The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-10-08 00:00:00

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MONDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1860.

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Garibaldi's successful repulse of the Royal troops on
the Volturno is confirmed by telegrams subsegoently
received. It would seem that the Neapolitans, embol-
dened by their unexpected success at Cajazzo, and by
the inactivity of Garibaldi, whose desire to fight a
pitched battle with the enemy had been overruled by a
Council of War, crossed the Volturno, and attacked the
entrenched positions held by the Garibaldians at Mad-
daleni, which were defended by the troops under the
command of Bixio, and also those at Caserata, which
were defended by Sistori's Brigade. Both these places
are within fifteen miles only of Naples. The assailants
were driven back, routed, and surrounded, with the
loss, according to some estimates, of 1,000 killed and
wounded, and of an entire brigade, consisting of 2,000
men, who were made prisoners. The losses must have
been very considerable on both sides. The Garibaldians
admit the estimated number of 600 killed and wounded,
and it is likewise stated that the Anglo-Sicilian bat-
talion lost the whole of its officers, owing, doubtless, to
their heroic efforts to encourage the young heroes of
which this battalion is composed.
After their sanguinary repulse, the remainder of the
Neapolitan army fell back in the direction of Capua and
Gaeta, with the -view of covering the approaches to both
given out that Francis 11. and
these places ; and it is
his brothers are determined to renew the fight at the
earliest moment. This battle on the Volturno is the
first serious combat since the battle of Calatafimi, in
which the Dictator has been opposed to a regular army,
acting upon
a definite plan of operations, but a complete
victory has again
crowned his arms. By it the condi-
tions of the struggle between his volunteers and the
royal army are very considerably changed—the Dictator
can now afford to wait for the Piedmontese, but Francis
the Second can neither afford to maintain his position,
nor to retire, except to shut himself up in Gaeta. This
last triumph has converted into waste paper all the
various diplomatic money made by the Neapo-
litan ambassador at Turin, and also by the envoys in
in that city of several of the Continental Cabinets, with
the view of obtaining from the Piedmontese government
explanations of the extraordinary movements of troops
on the Neapolitan frontier, whilst the two countries are
not at war with each other, and there exists no just
pretext for hostilities between them. "Eleven millions
of Italians," exclaims the Speaker of the Sardinian Se-
nate, "ask to be made part of the Italian kingdom, and

the allocution," says the Globe's Paris correspondent,
"have given downright offence, and two separate articles
in to-day's (Friday's) Constitutionnel manifest the dis-
pleasure of the French eiecutive," But may not this be the
result which was intended to be brut lit about by both
parties ? It appears that the Anti de id Rel4iion, dflef
it had commenced the publication of the anociitiOV; itiag
obliged to stop it ; hitt the prohibition having iieka
reviewed by the stipetiof authorities, the interdiction was
removed, and the issnod of the paper was resumed.
There is a talk of a diplomatic circular from XL
Thouvenel, in which he*ill pansi4i tevkvi recent events
in Italy, and declare vOthold ifithdratring her
synipathy with Piedrriont, the impetial govenment can
guarantee nothing more thin Lombardy ht east of ari
attack by Austria. 'Thai next
A special diplomatic agent has been despatched from
Vienna into the Turkish provinCe of Bosnia, to report
on the state of that country. It is, a vety ext. raodinary
proceeding that a State in this way busies itself tibedi
the interior affairs .of a neighbouring state. It altdOki
seems as if the old project of giving Bosnia to Austria
in exchange for her Italian provinces was once more on
the tapir. The Austrian Government is energetically
continuing its preparations against attack on every vul-
nerable pohit of the empire:
We are promised an early pacification of the disturbed
districts in S'Ytia, but the promise is inlaid on the feet
that Military netiMi on the part of the Freud! eipedi,
tionary forte, is about to succeed th 6 moral irdimened
which has hitherto been eierdie ed by the troeps.
The last accounts from,ltaly are fif satisfactory;
and the despatch to Palermo of a Piedmont** fords had
been indispensible to the security of public order. the
Sicilians cannot be expected all at once to either knoti
how to govern or to be governed.
Lord Stanley has promised to address the members of
the Warrington Mechanics' Institution, at a dinner to
be held on Saturday, the 27th inst.
The West -Kent Registration proceeds satisfaetorily,
the total Conservative gain up to the present time being
no less than 30.
The number of persons who have suffered punishment
in Damascus up to the last date is 70 hanged, 115 shot,
147 sentenced to hard labour for life, 248 banished, 186
sentenced to hard labour for a term, making a total of
766, besides 83 condemned to death by default, liable
to be killed without further trial, and those who are in
prison.

