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FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 1859.

THE DAY'S NEWS,

In the House of Lords, last night, Lord Stanley of
Alderley, in presenting a petition, enquired whether
any change was contemplated in the government of
Singapore. The Earl of Carnarvon, in reply, said the
matter was in negotiation. In the House of Com-
mons, Lord John Russell stated the terms of his
intended amendment on the Government Reform
Bill, which are as follows : " That this House is of
opinion that it is neither just nor politic to interfere
in the manner proposed by this Bill with the free-
hold franchise as hitherto exercised in Counties in
England and Wales, and that no re-adjustment of
the franchise will satisfy this house or the country
which does not provide for a greater extension
of the suffrage in cities and boroughs
than is contemplated in the present measure."
The Chancellor of the Exchequer gave an indication
that the government would give way on the Forty
Shilling Freehold portion of the Bill ; after which
a debate ensued upon the late funding of Exchequer
Bills, and a motion that no funding should in future
take place without the special authority of an act
of Parliament ; but the motion was withdrawn.
Sir A. Elton introduced a series of resolutions for
the extinction of Church Rates. Lord Bury called
attention to the Newfoundland Fishery question,
and Sir E. B. Lytton said that a mixed commission
had been appointed for the .purpose of making
enquiries on the spot. Meanwhile the captains of
English and French vessels were instructed to act
with the greatest forbearance.
The steamer Indian arrived yesterday from Port-
land. There is some interesting news from Canada.
According to the Toronto Globe, the Government is
suffering from internal dissensions. The meetings
of the Executive Council had lately become very
stormy ; the leading members were known to be
playing at cross-purposes ; so that altogether there
was a likelihood that the Cabinet would commit
suicide, if not speedily disposed of by the House.
In
the Canadian Parliament, the Hon. S. Smith,
Postmaster-General, had introduced a series of
resolutions, alarming the necessity of an address
to her Majesty,
on the subj.ect of subsidies
to ocean steamers, The e object of the resolutions is
Canadian line to claim for the of steamers at least
equal consideration from the mother country with
the line carrying the mail to the United States.
They ask for no preference, but they do hope to be
relieved from the great discouragement of competing
upon unfair terms with the Cu line sustained by
a subsidy from the British government of £BOO,OOO
per annum. "Take all subsidies away," says Mr.
Smith, "or put us on an equal footing. fir Smith
contends that Great Britain, by thus neglecti. Can-
ada, is counteracting all her former efforts in hernE
To what purpose have costly canals and railv:auys
r.
been built by British capital and avowedly for Im-
perial objects if you extravagantly subsidise ships
which draw all trade from Canadian ports to New
York and Boston. The money invested hi light-
houses, piers, wharves, canals, and railways is all
sunk by their policy, and those who have guaran-
teed our debts are doing their best to make us
bankrupt. Mr. Smith said that 7,Q00,000/ of our
debt had been incurred in this way, the avoWed
ultimate object of Great Britain being that the St.
Lawrence should be the outlet of a trade which was
to be drawn from the•opposite shores of the Pacific.
The above is an extract from a Toronto correspon-
dent of a Montreal journal.
Despatches from St. John's, N.F., state that Mr.
Shea, Speaker of the Assembly, has resigned, in
consequence of some obnoxious appointment in con-
nection with the Fisheries, and it is rumoured that

