The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-07-18 00:00:00

DATL' TIMES, WEDNESDAY, JULY 18, 1860.

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1, ECFLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE.
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' x, 4ICES AND APPOINTMENTS VACANT;
rl"` '4 ICES
i.:O 'i!''- RECTORIES.
Dibden,: ants : dio. Winchester: val. £4OO with residence :
k r.pat. I'd Ashburton : Rev. J. Gtay, dec.
: • ,TA.• VICARAGES.
Dudellitlion, Northamptonshire : dib. Peterborough : val. £157
with residence : pat. Bishop of Peterborough.: Rev; C. B:
Lowe, prom. ,
Salehurst, Sussex : dio. Chester : val. £503 with residence : pat.
C. Hardy, Esq. : Rev. Dr. Wrench, dec.

NEW RAG & WASTE PAPER WAREHOUSE•
To HEADS of FAMILIES, HOTEL KEEPERS, MANU-
FACTURERS, MERCHANTS, WAREHOUSE KEEPERS,
MASTERS of VESSELS, ,Sce.

At the WAREHOUSE, 41, HARRINGTON-STREET (nearly
opposite Doran's-lane, Lord-street), the BEST PRICE is given
fur RAGS, ROPES, BAGS, OLD ACCOUNT BOOKS, NEWS-
PAPERS, PAPER SHAVINGS, and Waste Paper generally.
Heads of Families and others forwarding a notice to the
ofllce as Muia, will receive immediate attention.
l'he Proprietor begs to say that, as this is no Marine Store
(properly so called), respectable persons need have no hesitation
in transacting business with the Office.

HENRY GREENWOOD (PaopßrEToa),

WHOLESALE STATIONER AND RAG MERCHANT,
41,-HARRINGTON-STREET.---41,
And at 32, CASTLE-STREET.

APUBLIC WANT SUPPLIED!
THE BOON TO THE COMMUNITY !
NO MORE FAMINE PRICES!!!
MONSTER MEETINGS OF THE PEOPLE EVERY DAY,
THE GREAT AMERICAN SALT BEEF

PORK HOUSE,
83, BYROM-STREET (OPPOSITE GERARD-STREET).
BEEF.

Prime Western States Beef, in the original tierces, as imported,
3d.,
31d., 41., 40., 5d., 50., and 6d. per lb.
PORK,
In the original barrels, as imported.
5d., 50., and 6d. per lb.
Families and large consumers supplied with single Casks
(Beef 304 lbs, Pork 200 lbs,) at Wholesale Prises.
Town. and Country orders carefully executed.

THE

CUIRASS SHIRT,

WHICH IS SO UNIVERSALLY APPROVED OF,

MAY Br OBTAINED AT
P. L. MACTAGGART'S,

24 AND 26, BOLD-STREET,

At Prices varying from
FORTY-EIGHT TO EIGHTY-FOUR SHILLINGS]

PER DOZEN.

Materials Good. and fit Warranted.

already returning to the old ways of absolutism, and
that an alliance with an "excommunicated Sovereign,"
only to be resorted to in extreinis, is now contemptuously
set aside. This may or may not be ; but it is far more
probable that it is a case of "sour grapes," and that all
the difficulties come from Turin.

The Neapolitan war steamer Veloce beats the Flying
Dutchman. Its velocity is such that it is able to be in
two places at once, or else (and who would venture on
making such a charge ?) the Patrie and Pays have been
circulating a falsehood. Two days ago, it was stated
that the Veloce had gone over to Garibaldi, and been
docked at Palermo. The Patrie now tells us it is at
Naples, waiting to take on board General Pinelli,
whom it is to convey to Messina. • Two more- steamers
have gone over to Garibaldi. The semi-official prints
give out that they are only merchantmen.
We are informed that a captain of the Royal Navy, lately
appointed as naval attache to the British Embassy at Paris,
has had his appointment cancelled, the French Govern-
ment objecting to the gallant officer on the ground of
his having spoken against the Emperor. This is con-
sidered a mere pretence, the real ground of the objec-
tion being believed to be that the gentleman iu ques-
tion has long resided in France, and, being acquainted
with the country, his means of information as to the
naval preparations, &c., of our gallant ally would have
been disagreeable to the Imperial Government. A
naval attache, to be of any use, must be well acquainted
with France. He must know the coast, and he must
feel at home in the official world, and know that their
statements are ever to be distrusted. However ener-
getic and intelligent, an officer fresh from a naval com-
mand, or from his club, must spend years in acquiring
the knowledge of place and people, which only a long
residence in the country can impart. We strongly sus-
pect that no resident in France will obtain the sanction
of the French Government as naval attache,—unless
too old or to incompetent to discharge his duties effi-
ciently. If we are correct in our information, what a
state of matters have we here disclosed. What' is the
value of an alliance with' a Power entertaining such
treacherous views ? --
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The Frankfort Gazette repeats the news that the Prince
of Prussia is to visit the French Emperor at Chalons.
" He considers it only civil to return the morning call
he received at Baden." What exquisite urbanity !
M. de la Greca, Special Envoy from Naples, was
received by the Emperor the other morning at St.
Cloud. M. de la Greca is an old friend of his Majesty's.
Both were members of the same yenta of Carbonari in
1832. Another member of the association was Felice
Orsini. M: de la Greca intends coming to London.
The Count of Syracuse (uncle to the King of Naples)
has refused to take the command of the National Guards.
His Highness, whose liberality and enlightenment are
well known, has always been opposed to shams.
Erom Syria we learn on good authority that the worst
is over, but yet it must not be forgotten that the French
Government has it in its power to bring about a renewal
of the contest. It is stated that, having made prepara-
tions to interfere, our gallant ally is bent on interfering,
even though the pretext for his disinterested aid no
longer exists. In pursuance of this policy, the Govern-
ment prints repeat every night, " Matters in Syria are
worse than ever." Bat they do not mention a single
fact to bear out their assertion.

