The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1861-01-22 00:00:00

BRITISH AND FOREIGN MANUFACTURES

has been added every
ENGLISH AND FOREIGN NOVELTY,
And the greatest care has been exercised in the SELECTION
of the GOODS, to SECURE TILE BEST QUALITY at the very
Lowest Prices.
Especial attention is requested to the large Assortment of

FANCY ARTICLES,
including
PARISIAN NOVELTIES, FANS, CASKETS,

SOUVENIRS, BOUQUET HOLDERS,

and the NEW STYLE of
HEAD ORNAMENT
in the greatest variety.
AN EXTENSIVE STOCK OF

FRENCH DECORATED CHINA,
ALABASTER FIGURES,
PARIAN DITTO.
A Splendid STOCK of

BOHEMIAN, ENGLISH, AND FRENCH GLASS VASES,

LUSTRES, &c.
The unequalled Stock of

DRESSING-CASES, DESKS, WORK-BOXES,

BAGATELLE TABLES, &C.,
manufactured on the premises, will be found complete in

all its branches.
The assortment of

;ENGLISH AND FOREIGN TOYS, GAMES,

DISSECTIONS, &c.,
is replete with every novelty, and includes a great variety of
ORNAMENTS FOR CHRISTMAS TREES.

W. IL TOOKE hopes, by his unceasing personal attention,
to secure the continuance of that confidence and support
which have hitherto been so kindly extended to him.

OLD POSTOFFICE-BUILDINGS,

LIVERPOOL.

NEWS OF THE DAY.

We now learn that the following are the pro-
posals made to the Frankfurt Diet in the sitting
of the 17th instant, relative to the Holstein ques-
tion.. The United Committee proposed that the
Diet should decree:-1. That the financial patent
of the 25th September, 1859, and all the
laws consequent thereupon, especially the
financial law of the 3rd July, 1860, are illegal
as long as they have not received the
sanction of the Estates of Holstein-Lauenburg.
2. To call for eXplanations from the Royal
Ducal Government respecting the fulfilment of
the prorisorium to be established according to
the Federal. Decree of the Bth March, 1860.
3. To allow a delay of six weeks .to the Royal
Ducal Government, after the expiration of which
the decree of the 12th August, 1858 (preparations
for execution), shall be resorted to. The Assembly
decreed that the deliberation and vote should
take place within three weeks from the above date.
Meanwhile there is a rumour that England,
France, and Russia are engaged in considering
the best means for solving the question between
Germany and Denmark by amicable means.
If all the three Powers be sincere in their desire
to effect this object, their united exertions can
hardly fail of success. General La Marmora also,
it is said, goes to Berlin on a special mission from
his Sovereign to William I.
The Austrian Government has suddenly
adopted a bold and energetic line of action with
respect to the constitution and proceedings of the
Hungarian Comitats, which seems, to a great
extent, warranted by the rash and irregular
proceedings of those bodies. At the same time,
it is not unreasonable to infer that the altered
state of European affairs has had something to
do with the change of policy.
The most important item in the Indian
intelli-
gence by the last Bombay mail is, that the vexed
question of adoption, which has been so produc-
tive of disaffection in the Indian. Peninsula, ever
since doubts as to the right of those natives who
had no issue to nominate any person they chose
as their heir, were suggested by the Government
of the late Lord Dalhousie, has been ceded. This
right of adoption has at length been explicitly
conferred of new upon the natives.
The advices received by the Canada, which
arrived in the river yesterday, with New York
dates to the Bth inst., add little that is new to
the gravity of the situation as described in the
immediately preceding accounts from America.
Several proposals for the adjustment of differences,
and a string of propositions with a view to a
compromise, are published in the New York
journals; but nothing definite has followed upon
those attempts at accommodation, and the secession
movement continues to make rapid progress.
Shots, it is alleged, 'haw, already kern exchanged
between the Government and the Southerners;
but owing to the paucity of trained fighting men
on both sides, no great harm has yet been done
by one party to the other, We refer to some ex-
tracts we have given elsewhere from the New
York Herald.