a formidable attempt will now be made to break
down the present government.
The following is extracted from a speech of the
Hon. Provincial Secretary of Nova Scotia in answer
to the Hon. Joseph Howe :—" As regards the ques-
tion of a Federal Union if the leader of the oppo-
sition had waited patiently until the government
could bring down the papers and develope their
action, he would probably have found that the
course proposed would meet with the unanimous
concurrence of this house, as, with reference to a
Federal Union of the Provinces, I presume there
is but one opinion in this country."
We have San Francisco dates to the sth February.
Business was brisk and money easy. There had
been heavy rains, and the whole country was
excessively muddy. News from the mines favourable.
From Oregon intelligence is that the Indians are
quiet. The Indians in Southern California were
troublesome, and General Clarke was about to
' proceed with 500 men to chastise them. A bill to
legalise decimal currency had been introduced in
Vancouver's Island Assembly. Large amounts of
merchandize were being smuggled into British
Columbia from the adjacent American towns.
Frazer River had risen several feet and was free from
ice, and miners generally were at work.
The Paris correspondent of the Daily News says :
"It was inferred from the telegram that Lord
Cowley's mission had substantially failed, and a great
many sales were made under that impression. It
must be admitted that if Austria intends to hold by
the declaring of her official journal, there is an end
of the expectations that she would consent to aban-
don her position in Central Italy. The renunciation
of an obsolete clause in an old treaty with Naples
appears to be the only concession which she is ready
to make. However, later in the day, the rumour
was set about, and found many believers, that—
, notwithstanding the article of the Vienna Gazette
—Lord Cowley had obtained important concessions
which would probably be satisfactory. The Rente
for account fluctuated in the course of the day
between 69f. 20e. and 68f. 50c. It closed at 68f.
90c., with a rise of 5c., the favourable aspect of
the news being less credited, as the bell rung, than
it had been a few minutes before. Various
reports were afloat as to the Vienna Metallics,
some stating that they had fallen five per
cent. to-day, and others that the fall was only a per
eent. It is deplorable that the telegram from the
Vienna Bourse, which so materially affects the
market, should be kept back for the use of a few
privileged speculators instead of being regularly
posted for general information as soon as received.
There was no ultimate change in the Rente for cash.
Mobilier fell sf. There was very little alteration in
the final quotations of the railways.
At the Dock Board, yesterday, Mr. Smith's motion
to rescind a resolution giving the contract for
building offices on the timber land at the Canada
Dock to Messrs. Robert Thompson and Co., was
withdrawn, after a long discussion. A motion by
Mr. Forwood to direct the solicitor to report upon
all railway bills affecting Liverpool was also
withdrawn.
Mr. J. Pemberton Heywood yesterday intimated
his consent to the request of the deputation who
waited on him to solicit him to become a candidate
for the southern division of the county, upon the
retirement of Mr. William Brown.

From the report of the medical officers of the
borough, read at the Health Committee, yesterday,
it appears that the public health is satisfactory, and
that, although the deaths for the week ending
Saturday were a few more than the preceding, the
majority were very old persons, who died in the
course of nature, and not from disease. Disease of
all sorts is on the decline.

There is literally nothing new from the Continent
this morning.

DOING AND UNDOING IN THE COUNCIL

OUR report yesterday of the Town Council meeting
contained a record of one act and deed which we
cannot but consider very discreditable to our Muni-
cipal Parliament. It was the passing, by a majority
of nearly two to one, of a motion to this effect,—
" To rescind the following resolution of the Council,
passed at their meeting on the 2nd inst., so far as
relates to the appointment of a general superinten-
dent of the markets, viz., That a general
superintendent of all the markets be appointed, at a
salary not exceeding £3OO per annum."' Now this
is as gross an instance of doing and undoing, in the
short space of a few days, as ever threw disrepute
upon any public body. One has a right to expect
that men in the responsible positions of
Aldermen and Town Councillors would take
care that their votes were such on any
occasion, that what they did one week they would
not come forward and undo the next. It is no
right way of transacting the public business, to veer
about from one opinion to another, without any
tangible reason, every few days, so that the votes of
one meeting have to be rescinded at another. Surely
there can be no due consideration of the matter in
hand, when a vote deliberately given one week has
to be upset the next. It is not as if anything had
occurred to-point out a mistake—to Phew that they
were not aware of something seriously affecting the
question which had since come to light, Nothing of
the kind can with any fairness be pleaded on this
occasion. It was a matter of opinion—perhaps of
conviction—then, in one direction ; and now it is
only a matter of opinion in another and a totally
opposite one. The appointment of a Superintendent
of Markets was decided to be desirable then, and
nothing has since taken place to make it otherwise.
It was all very fine for a worthy Alderman to get
up and repeat that " he considered the appointment
so monstrous, that he did not see how any person
could support it ;" that " he denied it would be
attended with economy, but asserted that it would
be more expensive ;" and that "it was also unjust to
the present superintendents : there had never been
any complaints made against them ; then why
remove them ?" All this was utterly out of place ;
for the question had been set at rest already by the
Council having deliberately decided against
it. More consistent, perhaps, was another
worthy Alderman, who " expressed his regret
that he had not been present at the last
meeting to have given his opposition to the
decision that was arrived at ; but, very unusually
for him, he had been called away, and did not
return until it was too late to record his vote." Yet
he was bound, upon every principle of right and
regular proceeding in a public body like a Town
Council, not to lend himself to undo what a majority
had in his absence formally and solemnly decided it
was expedient to do.
Certainly those who had become candidates for
the appointment have very great reason to complain
of their being thus made game of. No doubt they
must have been put to great trouble, if not also some
expense, in obtaining testimonials, and making other
preparations. And now they are to be coolly told
that the appointment for which they were invited to
apply is not to be made ! Altogether, we repeat, it
is a most discreditable affair.