A Vienna letter says :—" Large quantities of grain
are still purchased for English firms in Hungary, which
is here considered a proof that the harvest in England
is likely to be a very poor one. Ten days or a fortnight
ago but few orders were received from England to pur-
chase wheat, but one of the principal corn-factors yes-
terday told me that the demand is now almost as great
as it was three weeks or a month since. The crop of
hops is middling, being better in quality than in the
quantity."
The authorities at Whitehall have had under their
serious consideration the necessity of building a further
number of iron armour-clad ships ; and although we
believe nothing definitive has as yet been resolved upon
as to the exact plans which are to be used in their con-
struction, we have reason to know that several of these
ships will be laid down. It is further proposed that one
of these shall be built at Chatham Dockyard. We
shall, consequently, be in a position to judge as to the
respective merits of the work performed in public and
private establishments.
There is very little probability of the Great Eastern
making another voyage .during the present year, and it
is certain she will not be in a position to sail, as
was officially announced shortly after her return from
America, for New York on the 17th of the present
month. The tides have not permitted the ship to
be moved off the gridiron, and even if the itext.
" springs" should give a sufficient water, there will
be no attempt to float her off. Visitors to Milford will
have opportunities for seeing the great ship. idle in the
noble haven for the next six months at least. Captain
Vine Hall, Mr. Thomas Bold, the manager ; and Mr.
M'Lennan, the engineer, have been dismissed; and
but for the presence of Mr. Davies, the mate, and about
a dozen men, the Great Ship might be called the
"abandoned." The officers of the shipping department
of the Board of Trade have, it is stated, withdrawn or
suspended the certificate to the ship ; and it is stated
that a sum of .£28,000 will be required for repairs, &c.,
before the ship will be able to proceed to sea. It is but six
months since an additional sum of £lOO,OOO was raised as
preference capital, carrying 17f, per cent. dividend. The
last call of 2s. 6d. per share is now in course of being
made ; but the liabilities, it is stated, exceed the sum to
be raised by this instalment. Of the £lOO,OOO sub-
scribed, £40,000, with interest, was required to pay off
the mortgage before the ship could leave Southampton ;
upwards of £30,000 was expended in the contracts for
getting the ship ready for sea. There were some press-
ing liabilities to be discharged, and there are some
claims which are still pending in arbitration. Over
and above this preference stock there is the further
demand of £28,000, and the disputed claim—LlB,ooo
of Mr. Scott Russell. In an engineering point of
view the Great Eastern has satisfied the conditions of
its lamented, engineer and designer; but, like many
other of the grand conceptions of the late Mr. Brunel,
the result has been obtained at an enormous cost, and
by the ruin, it is to be feared, of many who have em-
barked in the undertaking. Nothing has yet trans-
pired as to the mode by which the directors hope, or
expect, to be able !to raise additional capital; - but it
appears highly possible that another generation of
shareholders will yet be appealed to to save the country
= from the national disgrace which would be the conse-
quence of the complete failure of the Great Ship.

FUNERAL OF THE LATE MR. JAMES

ROBERTSON.

On Saturday last the remains of this lamented gen-
tleman were conveyed to their final resting place, at the
Cemetery, Smithdown-lane, amidst every possible demon-
strations of respect and lamentation. The deceased
gentleman was well-known. In the sphere in which be
moved, he was esteemed and respected; by the poorer
classes he was venerated, and his loss to the town will
be deeply felt by all who had the privilege of acting
under him in the administration of local affairs. The
funeral took place at ten o'clock in the morning. Peel-
street, in which he resided, was thronged with persons
of every grade, anxious to chew the last tribute of res-
pect to the departed, and the greatest grief was mani-
fested upon every countenance. The body having been
placed in the hearse, five mourning coaches, containing
the relatives and immediate friends of the deceased, with
a number of private carriages, followed. This mournful
cortege was also escorted by several companies of riflemen,
who attended to mark their sense of the efforts which
the late Mr. Robertson displayed in promoting the
success of the Volunteer movement. They numbered
about 200, consisting of 120 members of the 19th
(Scottish) Company Lancashire Rifles, in command
of Captain Maxwell ; a detachment from the 63rd
Lancashire (Toxteth-park) Rifles, in charge of Cap-
tain Sim ; and a detachment of the 71st Lanca-
shire (Scottish Highland) Rifles, in charge of Captain
Scott. They were accompanied by the band of the
Second Lancashire Rifle Battalion, conducted by Mr. G•
W. Phillips. The riflemen were in full dress, but only
wore their side-arms, for the deceased, who was chair-
man of the Executive Committee of the Scottish (19th)
Compaen was not an " effective" member, and military
rules proscribed the bearing of arms under such circum-
stances. The band played the Dead March from Saul,
and the riflemen, marching to slow time, headed the
funeral procession. As the melancholy cortege wound
along the quiet country-road which leads from Toxteth-
park to the Cemetery, and the subdued strains of music
rose and fell in the pleasant morning air, it was a sad
commentary on the uncertainty of life, and there were
many tearful eyes among the spectators who lined the sides
of the road, or stood in knots at different points of the route.
The funeral procession proceeded by the way of tillet-
lane to the cemetery in Smithdown-lane, where it was met
by the Mayor, T. D. Anderson, Esq.; Chas. Turner, Egg
Aldermen Woodruff and Parker, with a large number
of the members of the corporation ; Mr. J. S. Alpo,
the chairman of the Toxteth-park Board of Health, and
several gentlemen belonging to that Board, and al°,
several of the guardians for that union. The deceased
was for many years a member of the Watch Committee,
in which capacity he rendered great services to the
town ; and as a mark of respect, upwards of 250 of the