Sir De Lacy Evans and Mr. Vincent Scully
have sent copies to the newspapers of letters
which they have returned in reply to the finan-
cial reform circular transmitted by some of the
Radical members of the House of Commons to
Lord Palmerston. Sir De Lacy Evans concurs
in the desirableness of a revision of the national
taxation and expenditure, with a view to eco-
nomy; but, he says, " I entirely dissent from its
being safe or expedient to disarm this country. I

am not so confident as you appear to be of the
maintenance of peace in Europe, or of the unag-
gressive intentions of the Emperor Napoleon."
Moreover, he disapproves of private communica-
tions to a prime minister intended to influence, by
anticipation, public legislation. Mr. Scully also
thinks that the reduction of the expenditure
cannot be effected through private addresses.
Parliament, he thinks, "should at once insist
that, unless in exceptional cases, all the annual
estimates should be submitted at an early period,
instead of towards the close of each session. The
next step should be to appoint a select committee,
and ascertain in what respects the national expen-
diture can be reduced without detriment to the
public service. Notices to the above effect stand
now in my name, but I should prefer to see them
in charge of influential members."

A meeting to promote the repeal of the hop
duty was held at Canterbury on Saturday. The
various speakers, including Mr. Beresford Hope,
Mr. Dodson, M.P., and Lord Holmesdale, M.P.,
contended strongly that the tax was unjust in
principle and peculiarly unfair in its operation.
Mr. Hope explained that in order to relieve the
Central Association from the imputation of
desiring protection they had combined in their
agitation the repeal of the import duty upon
foreign hops, with the abolition of the duty upon
home produce.

The appeal from the conviction by a police
magistrate, under the act Oth Geo. IV., c. 175,
sec. 3, of a journeyman joiner (William Walsby),
who, with his fellow-workmen, in the employ
of Philip Anley, had signed a paper requiring
their master to dismiss two workmen who
had signed a declaration, threatening, in case
of non-compliance, to leave his service in
a body in the course of the day, was heard
by the Court of Queen's Bench on Saturday.
The argument in the case was, whether this was

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRANCE.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, Jan. 20, 1861.

In spite of the warlike language of the King'
of Prussia, and of the warlike tone assumed by
the Committee of the Federal Diet, it seems to be
firmly believed in certain circles here that the
conflict between Denmark and Germany will not
lead to a war. It is asserted that the Cabinet of
St. Petersburg has expressed its complete disap-
proval of the designs attributed to Prussia
against Denmark, and is about to express that
opinion strongly in a circular to be sent to its
representatives at foreign Courts ; and that
Denmark is prepared to make certain reason-
able concessions, which Prussia will be in
a manner forced to accept as the ground for
not proceeding to extremities. There are some
very curious details given in the New Prussian
Gazette, relative to the ceremonial observed at
the distribution of colours on Friday last, in front
of the tomb of the Great Frederick, to the newly-
formed regiments. The colours were nailed in a
formal manner to the staffs. Each regiment was
represented at this ceremony by a deputation of
its members, and the whole of the deputations
were drawn up in a large apartment in the castle,
in presence of the Queen, and the Princes and
Princesses of the Royal Family. As their
Majesties drew near to each standard, the com-
manding officer of the regiment presented a
hammer, the King drove in the first nail, the
Queen the second, and so with all the colours
presented by the deputations.

It is mentioned that the Polish movement,
which originated in the territories of Russia and
Austria, has begun to gain ground in Prussian
Poland. Two journals which are published at
Kulim, one of which made its appearance for the
first time only the other day, do not hesitate to
advocate these aspirations after nationality. The
Danzig Journal, in order to show the spirit mani-
fested by these national organs, mentions that
they inserted the announcement of the death of
the late King of Prussia among their miscellane-
ous intelligence.
The latest piece of intelligence I have had
respecting the proposed purchase of Venetia, is
that the Venetian emigrants view it with the
greatest repugnance. This opinion has been
openly and generally expressed in the salons of
the lovely Countess G., in Turin, which are the
rendezvous of the .most distinguished of the
enzigrs. The Venetians, they say, desire to
acquire their freedom by their valour, their
sacrifices, nay, even by their patience, and not
with gold. This feeling will meet with many
sympathisers.
A Toulon letter in the Mcssager du 31 di of
the 17th says :

