The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-11-21 00:00:00

Narriagrs, an. glfittlyg.

Births, Marriages, and Deaths, forwarded for insertion, must
be properly authenticated with the name and address of th,
sender. he charge for the insertion of Births will be Biz-
Pence each.

MARRIAGES.
ilL,aolOtngendamnst:herye. 13th inst., at St. George's, Everton, by the Rev. C.
Etict ,
ofltp.reßs.elloti.gsntreetetLytoou3nigaersyt
Asohnh:flegtitteer I:finirll.
Geoignergtte,
Whitby, late of Thornton Hall, Cheshire.
On the 17th inst., at :Walton-on-the-Hill, by. the Rev. W.
,Gveioc:
George
eo
Thorpe
iTiohriprsek, ,ouf uncle of the
Cheshire.bride, Frank Wilkinson,
Esq., of the island of Madeira, to Dora, eldest daughter of the
supenntendent•regis-
trar, itthreowl9htihowin.st., at the office of the superb
third ..hill, Mr. John Emmanuel Williams to Helen
screw-steafrier daughterAdniral.of Mr. Ilugh Holland, of her Majesty's

DEATHS.
On the 7th inst., at his residence, Parliament-street, aged 63,
Mr. George Inger.
On the 17th inst., at her residence, Bootle, Isabella Tryphena,
wife of Saint Felix Tucker, of her Majesty's Customs.
On the 17th inst., at 94, Cornwall-street, Everton, Martha,
relict of the late Mr. John Calman, mariner, of this town.
On the 18th inst., suddenly, at Run, Mr. Samuel Morton, of
this town.

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Gaeta still holds out: and if we are to believe accounts
which reach us from well-informed quarters, it is likely
to do so for a considerable time longer unless the for-
tress is voluntarily surrendered. It is described by an
eye-witness as being now stronger than ever. The
front capable of being attacked on the land side does
not extend beyond 700 yards ; and it is defended by
works constructed or cut in the solid rock, armed with
three tiers of covered batteries, the upper tier being
mounted with rifled cannon. These batteries present a
total of about 300 pieces, whose lines of fire converge
on those points from whiCh alone the assailants must
make their attack.

Meanwhile, reactionary movements, as was to be
expected, have broken out on a considerable scale in
the Abruzzi, and, according to a statement in the Pays,
no less than five Neapolitan provinces are in a state of
siege, thereby furnishing additional difficulties and
labour for M. Farint in the task of union and confloii_
dation which he has undertaken.

A further invasion of Roman territories is stated to
have taken place on thg part of the Piedmontese troops,
arising, probably, out of the complications produced by
the presence in those territories of the various Neapo-
litan corps who have taken refuge there. The circum-
stance has been followed by another protest from Car-
dinal Antonelli, who must by this time have become
rather familiar with the composition of documents of
that nature.

" At the advanced age of 82," says the Paris corre-
spondent of the Globe, "in calm retirement at Malta,
Ruggiero Settimo had received a call from Garibaldi to
resume at Palermo the leadership he had held in 1848 :
King Victor Emmanuel has again summoned the veteran
patriot to the Viceroyalty of his native island." The
Italian mail of Monday brought that venerable noble-
man's reply to the Sovereign of United Italy, declining,
in dignified language, the honours intended for his
declining years. This Sicilian statesman was Prime
Minister so far back as 1812, under the constitutional
government which Lord William Bentinck established
in that island as the condition of British protection ;
but he,. as well as the Palermo parliament of that day,
were got rid of by the late King Ferdinand at the first
opportunity. Ruggiero emerged • again into activity in
1820, and, co-operating with General Pepe on the main-
land, he once more raised the standard of freedom in
Sicily, but again unsuccessfully. He remained prostrate
until 1848, when a third time he became instrumental
in his country's deliverance, preceding Garibaldi as
Dictator in Palermo. Then came the bombardment
of Messina, and the hordes of sanguinary Swiss let
loose by King Bomba on the island, followed by ten
years of tyranny and terrorism. For forty years, there-
fore, has the life of this one man been identified with
the existence of the Sicilian people. He rejoices to have
lived to witness the triumphant result of their struggles,
and with that satisfaction he is content.