"For many days past a convic4on, which I hesitate
almost to write," says a correspondent at Beyrout, " has
been forcing itself on the minds of all Itten.here. I
have been one of the last to adopt it, and have delayed,
until I could do so no longer, to ventilate the subject.
But as with others so with me, facts and proofs—
evidence both direct and circumstantial—force me to
adopt this creed, which every one in Beyrout—English,
French, Russian, American, or Syrian—at first faintly
whispered, and now boldly speak out. It is this—That
from the commencement the Druses have been carry-
ing on this bloody war of extermination, with the
connivance, if not by the express secret orders
of the Turkish Government, or, at any rate, of
the Turkish local authorities, and that all they have
done hitherto is but part of a grand Turkish scheme
toa. exterminate altogether the Christian element in
Syria. lam not prepared to go so far as most do,
and to say that this hellish scheme has been hatched in
- Constantinople, and that the central government is
cognisant as to what hands pull the strings here. But I
.speak advisedly when I say that Koorchid Pacha (the
Governor of Beyrout, of Lebanon, of Sidon, Tyre, and
so forth), or ' Cursed Pacha,' as he is now called, has
all along been cognisant of all the Druses were about
to do; that he has—almost avowedly—helped them
with food, ammunition, and arms ; that none of his
troops nor any of the local authorities have at any time
raised a hand against the Druses, although from the first
they have been• the aggressors ; that from the first he
might have stopped the bloodshed and carnage, but has
never done so ; that, on the contrary, he has manifestly
helped it by leiring the Christians on all occasions to
their fate." If not altogether hatched in Constantinople
—how far was it aided, indirectly perhaps, from Paris ?

MR. SHIMMIN'S UNFOUNDED ATTACK
ON THE DAILY TIMES."

AT the weekly meeting of the Markets Committee
on. Monday last, Mr. SHIMMIN is said to have
drawn attention to a report of the proceedings
of the last meeting in the Liverpool Courier,
which, he said, " was as far from the - truth as
-light was from darkness ; it was calculated to
mislead the public, and was absolutely false."
He accordingly gave notice that at the next
meeting of that committee, he should move—
" That, unless the proceedings of the committee
be more fairly and impartially reported by the
representatives of the Daily Times and Courier,
they be refused admittance to the meetings of
this committee." We may here briefly explain
to such of our readers as do not already know
the fact, that the Courier does not send a reporter
to the weekly meeting of the Markets Committee :
alter the economical fashion of the weekly papers
it avails itself, second-hand, of the labours of
the costly staff of reporters which we, as well
as the other daily papers, are obliged to maintain.
Of course we mention this only in explanation ;
and to. show that the complaint urged by Mr.
SHIMMIN against the Daily Times and • Courier
falls mainly, if not wholly, against ourselves, the
probable inference from Mr. SHIMMIN'S statement
being that the Courier had copied our report.
We felt, therefore, that it became especially our
duty to investigate the accuracy of the defama7
tory assertion. The 13aily Tinges, under its
present proprietorship, having been always in
a position to give full, accurate, and impartial
reports of all local meetings, we confess we
were startled on first reading Mr. SHimmiN's
charge ; but, well aware that even with a fully
efficient, and numerous staff of reporters, errors
and omissions will occasionally occur, we turned
to our file and to that of: our obntemporaries, in
order to' ascertain, by comparison, how far our
reporter had neglected his duty. The solution of
the difficulty increased on n4irlg that, as com-
pared with anyother published reports of the meet-
ing in question; we had given, so far as we could
judge, the fongest and best ! • Resolved to get at
the bottom of the matter as speedily as possible,
we addressed a personal inquiry to Mr. SHIMMIN.
The following is his reply :---
Liverpool, July 17, 1860.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY TIMES