Toulon begins to assume a very animated appearance,
owing to the presence in its harbour of the squadron of
evolution. There are at this moment in the Roads
eight war steamers, two large steam-frigates of the first
rank, La Foudre and La Gloire, three large screw-
frigates, three large steam transports, and four steam
corvettes, forming a total of twenty ships of war, ready
to put to sea at a moment's notice. This list is exclusive
of a considerable number of men-of-war, which are
under repair in the harbour. The steam corvette of the
first class, the Duchayla, is expected daily at Suez from
China, with Baron le Gros.
lotion a— jO
the Piedmontese Government is about to adopt
most energetic means for the suppression of the
insurrection in the Abruzzi, which has at length
gained those parts of the States of the Church
bordering on the Neapolitan provinces. Rein-
forcements have been embarked at Genoa for
Reggio and for Catantaro, in Calabria; and it is
said that the Government is determined forthwith
to take complete military possession of the entire
kingdom as the only effectual means of quenching
disaffection.
The Bourse continues inanimate. Speculators
are in dread of they know not what, and business
is stagnant. bate was down as low as 61f. 15c.

ILLNESS or Mn. GEORGE DOLT.—A very painful
rumour prevailed yesterday on 'Change of the death of
Mr. George Holt. The statement was, fortunately,
without foundation, but we grieve to hear that this
much respected gentleman continues seriously ill—so ill,
indeed, since Saturday, that there are but faint hopes of
his recovery.

Mr. Booth, Mr. Lancaster, and Mr. Knowles, a depu-
tation from the Lancashire and Cheshire Coal Association,
with Mr. Hall, Parliamentary agent, had an interview
with the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson on Saturday, at
the office of the board of trade,
LORD STANLEY, M.P., AND THE PREVALENT DIS-
TRESS.—Lord Stanley, M.P., has forwarded £5O for the
relief of the poor of King's Lynn. His lordship's col-
league in the representation of the borough, Mr. J.
Gurney, M.P., has forwarded a. similar sum.
Yesterday afternoon a quantity of ladies' work, which
was left from the bazaar held in the Assembly-rooms in
September last, in aid of St. Peter's Presbyterian Church,
was sold in the class-room of the church. The sale was
continued until evening.
The Rev. J. P. Chown, who is so favourably known
in this town as a public lecturer, will, to-night, deliver
a narative of a recent tour through, Italy, Sicily, and
Malta, in the schoolroom under Myrtle-street Chapel.
The Rev. H. S. Brown is announced to preside.

LITERARY AND PHILOSOrRICAL SOCIETY. The
Seventh Ordinary Meeting of the Liverpool Literary
and Philosophical Society was held at the Royal Insti-
tution last evening, and was attended by a large number
of members, amongst whom we observed William
Brown, Esq. A paper was read by David Walker,
M.D., F.R.G.S., on "Aurora Borealis." Mr. Dobson
also read a paper, entitled "Contributions to Nautical
Science." The chair was occupied by Mr. C. H. Clark.
THE MARKETS COMMITTEE.—The weekly meeting of
this committee was held yesterday at the Town Hall.
Mr. Ridley presided, and the other members present
were—Messrs. Shimmin, Houghton, Nickson, Johnson,
Haydock, Crellin, Barton, and Rogers. The seizures of
bad and diseased meat durinc, the week amounted to
only 95 lbs. From the cash' returns submitted it
appeared that the receipts from the markets, &c., for
the four months commencing on the 31st of September,
had been £6,057 Bs. 7d., against £5,648 4s. 3d. in the
former year. The receipts for the week had been
£246 7s. 9d., and the wages £42 9s. 3d. The chairman
called attention to a motion of which he had given
notice as to the insufficient accommodation in Cleveland-
square Market, and the unseemly appearance of the huts.
Ile thought they could not do better than extend the
shed to the southward, and have the huts removed. He
should be prepared on a future occasion to submit plans
and estimates,
Sand with the permission of the com-
mittee the motion might stand over for the present. Some
conversation ensued upon the subject, and it was agreed
that in the meantime the committee should personally
visit and inspect both Pownall-square and Cleveland-
square markets. This was the whole of the public
business.