King Victor has received and given suitable replies
to several Sicilian deputations, informing them that he
intends shortly to visit the island. It is understood that
his Majesty will leave Naples for Palermo to-morrow.
It is given out that Garibaldi, before he left the former
city for Caprera, issued the following announcement :
" The public is informed that I shall receive no letters at
Caprera unless they are prepaid.—G. GARIBALDI."
It is unpleasant to learn that our countrymen who

compose the Garibaldi-British Legion are universally
spoken of in terms the reverse of flattering, not in the
Finch journals alone, but also in all the more respect-
able German papers, whose bias is likely to be in favour
of, rather than against, the English. The Allgemeine
Zeitung has letter frOns the Neapolitan frontier,
which describes the British Legion as "execrable
soldiers," and &ceiling only in the storming of
poultry-yards and pig-stieS. " Their last expedi-
tion near Sant' Angelo (says the writer) Was
highly successful. They came back with upwards of
400 prisoners-50 pigs, and 400 fowls, ducks, &c."
The letter concludes with describing the terror of all
near them except the enemy. This is obviously an.
exaggerated picture, but the London papers of yesterday
evening, print a copy of the letter sent to Colonel Peard
by the officers of his regiment, in. which on the-ground,
among others, that there "is not that implicit con-
fidence between the brigade and its head, without
which no regiment of Englishmen can exist," they
call upon that offiser to resign' his command. Colonel
Peard had not complied with the reqUest at the date of
the despatch containing the letter addreised to him by
his officers, but theme was no doubt that he would be
forced to do so.

The Belgian .3fonitear says_:—" Several journals re-
cently affirmed that Prussia had abolished the formality
of passports, and the necessary inference from this is
that travellers have no need of any to go into that
country. But that is an error, against which it is im-
portant to warn the public. The verification of pass-
ports has only been suppressed on the frontiers by the
Prussian government, but the laws relative to such
documents have in no respect, been set aside. Travellers
must then be provided with passports en rtgle in order
to travel in Prussia."

The Austrian Government having made the fortresses
composing the Quadrilateral as strong as possible, has
sent the army into winter quarters. It is reported,
however, that an Austrian corps of observation is to be
sent into Transylvania.
The further advices received regarding the wreck of
the Donna Isabel, Brazilian war corvette, state that out
of 27 officers on board, 23 were lost, and upwards of 100
seamen. Three lieutenants, six midshipmen, the purser,
and 93 of the crew were saved. The vessel is reported
to have gone to pieces. The Moors behaved well, and
the survivors were carried by a British vessel of war to
Tangiers, and there placed under the protection of Mr.
Drummond Hay. The Minister here has ordered the
Brazilian Vice-consul at Gibraltar to do everything in
his power to succour the survivors; and with that view,
and to examine into the causes of the calamity and
recover the guns, Admiral Grenfell, the Brazilian Con-
sul-general, will, it is said, proceed at once to the spot.
The disaster occurred about 8 o'clock p.m., on the 11th
instant.. • _

Intelligence has been received at Lloyd's, from St.
Petersburg, that the river is full of ice, and that com-
munication with Cronstadt is stopped.

Reading has undergone a contest between a Radical
and an independent Liberal, and the seat has been
gained by Sergeant ' Pigott, whose bidding was the
higher of the two. A vacancy for Ripon has been
caused by the death of Mr. Warre.

