The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-06-14 00:00:00

THE DAY'S NEWS.

The House of Commons sat but a short time
yesterday, and was exclusively occupied in con-
sideration of the Mines Regulation and Inspection
Bill. This provides, amongst other clauses, that
no child under twelve years of age should be
employed in mines till they could produce a
certificate of their ability to read and write. An
amendment was proposed on this, changing twelve,
to thirteen years ; but Government refusing to
give way, it was negatived by a considerable
majority. The other business was disposed of,
and the House then adjourned.
From present appearances, Garibaldi 'may rest
for awhile upon the trophies which he has won ;
and the fate of Sicily will be determined by
diplomacy rather than by the sword. There can
be no doubt that Louis Napoleon will cheerfully
accept the power of meditation which has been
offered tohim. The views which he may take will be
certain to reveal some part of his policy on other
European questions. In the meantime it looks
well that the interview which he will accord to the
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arrangements, take ph& in the presence of Lord
Cowley, and the representatives of Austria and Sar-
dinia. The Court of Naples has been greatly hum-
bled, and we now learn that Francis 11. is ready to
engage himself to grant a liberal constitution on
the broadest basis for Sicily, to be also applied to
the whole kingdom. This, if we may credit the
Palermo correspondent of the Times, is all that
Garibaldi requires, if sufficient guarantees,
endorsed by England, be given that the King
will begin a true Italian policy. Sardinia, on her
part, is praying the French Emperor not to
interfere, but to carry out the same policy which
was followed in respect to Tuscany, Parma,
Modena, and the Legations. Several English
men-of-war have been ordered to Naples.
Increased importance is attached to the forth-
coming meeting of Louis Napoleon with the
Prince Regent of Prussia and the other German
sovereigns. • The true interest of France lies in
peace,. " Then why," asks the Times, " should
this interview fill statesmen with speculations and
Cabinets with conjectures ? The explanation is
so notorious that it would be mere affectation to
dissemble the truth. People fear that it imports
some new disturbances; that it is the first act in
a new European drama; that Prussia will be
sounded about the Rhenish provinces as Sardinia
was sounded about Savoy ; that the temptation of
equivalents may be again forthcoming, and that
possibly some fresh annexation may ultimately
follow a fresh conference and a fresh campaign."

The foolish fellows who are proceeding from
Ireland to swell the ranks of the Papal army
would do well to consider the kind of gratitude
which they may expect for the over-zealous offer
of their services. Among the soldiers recruited
from Belgium for the Pontifical army were
many non-commissioned officers who had
obtained honourable dismissal from the
service. Promises were held out to them
of higher pay and higher grades, and it was on
this distinct understanding that they gave up the
position they held. It scarcely need be said that,
on their arrival in Rome, their demands for the
fulfilment of these promises were contemptuously
rejected, and they were even refused to be allowed
to rank as non-commissioned officers. They re-
fused to submit to this degradation, and the
result is that they now find themselves without
resources, in a city where they are strangers, and
where it is treason even to say a word against a
corrupt and degrading government, '

The Adriatic, from New York, which arrived
on Tuesday at Southampton, brings intelligence
of a frightful massacre committed by Indians in
' Carson Valley, on the route to California. A
party of 105 volunteers, under Major Ormsby,
were attacked on the 12th ultimo ,by a
band of hostile Indians, and after a bloody
fight the former were compelled t 9
retreat. Of the entire party but thirty-eight
reached the settlement, though it is possible some
of the missing were subsequently found by the
searching parties sent out. Major Ormsby was
anion the number killed.
very important report, and which will
occasion great discussion, was issued yesterday
by the Royal Commissioners on our National
Defences. In the opinion of the commissioners,
the introduction of steam has, in a defensive
point of view, diminished the value of our Channel
fleet, and they express the opinion, which will
provoke great controversy, that neither our fleet,
our standing army, nor our volunteer forces, nor
even the three combined, 9an be relied on as
sufficient in theraselYes for the security of the
kingdom against foreign invasion. It is vital
that, above all other places, our dockyards
should be specialty protected ; and the com-
missioners recommend that, at a total esti-
mated post _of nearly twelve millions sterling,
fertificatiom should be erected •at Ports:-