Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-07-11 00:00:00

competition

But Ministers are evidently afraid of doing justice
to our Shipping in this matter. If Parliament must
proceed to remedy such a grievance whilst the
present war, is going on, was the argument of the
Homo Secretary, we should lay ourselves open to
the charge of not observing our neutrality. But
this need not be the case at all. Our Government
would only have to renew, by Royal Proclamation,
its strong injunctions against British subjects doing
anything whatever in violation of that neutrality,
whilst such unjust' and uncalled for restrictions: as
those which now exist were no longer in force and
if our Shipowners did anything against international
law, let them, of course, take the consequence.
British Shipping is now subject to an oppressive
municipal law unknown to the United States, or to
any other civilised nation ; and no fear of the dis-
pleasure of the French Emperor, or any other
foreign Potentate, ought to prevent the immediate
removal of such an oppression
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THE

ARMISTICE AND THE
QUADRILATERAL:
WHATEVER be the real motive of the armistice of
Villa-Franca, it is a delusion to loOk for it either in
the ill-success of the Austrians, or in the affected
" moderation" of Louis NAPOLEON. The former
had given proof that they were enemies not to be
despised, and, certainly we are as little disposed to
believe, in, as the Austrians are to trust, the magna-
nimity of the latter. Nor is there language too
strong to characterise. the insensate folly of the
"leading journal," which ascribes the recent turn of
events to the generous and benign consideration of a
conqueror whose irresistible career nothing could
have stayed but his own will or his own caprice.
On the contrary, the campaign hitherto has conferred
than prestige on the Allied arms, and all
prudens men must think that it would better become
an English writer to take a comprehensive view of
the whole series of past events, than to bespatter
his coltimns with the doubtful eclat of the French
Emperor.

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As the Allies approached the famous Quadrilateral
it is evident they began to scent the true nature of
-the difficulties which awaited them. Already did
the French seem to. pause for :th-e arrival of the.
reinforcements which are pouring with stealthy but
ill-disgliised haste into the battle-field of Italy.
Notwithstanding the premature boasts of news-
paper sycophants, and warriors, intoxicated with a
measure! of success, who have already learnt with
national: facility the lesson of the First Empire
"to lie like a bulletin "—Europe; atnused with 'the
phantom of glory, knew and felt thai nearly every.:
thing ;had yet to be done: Glory, as an end, is
but an 112 tangible and fruitless pursuit ; and what
more than a modicum of this remained to repay the
-sanguinary- and disastrous losses of Montebello,
Magenta, and Solferino This, after all, is- but an
empty return far the decimation of the "Guides,"
and the all-but extinction of the Zouaves, whose
exalted prestige need to inspire a whole army with
unbounded confidence and resolution.
To cross the Ticino, the allies had to win Palestro.
Nor had they reached the left bank of the Mincio
without leaving 'behind it almost another river of
'ibleod! And the object gained fbr the victorious
and wearied soldier was to see before him the
Vueatening fronty of Mantua and Verona, To