A fearful collision of two goods trains took place at
Guide Bridge, near Ashton-under-Lyne, about half-past
two o'clock on Sunday morning. It appears a goods
train belonging to the London and North-Western
Railway Company was shunting at the Guide Bridge
Station, when a goods train belonging to• the Man-
chester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Company came
in collision with it, and the crash and destruction
was most fearful. The Manchester, Sheffield, and
Lincolnshire Company's engine was, to a considerable
depth, literally buried in the soil, whilst the damage to
the North Western Company's engine was only slight,'
but many waggons were smashed almost to atoms, and
both lines were blocked up for a considerable time.
One of the guards was happily only injured in a slight
degree, the firemen being both saved by jumping from
their engines. The collision took place in consequence
of one of the distant signals not being shown, but whe-
ther from negligence, or being fast with the frost, is not
at present known. The cause of this collision will be
the subject of strict inquiry.
Avery extensive counterfeiting operation has been
brought to light at Lebanon, Indiana, in which the
cashier and several others connected with the Boone
County Bank, in that place, are concerned. It is sup-
posed that they have circulated from $300,000 to
$500;000 in counterfeit bills on that institution. The
spurious and the genuine notes are from the same plate,
with the names of the auditor and registrar forged on
the former. The presidenta the bank had fled, from
which circumstance it is inferred that he is deeply
implicated in the transactions.
The restoration of the fine old cathedral at Llandaff
is rapidly approaching completion, and is being carried
out in the most perfect manner. In order to secure
efficiency, the Dean and Chapter have resolved to pur-
chase a powerful organ, at a cost of nearly £l,OOO, in
the construction of which Sir Frederic Gore Ousley,
Regius Professor of Music at Oxford, has been consulted.
This venerable edifice is nearly restored after many years
of labour, and at a cost of many thousands of pounds.
We have to record the death of Sir David Maxwell,
Bart., of Camesmore, Kirkcudbrightshire, at the ad-
vanced age of 87 years. He is succeeded in the baron-
etcy by his son William, who was born in 1809, and
who is a deputy-lieutenant of Kirkcudbright.
The decease of Lady Goldsmid, widow of Sir Isaac
Lionel Goldsmid, Bart., is announced. Her ladyship has
been in declining health for some time past, and especially
since the decease of her husband last year. She was
the daughter of Mr. Abraham Goldsmid, of Morden, in
Surrey, and married Sir Isaac in the year 1801.
The question raised some time back as to the respon-
sibity of bankers in paying cheques drawn to order on
the signature of a person pretending to hold a procura-
tion, is likely to remain without a definitive settlement.
The facts which induced public attention to the matter
were as follows :—An action was brought against
the Bank of England to recover the amount of a cheque
drawn payable to order, and endorsed by a person
Purporting to sign by promotion from the payee,
but which procuration was denied. The claim was
based upon the view that the 19th section of the Act
16th and 17th Victoria, chap. 59, which protects bankers
from responsibility in paying cheques
,purporting to be
endorsed by the payee, did not extend to cheques pur-
porting to be endorsed by another person by pro-
curation. This action came on for trial at the
London sittings in July last, when Mr. Baron
Martin held, without argument, that the enactment
referred to extended as well to cases of endorsement
by procuration as to those purporting to be by
the payee in person, the object of this proceeding
being to obtain a decision of the full Court upon the
question of law in the current term. It appears, how-
ever, that the plaintiff has decided not to carry the case
further, and that the law must, therefore, remain in its
present unsatisfactory state. At the same time it might
be remarked, that few persons can doubt that the immu-
nity to the bankers conferred by the Act was intended
to be complete. The clause which, in contradiction to
the entire spirit of the statute law of the kingdom,
exempts bankers from a liability to which all the rest
of the community are bound to conform, furnishes the
worst example of petty class legislation witnessed in
recent times ; but so long as it is permitted to remain,
it will be advisable for the public to regard it in all its
stringency.
Mr. John Bright was present last Right at the annual
soiree of the Wakefield Mechanics' Institute, which was
held in the Corn Exchange, in that town. A summary
of the lengthened oration delivered by him on this
occasion will be found elsewhere.