The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-11-15 00:00:00

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Beyond the few lines which will be found elsewhere,
no additional tidings whatever respecting the Hero,
with the Prince of Wales on board, were received up to
a late hour this morning.
Several of the Turin journals have announced the
departure of Francis It. and his family from Gaeta, but
the fact is not confirmed. It is said, on French autho-
rity, that His Majesty still possesses an army of 15,000
men, which is sufficient, in a military point of view,
for the defence of the place ; and that nothing certain
is known respecting the later resolittions of the Prince.
A contradiction is likewise given in the same quarter
to the statements of the Mercantile Courier of Genoa, in
which the approaching departure from Rome of the
French army of occupation is announced. It is explained
that the French troops will remain " near" the Holy
Father so long as his security shall call for their pre-
sence in Italy ; but as to when that call is likely to
cease, and as tei what other employment will be found
for the troops when such shall be the case, we are, as
before, left entirely in the dark.
Our Foreign News to-day is, for the season so to
speak, unusually meagre, one of the most surprising
items being an authoritative confirmation of the announce-
ment of our Paris correspondent, that the French
Empress, who, as is known, is connected by the mother's
side with the Dumfries-shire family of Kilpatrick, has set
off on a visit of a strictly private character, to Scotland.
It is stated that her Majesty will, for a short time, be
the guest of the Duke of Hamilton, at Hamilton Palace.
The Slack suggests that the French Government must
by this time have formed a just idea of the very slight
influence which its great condescension to the episcopal
bench and the clergy in general has produced on that body•
The language employed by many of the French prelates in
their late pastorals on the affairs of Rome it considers to
be a convincing proof of what it asserts ; and the infer-
ence which it desires to be drawn from its observatimis
evidently is, that the French government should yield
to the clerical party as little as possible. It says._" The
prelates whom we regarded as the most prudent have
allowed themselves to be led away by the torrent, and
have imitated their pious brethren. The Archbishop of
Bordeaux has, in his turn, issued a political manifesto.
We will not mention each of the expressions which
offend us. You denounce the episcopacy,' exclaims
our adversaries; `you desire liberty, but only for
yourselves ; you endeavour to stifle the voice which
comes from the altar." We confine ourselves by say-
ing that the Government, which since its installation
has had so much and such disastrous consideration
for the clergy and for the Princes of the Church,
must be now edified as to their real disposition.
It may easily see with what perfidy of language
France and Piedmont are held up to the execration of
the ultramontaues of all countries. We seriously ask,
cannot the clergy pray for the dead without ostenta-
tiously multiplying pastoral letters and circulars ? Can
they not do honour to the memory of those whom they
regret without exciting the hatred and contempt of all
citizens who make the question of the temporal power
independent of religion ? The Archbishop of Bordeaux,
after having given this pledge to his violent brother-
hood, will, perhaps, on reflection, think that he has
something better to do, as a Prince of the Roman
Catholic Church, than to attack France and Italy, even ,