Ste,—l find I was in error yesterday, in alluding to*
your paper as having contained an unfair report of the,
proceedings of the Markets Committee, of M9tlday, the
9th instant. The mis-statement I complained of was
reported in the Mercury (as well as the Coui-ler), in which
it is stated " that Mr. Nickson supported the decision
of the Committee, as to the closing of the Markets at;
ten o'clock on Saturday evening,'' it being well known,
that the Coinmittee never came to such decision:--,-I am,
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sir, yours &0., . • .

lITS—C-onfession of error OnTilieparT
MJ • ,
cotitirmq the
.QPitniph we had formed• that our
report,_ as usual,..was the most aCcurate,andaMple
that. had beeu,pl4l4ished. In the Meantime, hew:-
ever, some tens of thousands have read Mr. Simi-
mtreS false accusation, upon -whoselpinds 4:694
not fail to produce. au. iirlfavouranie impreasion in
regard to our trustworthiness as journalists of
passing eyents. Many who saw the charge
may never see .the- refutation ; and 01341
to some extent trreparable,.:is,,inflioted • ni/On
us.. We must say we looked upon the unkind•
cut with all the more keenness that it came

from a gentleman who professes himself to
be one of our supporters ; and who might
have saved himself and us all trouble, had he
taken the precaution of calling upon us personally
for an, explanation of the wrong which he
erroneously supposed we had done him. We
cannot but remember that in times past we have
lent our humble aid in fighting Mr. SHIMMIN'S
battle, in the interest of the honourable
cause he professes to espouse; and we do not
think it would have: been a very great return or
overstrained courtesy, had he told us that, rightly '
or wrongly, he felt aggrieved by our report. He
-mould then have perceived his mistake in time to
prevent a serious misrepresentation. After
spending health and strength, to say nothing
of investing an enormous capital, in an
effort to establish successfully a daily Con-
servative organ, it is rather mortifying
to find that one whose professions might have
entitled us to calculate upon his forbearance and
support, in every possible way, should thus have
rushed into the field to attack us publicly, in the
most eager manner,—not even thinking it worth
while first to make really certain of the fact that
we were the authors of the report in question.
Is this all the value our Conservatives set upon
the influence of the Press? Are they prepared
thus recklessly to wound their own best friends?
Fortunately, we have attained a position and
reputation which amply repay us for all the energy
and money we have expended in the support of
the great Conservative cause in this district ; but
no thanks to Mr. SHIMMIN, and certain others of
his class we could name, whose conduct towards
this paper has been utterly inconsistent with their
professions.
Apart altogether from Mr. SHIMMIN'S blunder,
we have a word to offer as to his resolution for
excluding reporters from the meetings of the
Markets Committee. The ground upon which
the charge of inaccuracy is founded is of the most"
trivial description. Our Radical contemporary,
who has now to answer the charge of inaccuracy
falsely levelled against us, can defend itself, and
we have no wish to interfere between it and Mr.
SHIMMIN. But in the interest of the Press
generally, we assert that Mr. SHIMMIN'S insult is
perfectly gratuitous. The , substitution of the
word " Committee" fop " Council" is about the
extent of the inaccuracy—probably no more than
a printer's misreading. This, Mr. SHIMMIN says,
makes the report " as far from the truth as light
from darkness—calculated to mislead the public,
and absolutely false!" Mr. SHIMMIN utters this
bombast against the Daily Times. Most people will
infer that such eloquence must have sprung from
some graver blunder on our part than that speci-
fied by Mr. SHIMMIN, and to which we have
alluded. Perhaps we made a great blunder in
supporting the Early Closing Movement, of
which Mr. SHIMMIN and a majority of the
Markets Committee have shown. themselves the
not less decided, becauSe unavowed, enemies.
Could Mr, SiummlN have desired to punish us
for the advocacy of the rights of the working
man ? If he did, he certainly has made an
appropriate beginning by proposing to suppress
or restrict the freedom of the Press.

