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WEDNESDAY;

LARCH 2, 1859

THE DAY'S NEWS

We are short of room to-day, and must be very
ehtiry of summing up the day's news. In Parlia-
ment, we may notice that the Mersey Dock and
Property Corporation Bill was defeated without
a division ; that is, that the Liverpool docks shall
not be rated for the benefit of the. poor. The
other business in Parliament will, be found reported
at length which its importance requires.
The 'news from the Continent this morning is
even more warlike than that we have already
alluded to. The unanimity which .prevails among ,
the organs of the French Government in Paris,
Brussels, and London, is an obvious sign that they
are obeying a knot d'ordre„' The articles on Lord
Cowley's mission which' have appeared in the
Patrie, the Nord, the Independettce, and the
Morning Post, might all proceed from the same
pen. One and all set down the great fact of the
,demand of 'the Pope for the evacuation of his ter-
ritories, as a scheme concerted between his
Holiness and the Austrian Government. Such a
concession they declare nugatory, as long as
the treaties are not revised. A correspondent
adds : " I belieie I may assure you that the French'
Government his 'not as yet sent an affirmative
answer to the Pope's demand. for evacuation, and
that the French. troops shall not be withdrawn
until Austria shall have yielded on all the points
at issue."

It is fully understood that, on the commence-
ment of hostilities, General Canrobert takes the
command in Lombardy ; and Admiral Perceval
Duchenes that of the fleet in the Adriatic. Mon-
talembert's periodical, Le Correspondent, comes out
with an article from the pen of M. De Falloux,
once Minister of President Louis Napoleon, at the
time of the attack on the Roman Republic, depre-
cating any change in the clerical government of
Central Italy. It is not likely that the Emperor
will pay much attention to his former Minister
:playing on an organ, the tunes of which have
grated very harshly "on the imperial ears.
Alarm, is felt in another quarter. Bavaria,
fears the transit of a a French corps by the
Lake of Constance, and has required of Austria
that a :division should be quartered in the
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Voralberg.
ACCounts from Hamburei, dated Feb. 24, state
that the old muskets used in the contest of 1848,
in the
Duchy a Schleswig-Holstein, have been
brought Out of the storehouses where they had
slumbared these ten years, and are now being
paeliid in cases of 25 each for shipment as a corn-
tdercial ,speculation to various parts of Italy.
of the old. fiint:guns.used in Sicily by the
-Ix4mrlation'inflB4B,llore the:-Undon Tower, mark,
but •theitiirifal in, that islanddited from the days
of Lord William Bentinck in 1810.
At the Birkenhead Commissioners' meeting,

held last night, the usual routine business was
transacted, and was devoid of the slightest public
interest. Mr. Gough qualified, and took his seat
after his election, and then positively stated that
another member of the Board was not duly quali-
fied to sit at the Board as a commissioner. The
subjecl will be further discussed at the next meet-
ing, at which time the Law-clerk will report on
the subject. The proceedings will bet found re-
ported elsewhere.
The inauguration dinner of the Liverpool Reform
Club took place in the London Hotel, Clayton-
square, last evening. Both in number and
character the event was a complete success. Mr.
Charles Willmer presided, and Mr. Robinson acted
as vice-president. Several admirable addresses
were delivered. Among the speakers was Mr.
George Francis Train, of Boston.

Owing to a press of important matter, we' are
obliged to leave, out a report of the meeting a the
needlewomens' institute, and other things, in-
cluding a notice of the performance at the Cabolie
institute, for the benefit of the late Basil Baker.

THE NEW REFORM BILL.
MINISITRS have been true to their engagement,
as to the introduction of a Reform such as it
is. For the fourth time has the necessity of a
further reform in Parliament been acknowledged
in the Speech from the Throne at the opening of
the Session, and the intimation given that a
measure for the' accomplishment of thit important
object would be brought forward by the Govern-
ment. The question has, in this way, been a 1,
Ministerial one, far the last ten years. And still.
it remains to be settled. Her Majesty has now,1::,
again had to repeat to her Parliament, in vei7
much the same terms as before,—" Your attention
will be called to the state of the !laws which
regulate the representation of the people in
Parliament, and I cannot doubt but that you will
give to this great subject a degree of calm and
impartial consideration, proportioned to the mag-
nitude of the interests involved in the result of
your discussions." It is certainly true that attention
has now again been called to the laws which,
regulate the representation of the people in
Parliament. The Chancellor of the Exchequer
has introduced the Ministerial Reform Bill. And
it now remains for Parliament to realise the hope
so confidently expressed from the Throne, that
they " will give to this great subject a degree of
calm and impartial consideration, proportioned to
the magnitude of the interests involved in the
result of their discussions."

With respect to the measure to which the calm
and impartial consideration of Parlirimcnt has, in
such anxious terms, been invited, we May say of it,
in one word, that it will most seriously disap-

point those who have shown the most eagerness
for further reforms in Parliament. The agitation
upon the question which has prevailed during the
last three or four months, has been among re-
formers who could not possibly be expected to 13Q
satisfied with so imperfect a measure --one
that falls so very far short of their ideas of
Parliamentary Reform, and, indeed, most
probably, of their desires as to the ulterior re-
sults of such reform. 'We say it will disap-
point them ; and yet perhaps it will not, since
they never, we believe, professed to expect any-
thing More comprehensive, or more sweeping, than
it is, from the hands of a Conservative Govern-
ment. It is undoubtedly a Conservative measure,
and they who really expected any other such
measure from a ConserVative Ministry, are
certainly somewhat unreasonable if. they complain
of much disappointment. „They are r.e4sinable
_enough in their 'complaints of • its shortcoraings
:and imperfectionS ; )and they.. will actact quit6-!Cali';'
sistently in opposing it, as of coarse they will do`,'
tooth and nail, in its progress through Parliament:.
But they did not look for anything better from the
' Derby Cabinet ; and they must therefore be'quite
prepared to fall back upon 'their own more aclk •
vanced and more capacious course.
The Ministerial Measure it will have been seen,
provides for an extension of the franchise in towns;
td lodgers of a £2O a-year rental, to such as have
had £6O in the Savings' Bank for a year, to those
• who have £lO a-year funded property, to pension-
ers of £2O a-year, and to certain classes' Whose
claims in some respect depend upon educaticrn.
And 40s. freeholders are to be voters for boreughi.
But there is to be no lowering of the present £lO
franchise. In counties the lowering Of the occu-
pation franchise. to 'llO, and the transfer 9f,405.
freeholders are the principal alterations prOpeSed,
combined with a provision for keeping the consti-
tuency

a county one intact. The increase of
members is to be, four to the Nest Riding, too
to South Lancashire, and two to Middlesexhund
seven new boroughs arc to be enfranchisdd, namely,
Birkenhead, Burnley, Staleybridge, Hartlepool,
Gravesend; and West Bromwich and WedneOury