Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-02-18 00:00:00

T'HE' iBVBGET.

The Daily News says Mr. &Facietone's letter in the
Globe produced a good- effect in the city yesterday
afteimoon. -

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The Herald does not, yet announce the point which
the Conservative party will select for an attack upon the
Budget. It hints that the treaty and the Budget ought
to be taken into consideration separately ; at all events,
according to the Herald, all the winds are rushing toge-
ther to destroy Mr. Gladstone's crazy bark.
The Times says that when everybody has made his
private complaint, and when it is admitted that the
Budget, as a whole, is good for trade, it becomes a very
nice question, whether any one loses more than he gains
by the general boon. When Mr. Gladstone observed
that the oemmercial treaty had been attacked from all
points of the compass, he could scarcely anticipate an
easier time for his Budget as a whole.

The death of Dr. Murray, Bishop of Rochester, took
place last evening.
The India Council are to, occupy temporarily a large
portion of the building constructing for the Westminster
Palace Hotel Company, at the rent of £6,000 a-year.
Public offices for the council are to be erected in the
same locality.
Notice of motion has been given in'the Court of Com-
mon Council, of the city of London, that the freedom of
the city, in a gold box, value fifty guineas, be presented
to Richard Cobden, Esq., M.P. in recognition of his
long and eminent services in liberating commerce from
the sha3kles which prevented the development of the
industrial enterprise of this country, and also for his
voluntary and patriotic exertions in negotiating the
recent treaty with France.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS.--YESTERDAY.

The EARL OF DERBY stated that the Earl of Malmes-
bury had received a private communication from Lord
J. Russell relative to the instructions given to Mr.
Bruce, which rendered it unnecessary that Lord Mal-
mesbury should proceed with the motion he had given
notice of on the subject.
Earl GRANVILLE repeated the statement already made
by Lord J. Russell—that France had declared, in the
event of Central Italy being annexed to Sardinia, she
should consider her position unsafe without the posses-
sion of Savoy ; but that no arrangements would be
entered into without the consent of the Great Powers,
and of the people of Savoy.
The Endowed Schools Bill passed through committee,
the clause being withdrawn which empower Dissenters
to ad as truttees of all schools not expressly limited to
the Church of England. _ .

Their Lordships then adjourned at twenty minutes
past eight o'clock.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-YESTERDAY.

The House met at four o'clock

Mr. DUCANE gave notice that, on the motion of Mon-
day next for going into committee on the customs acts,
he should move as an amendment, that this house,
recognising the necessity of providing for the increased
expenditure of the comings financial year, is of opinion
that it is not expedient to add to the deficiency by
diminishing ordinary revenue, and is not prepared to
disappoint the just expectation of the people by largely
increasing the income-tax.
In reply to Mr. Mildmay,
Mr. LAING said that the reduction of the duty on
foreign hops would not take effect until the Ist of
January, 1861.
Mr. S. HERBERT, in reply to Major Parker, said that
he should recommend that the training of the Militia
should be, as far as possible, simultaneous, and so as not
to interfere with the harvest.

Mr. BENTINC asked the First Lord of the Treasury
whether any understanding had been come to between
the Governments of France and England in the event
of the Commercial Treaty not being sanctioned by Par-
liament. . . .

Lord PALMERSTON said that the Government might
have been too sanguine 'in its expectations as to
the success of a measure they believed to be of the high-
est public importance, both in a commercial and political
point of view; therefore, confiding in the good sense of
the house and the country, the Government had not
thought it their duty to provide by any understanding
with France for the failure of their great expectation.
He then put it to the house whether good could arise
from these desultory discussions of the treaty.
In reply to Colonel Sykes,
Sir C. WOOD said that, for public convenience, the
business now transacted in the India House would in a
short time be transferred to 'Westminster.

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In reply to Mr. Gregory
Mr. CARDWELL said that when he brought in the
Poor-Law Amendment Act, he should state the course
he intended to pursue in reference to the religious
registration of foundling children. He quite admitted
that the law required alteration.
Mr. ROEBUCK asked the Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs, whether any negotiations have been entered into
with foreign Powers for the purpose of devising means
to prevent the forgery of trade marks of our manu-
facturers.

Mr. STIRLING asked the Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs, if he will make a statement to the
house explaining why' it is necessary or expedient
that the•fiscal arrangements between Great Britain and
France, proposed in the budget, should be made the
subject of a treaty, seeing that there exists no apparent
constitutional obstacle to the adoption of those arrange-
ments by the ordinary legislation of the two countries
respectively; and whether any correspondence bearing
on this point exists between her Majesty's Foreign
Secretary and Earl Cowley and Mr. Cobden, or between
any other official personages who took part in the late
negotiations; and if such correspondence can be laid
upon the table of the house.
Lord Jowl RUSSELL, in reply to Mr. Roebuck, said
that the opinion of law officers had been taken, and it
appeared that the penalties of our own law were very
insufficient for the punishment of the forgeries. We
could not therefore go to foreign nations to enforce
penalties which we could not enforce ourselves. It was
intended, however, to bring in a bill to strengthen our
own law, and then we could, with a better grace, go to
foreign nations. In reply to Mr. Stirling, he said that
the question was too large a one for him to enter upon
at present, and he reserved his arguments till the
whole question came before them on Monday. As
to commercial treaties, he looked upon them as
means to an end. He disapproved of them when
hostile to free-trade, and approved of them
when favourable to free-trade. As the question of
Savoy had been raised, he wished to state that the
Emperor had lately made a communication to our
Ambassador at Paris, in which he declared that no step
would be taken towards the annexation of Savoy
without consulting the Great Powers, nor unless the
people of Savoy desired it. The Emperor desired our
Ambassador to convey this communication to the British
Government, which had been repeated by the Foreign
Minister, M. Thouvenel.
Mr. DISRAELI wished to know in what form the
commercial treaty would be brought before the
house'? When Mr. Pitt brought forward the
commercial treaty of 1787, he first proposed
resolutions embodying the terms of the treaty which were
adopted in order by the House, and taken to the House
of Lords. He did not understand whether the Govern-
ment intended to adopt the course in the present instance,