Even had our report not been—as it was—the
most faithful and accurate report published ; had
it been ten times more inaccurate than Mr.
SHimmiN attempted to prove ; what right has he
to propose to exclude the Press from meetings of
the Markets or any other public committee of the
Council ? None whatever. Having, at enor-
mous cost, undertaken to supply the public with
daily reports of all public meetings, we present
ourselves at any open board in the name of the
public ; and we tell Mr. SHIMMIN that we have
fully as good a right to be there as he has. The
public sent him there to perform certain duties,
and the same authority has commissioned us to
be also present. Ia it for Mr. Stu-m*lN to judge
between the public and the Press how far the
latter does its duty properly ? In the present
instance, the censor of the Press turns out to be
himself the principal blunderer ; and the charge
of making statements " calculated to mislead the
public" .recoils upon himself., .-We are much mis-
taken if the effect of this ill-advised manifestation
of dislike for the Press be not to deepen the con-
viction of the public that the presence of the
reporters for the Press generally, and of the
Daily Times particularly, is both Useful and ne-
cessary at our public boards—especially at the
Markets Committee.

While we have thus deemed it a duty to our-
selves, and to the Press generally;freely, to express
our opinion of Mr. SHIMMIN'S unfounded and ill-
advised attack, we wish it distinctly to be under-
stood that we frankly accept Mr. SHIMMIN'S
explanatory letter as a tardy but satisfactory
exculpation of the _Daily Tinzes. We do so in the
very best spirit towards Mr. SHIMMIN, and with
no harsher wish towards him than that, for the
future; in the performance of his public duties, he
may unite " the wisdom of the serpent with the
harmlessness of the dove," and learn to make a
more thoroughly practical distinction between
his friends and his enemies of the Press.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

(From our own Correspondent.)

PARIS, Monday Evening, July 16, 1860.

been noticeable
A great degree of activity hits
for the last few days among the members of the
Diplomatic Corps. Prince Metternich and M. de
Kisseleff have had several interviews on the same
day with M. Thouvenel. Everything appears to
denote an anxious desire to arrive without delay
at a solution of Italian affairs, and the tendency
of these efforts is undoubtedly of a favourable
kind towards the governments of both Rome and
Naples, provided these two powers do not continue
to act as hitherto, in defiance of common sense
and common prudence, of which, however, there
is but little hope,
.

. .
The withdrawal of the measure relative to- the
exportation of rags is confirmed. What chiefly
led to the termination of the negotiations on this
Subject: between the Corps Legislatif and the
Council of State, was its having been ascertained
that among the amendments proposed by the
commission nominated at the Palais-Bourbon,
there was a stipulation that the tariff, as
thus proposed to be amended, should not
henceforth be modified by any legislative
measure, but only by the, prerogative
of . the sow/vign. A 4 it is not to be
concealed, that the air of resignation with which
•the liovernment has sacrificed the •schenie in
question, renders it very probable that the
Emperor, sooner or later, will take occasion to
recur to his object, through the medium of a
supplementary treaty of commerce, negotiated
directly with England. His power under the
present constitution to do so, will not readily be
disputed, and it is said that he has the will.
There has just been distributed, in large num-
bers, to the members of the tl,vol%ishAtiv.bodies,
. ,
and other dignitaries and fuinctionaNl.es, 0, report
by WA. ein, one of the lately-appointed
senators, upon -a measure relative to the opera-
tions of the law against the usurpation of titles
of nobility. This report, 'which is of a qUite
recent date (4th July), has not been, and is not
likely to be, published in the Moniteur ; but it is
once - curious and . interesting, in
. more
• than • one point . of view. A M.- de: Mon-
. .
NRY.OII, in the .department
G9verument that the
loaf wthe
Qse
the 28th complainsof mity; to theB 5, is not putin-eXecu-
tion_bt_the.publie_ proseciitei'S, and he propOses, as
.i
a remedy for. the evil, that every title to nobility
!shall
.be -.verified throughout 1-17rgittice,, and that
every titled pyrt.9 shall. be 13940, within a- given •
to prodUce the act which confers upon him
his title, or exhibit proof (hairing been
existence for -a- century..: The .c.liVnission
entrusted, with the eisq,LAttatort of this gentle
aft4i care#llly'coriSi4ering-ita--4nb
jeot matter, has reported that the, I4W to question
huts not attained its object, that. it .must.-be
altered. The commissioners therefore, p,ro,p.ose
that the Government 811.4, el4l-blish register

THE FRENCH FUNDS.

PARIS, July
.17.

3 35 P.M.—The Bourse has been flat, and little
business was clone. Rentes closed at 68f 90c, or
20c. lower than yesterday.

THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT AND
GARIBALDI.

The Paris letter of the Daily News says that
private orders have lately been given to the
French press to say as little as possible about
Garibaldi.

The Paris Illustrated News was very nearly
prevented coming out on Saturday last—all the
plates represented scenes of the Sicilian war, in
most of which Garibaldi was the principal figure.
The difficulty was only got over by erasing
Garibaldi's name wherever it appeared in the
letterpress at the foot of the engraving.