogany
from Honduras to Mr. Chaloner, and in order,to
increase the freight, the captain induced the weight
takers to make a false return, increasing the freight
by the above sum. The case was clearly proved,
and the prisoners
,were sent for trial.

PROTECTION TO SHIPPING

IT is important and interesting to know that this

object is about being brought about,

much more

effectually than has yet been the case. Start not,
gentle reader. It is not the Protection to Shipping
of which our shipowners have been deprived by the

establishment of free trade that is going to be
wailings which have so loudly pre-
yet scarcely died away, on
account of such deprivation, are not going to be
silenced by any such concessions. It is quite another
kind of Protection to Shipping, and one much more
legitimate, and right principled. It is the protection
from the storms and the casualties to which it is

1 which have

exposed, by the provision of Harbours of Refuge on

our shor

We learn from the Report of the Commissioners on
this important subject, just issued, that the annual
loss of property from casualties on our coast, has
been estimated at £1,500,000 sterling, whilst the
average loss of life resulting from them, during a
period of six years, from 1852 to 1857, has amounted
to that of 780 persons annually ; and that in one year
alone (1854) no fewer than 1,549 persons perished
from these casualties. Taking this into considera-
tion, and looking at the state of our coasts, they
propose the construction of ten Harbours of Refuge,
—viz., at St. Ives, Padstow, Tyne River, Hartlepool,
and Filey, on the coast of England ; at Wick and
Peterhead, in Scotland; at Waterford and Carling-
ford, in Ireland ; and at Douglas, in the Isle of Man.
It appears that the sum required by way of loan for
the purpose of constructing such harbours will not
be less than £1,268,000; and the Commissioners say
they think it necessary to recommend that applica-
tion for loans proceeding from the localities selected
by them for harbours, should, in virtue of their
national character, be granted in preference to all
others. They observe on this part of the case, —" from
the foregoing statement it appears that the amount
of grants we propose is greater than that originally
contemplated ; but we are of opinion that the excess
in question is amply justified, since through its means
we are to obtain additional harbour improvement to
the value of upwards of £1,268,000 raised locally,
and that the security for life on the coast will riot
merely be extended in a corresponding degree, but
is shown to be very inadequately provided for in any
other way,"—adding, that they have come to the
conclusion, " it would not be advisable to restrict the
vote for the constructiot of these harbours to less
than £250,000 per annum, if any regard is to be had
to the rate of progress as effecting economy of con-
struction, and we are of opinion that the whole of
the works we have recommended should be completed
within ten. years from the present time." Their
object, in short, is to accomplish the purpose in hand
as effectually as possible. It has no doubt been a

matter of some difficulty to come to a correct decision

as to the best situations for such harbours ; and we

shall not presume to pass any judgment at present,
either upon those which they have selected, or those
which they have passed over. They state upon this
"the assurances which we generally received
whenever we held a public sitting, and without
exception at the places where the construction of
these harbours had become matter of common expec-
tation, of the entire satisfaction with the mode in
which we entered into the full investigation of the
claims preferred, lead us with confidence to the
expectation that equal justice will be done to the
careful consideration which has been bestowed on
each individual case in arriving at our decision." It
seems very likely that all the places selected may be
found suitable enough for the purpose. But whether
or not there are others more suitable—since the
number is to be thus limited—is a question
on which there will, of Bourse, be a difference
of opinion ; and it will well deserve to be fully
discussed. The Commissioners do not deny that
the questions under consideration have touched
very closely the commercial interests and
rivalries of neighbouring ports, and the pecu-
niary interests of large and wealthy districts of
country in their neighbourhood, and that corre-
sponding feelings have been very keenly excited.
But they indulge, they say, the hope " that all
those to whose cordial assistance they have been
so much indebted during the prosecution of the
inquiry will be influenced both by patriotism and
humanity to lay aside such feelings, and to join

point,-

heartily in promoting those measures which may
result from their labours, without which they can
meet with but partial success,"—a hope in which we
cannot but join; though, at the same time, it were
but reasonable that what they have done should be
made the subject of discussion by practical men, in
order that the soundness of their decisions may be
fairly tested.