The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-10-01 00:00:00

Liverpool will do his duty on this occasion ; but
we trust this concluding word of exhortation will

not be taken amiss.

We have a word to say to the general body of
the inhabitants of Liverpool in connection with
the formation of a Press Corps, and the duty
they owe to it. While the members of the Fourth
Estate are prepared to form a purely self-
supporting company of volunteers, is it right
that, in addition to their time and the personal
sacrifices and expenses unavoidably connected
with such a system of enrolment and training,
the whole burden of equipping and perfecting
a corps for the general good should be
thrown upon the individual few who are
young enough and spirited enough to undertake
the responsibility? In Manchester and in other
cities where Press Corps have been formed, the
public subscriptions offered towards their expenses
have been munificent in amount, and tendered
with cheerful alacrity. Why should not an
appeal for a similar purpose be made at cruet td
the gentlemen of Liverpool? We feel certain of
its perfect success. Out of the four or five
hundred members of the press and printing
professions in this town, it were easy to form a
company of gentlemen able and willing to bear
all expenses. But the more fortunate members
owe it to their less able brethren to adopt
arrangements which shall place all concerned
upon the same footing of equality, and to secure
terms of admission which shall put it in the
power of every honest and respectable person con-
nected with the press to join the Press Corps-
It is not to be expected that such facilities can
be afforded to the trade without public
support. On principle, therefore, it is right
and proper to solicit the pecuniary aid of
all who acknowledge the merits of the
Press, and the desirability of its members being
formed into a Volunteer Rifle Corps. If any
argument were necessary to establish the claims
of the Press Corps upon the public, we might
refer to the fact that the whole Volunteer move-
ment, as now organised, owes an inextinguishable
debt of gratitude to the Press. If the country
values highly this great self-defensive organisa-
tion, it ought not to withhold its acknowledg-
ments from those who have done more than any
other agency to defend it from adversaries, and,
by encouragement, criticism, and exhortation, to
urge it forward to its present highly satisfactory
state of popularity and prosperity. If this vie'
needs a word of enforcement, let us for a moment
suppose that the Press had so far mistaken its
duty as to have adopted a different course, and
opposed and ridiculed the Volunteers—will any
one be rash enough to say that the tide of public
opinion might not have been turned against it?
Even now, does not the efficiency and permanencY •
of the corps much depend upon the faithfulness
and loyalty of the Press ? We do not for a
moment contemplate such an error as probable,
even if possible. But does not the mere supposi-
tion bring out in stronger relief the extent of the
obligations under which the community generallY,
and the Volunteer cause in particular, lie to the
Press? What more fitting mode of manifesting
a sense of the service thus rendered to tlie State
by the Press, than by a public subscription to aid
in the successful and easy establishment of 5
Volunteer Corps, composed exclusively of mein"
hers of that profession, willing to give their time
and strength in augmentation of the great and
glorious army of English Volunteers ? We feel
assured that our merchant princes will only be
thankful for being afforded an opportunity °f
indicating their high sense of the value of the
public service rendered by the Press gene-
rally, and especially by the Press of Liver
pool; and we predict that the moment s.
public subscription list is opened it will
be filled up in a manner worthy of the
burgesses, and the object on behalf of which the
appeal is to be made. There ought to be no deli'
cacy- or hesitation in soliciting such aid ; and Nce
feel certain there will be none in responding to it.
In any view the subscription list will afford an
excellent opportunity of proving who are the
real friends of the Press in connection with this
great national movement.
This particular movement is but another riPPle
of the great tide that is steadily rising as e
natural bulwark and defence of our island hone'
Let none attempt to stem its progress, or sal
hitherto shalt thou come and ro further. its,
upward, onward course is irresistible. Let all
hail with cheerful huzzas every indication of its
universally permeating power and continua
deepening influence among all classes of the
community. We must never be content, or the
of the Volunteer mission as having been aeconr
plished, until every man in the country capable
of bearing arms shall have been enrolled in the
force, and drilled to perform his duty with rte.
sion and efficiency. The undertaking is a great
one, and not without serious difficulties and grOe.
responsibilities ; but the end to be attained is
worthy of the effort. We shall then dwell in
peace, free from tormenting and ruinous panics'
and our known internal strength and military
genius and organisation shall strike terror into
the hearts of tyrants and fillibustering pirates'
while our ancient supremacy as the foremost
nation in the world shall be proudly re-asserted'
and unequivocally maintained, before all peoPlee
of every kindred and tongue.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRANCE.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

PARIS, Sept. 29.
The strangest rumours are current her
respecting
the revolutionary tournune which
events are taking at Naples, and in the names 0
the famous demagogues who have come to jO,l
Mazzini in that capital. Nothing more wou`
now seem to be required to justify intervention
on the part of Victor Enimanuel and his army
the Neapolitan States, and to render it almost
popular in the estimation of European diploron"
tists. At the same time, I think and hope tiler°
is some exaggeration in these pictures' of anarchP
In fact, already it is reported in some quarters
that Garibaldi has restricted himself to demand'
much more moderate upon the Sardinian Govern"
ment than those which are stated to have been
made by him,
and that he no longer insists 01}
the retirement of Count Cavour, but
nierely.°,
Fanti and Farini, the former of whom was saln;
reason will,
sonic time ago, to have reigned. The voice 19'
it must be hoped, yet be listened to,
in order that the Dictator may not forfeit that
support of intelligent public opinion which has
hitherto so friendly supported him in his career'
Letters from Naples down to the 22nd contew,
no very full details of the military operation;
before Capua, but they agree in confirming t
account of the Garibaldians having received a cheo:
on the right bank of the Volturno. According t"
some accounts, the Neapolitans were not core"
manded on this occasion by General Bosco, J."
that general, it is said, who remained in Naplt°
after the withdrawal of the King, received in):
mediately afterwards his passports for abroad'
and has arrived in France on board the Quirinal,
which had on board also General Pianelli, tha
ex-War Minister in the Cabinet of Spinell!
Romano. Pianelli, who took refuge in the firs',
instance in Rome, was, when there, suspected
havinc, been bought over by Piedmont, and Nit
expelled by Antonelli at the very same time
Bosco was sent away from Naples by order of
Garibaldi. But on the other hand, accordingl
other and later despatches from Naples, Gen
Bosco is distinctly stated to have led a success
sortie against the Garibaldians on the 23111.
These contradictory statements show how ef;
tremely difficult it is at present to obtain accurate
information respecting events in this quarter
the present moment, and afford a warning which
ought not to be neglected against placing tro
much reliance on what we are asked
believe. Further, the despatches forwarded
from Gaeta to the Court of Rome, and pu t
lished in the Journal of _Rome, speak of ta
different actions having been fought befnii,
Capua, between the Royalists and the Garib._ e
dians, all, of course, to the advantage of
former—the first four came off on the 19thr...`a
front of the strong fortification of that placer
the last and most important, that of the 21q,,be
claimed by them as a brilliant victory. f
official journal does not give the names o
two generals of Garibaldi, .whom it states 10