And hence he has had recourse to the old device o
the artful,—"Assumed a virtue, though he had it
not." The resignation of his Majesty's cousin, the
Prince NAPOLEON, is perhaps the surest sign we
have yet had of the Emperor's altered purpose ; and
it is an act of deep significance. In one point of
view, it may probably be meant to be regarded as an
act of propitiation. The Prince has all along, it is
understood, been the great instigator of war, and
has, it is believed, done more than even his Imperial
cousin to provoke an outbreak. He might, it is true,
as the Emperor has done, have made a virtue of
necessity, and have sought to propitiate by desisting.
But then his position with the King of Sardinia is
personally, if not politically, different. He has
married Sardinia's Princess on the express condition
of obtaining French assistance for that Power against
Austria. He is therefore doubly, whilst Louis
NAPOLEON was only singly pledged. And here is
the awkward place in the latter's new position.
He has set aside his virtual engagements to Sardinia,
in renouncing his warlike objects,—if he really has
renounced them. How he will get out of this
dilemma with Sardinia remains to be seen ; though
it is one with which he arid VICTOR EMANUEL have
only to do, and they must settle it between them-
selves. But the Prince—VlCTOß EMANUEL'S son-in-
law—made such, in fact, as a war expedient - is al-
together, we repeat, differently situated. The least
he could do was to resign his office under one who
was playing false with so near a connection, and to
whom he had put himself under such peculiar obliga-
tions.

The real nature of the French Emperor's altered
policy,—or, at least, profession of policy,—is the
greater facility it affords for the successful mediation
of England. Lord COWLEY'S mission to Vienna was
one, it is confidently stated, purely suggestive. We
hear that he was not the bearer of any kind of
ultimatum, the reception or the rejection of which
on the part of Austria was to decide the question of
peace or war. " The nature of his non-official and
not official mission," said the Memorial Diplomatique
a day or two since, " excluded the presentation of
any peremptory propositions. It is evident to all
those who are conversant with diplomatic proceed-
ings that Lord COIiVLEY is more particularly charged
to bring about between France and Austria a state
of feeling sufficiently friendly to serve as the basis
of an ulterior negociation, which would then assume
an official character. In spite of the sinister prog-
nostics which the manufacturers of news are pleased
to propagate," adds that semi-official journal, " we
are happy to learn that the negociation confided to
Lord CowLEY has already made an important pro-
gress. Certain principles are said to have been
admitted on both sides, and this preliminary under-
standing will give rise to counter propositions, the
sole object of which will be to determine the bearing
and the application of the principles so accepted."

So that, if this be true, the altered tone of the
French Emperor, and the consequent resignation
of his Majesty's cousin, the Prince NAPOLEON,
may at any rate be traced directly to Lord COWLEY'S
mission. It may, at the same time, be true, as we
see it stated in some of the latest Continental
advices, that the firmness of Austria, combined with
the disposition of the German States to assume
a strong attitude, has induced both France
and Sardinia to moderate their demands; while the
preparations for hostilities have been discounte-
nanced, both by the banking and mercantile interests,
in Paris and the departments, whose transactions
have already been seriously prejudiced by the unto-
ward course of events. These several influences have
very probably had their effect. Yet it is very doubt-
ful if they would have prevailed, but for the diplo-
matic efforts of the British Government, acting in
harmony with public opinion both here and on the
Continent.

Still there remains, after all, the Italian question
to be settled, not only as it bears upon Sardinia, but
upon the Papal States. It is become already a sub-
ject of alarm, that the very evacuation of those
States by foreign troops may give the greater oppor-
tunity for the success of French intrigue; for, as it
has been with only too much semblance of truth
observed, " as it now appears that France has a right
to interfere wherever there is a cause, just or unjust,
to defend, it is obvious that Austria cannot cross her
frontier to put down disturbances without provoking
the immediate hostility of France." So that the
inferences of the same writer are perhaps but too
reasonable, or too palpable, when he goes on to say,
—" on the whole, the evacuation adds but little to
the prospects of peace. It is true that the measure
was demanded by Lord CLARENDON at the Congress
of Paris, and that no plausible reason can be fur-
nished for the permanent occupation of a foreign
territory. But the interference which the Central
Italians have really cause to deprecate will exist
as long as the Catholic Powers guarantee the per-
petual immunity of the Pope. A just or plausible
demand becomes odious when it is put forward for
the purpose of hastening on an unnecessary quarrel.
It is evident that the French Government has not
spent several millions, and caused universal alarm
at home and abroad, for the sole purpose of improv-
ing the condition of the Legations. When the
ostensible cause of quarrel is removed, there will be
abundant complications behind ; and already the
official press of Paris is deprecating the assumption
that the concessions offered by Austria will furnish
a solution of existing difficulties."*