The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1861-01-07 00:00:00

heavier than a rope of the same dimensions, along
which; thirty different communications may
simultaneously pass without collision or confusion.
The fourth and last, yet by no means the least
important part of these discoveries, lies in the
fact that the wire-threads of these electric cables
can easily be made available for private use, and
just as in the case of gas or water, any person
may have a Wire laid on for his private and special
convenience. All private offices; it is expected,
will hate the Wires laid on, Mlt. REUTER has
already connected his offices in raisbury-square
and the Royal Exchange by these wires, and
applications have been made to the inventors by
a large number of the merchants in Glasgow and
Liverpool for being stipplied vvith these private
electric telegraphs between their different estab-
lishments:

Not only may any person haft a telegraph of
his own, but by this new plan he can work it as
accurately as he can write, though, of course, not
quite so rapidly. No batteries charged with cor-
rosive acids are required for the generation of the
electric fluid. The extremities of the wire are
attached to copper and zinc, buried in the earth,
and these; With the Wires coiled in connection
with the Magnet, dit all that is required to pro-
duce the necessary electro-inagnetisitt for working
the telegraph; In order to excite the magnets, a
small handle attached to the apparatus is turned,
aiid this piitS in Motion biindles or cores of
soft iron, around wiiicil is coiled sortie hundred
yards or more of the fine insulated Witti like
fine silk upon a bobbin. The machinery,
which is simply that of turning round a small
handle, might be wrought by a chili The
apparatus for working it is not larger than a lady's
Orditiaty *oilbok: When acettstnifted to its use,
as many as a hundred letters of the alphabet may
be transmitted in a minute: Sneh an instrument,
we believe; 'fig used by the Freiich ill the late
Italian Canipaign ; and at Solferino it rendered
them most important service. The invention is
one of the happiest yet made to popularise the
electric telegraph. There, can be little doubt,
therefore, that before long every merchant's
office will send and receive its own telegrams.
Nay more, may we not expect that large private
establishments, hotels and the like, will 'have
their internal telegrams just as they now have
their bellttires and gutty, percha tithes for com-
munication frOiti one apartment to another.
Having got thus far, by way Of '4O eil-founded
anticipation, we dare not set any limits to the
ultimate triumphs of the electric wire-thread
cable.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

VRAXCE:
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PAufB, Jan. 4, 18611
rt he news from Italy is of a Very gloomy de-
scription. M. de Cavour, who is seriously ill,
appears to be even more in danger as regards his
government and policy. This illustrious states-
man becomes every day more afraid of seeing
himself and all his moderate plans entirely upset
in the spring by the re-appearance of Garibaldi
on the scene, at the head of an overwhelming war
party; and as the French Government is entirely
opposed to any further active hostilities being
initiated by Victor Emmanuel, Count Cavour,
who does not wish to break with France, sees
no alternative before him but to withdraw alto-
gether for a time from the direction of affitirs.
In these circumstances it is generally supposed
that M. Ratazzi, instead of accepting a subordi-
nate position in the present Ministry, will, if the
opposition comes into office, be named Prime
Minister.

So long as the Piedmontese troops are engaged
in contending against the last dying struggles of
the Bourbon Dynasty in the Two Sicilies, there
is little chance of any successful attack being
made by them upon Venetia ; so that Napoleon
111., by thus contributing to prolong the siege of
Gaeta, is actually, though not intentionally,
rendering no small service to the new Italian
Monarchy, and giving time for negotiations as to
Venetia. It is, perhaps, for the same reason that
the unsatisfactory news which has reached this
from the French squadron as to the little progress
made by the Piedmontese in the siege operations,
is not regarded in so unfavourable a light as
would otherwise have been the case. In fact,
according to the testimony of eye-witnesses, the
Piedmontese artillery has, up to the present time,
produced very little effect indeed on the defences
of Gaeta, and the labours of the besiegers, unless
they obtain the command of the sea, may last
quite as long as the siege of Sebastopol itself,
for it is now declared that even if the French
squadron was withdrawn, the place could only be
taken by a famine, caused by want of the requi-
site supplies.
It is asserted that the Count Gropello, the Sar-
dinian Chargé d'Affaires, was present at the
reception at the Tuileries, notwithstanding the
interruption of diplomatic relations between his
government and that of France.
It was announced, and afterwards contradicted,
that the young Queen of Naples has gone to
Rome. It is now said that her Majesty, yielding
to the urgent entreaties of her husband, had
actually set off for that capital. The vessel in
which she sailed was compelled to return by
stress of weather.

There is rt wrll-1-nown sa3ina, that "it never
rains, but it pours." This seems to be the case
with "constitutions" at present. Not long ago,
as we all know, Francis 11. (but, unfortunately
for himself, rather too late in the day) made a
present of some very liberal articles of this
description to his justly enraged subjects. The
Bey of Tunis did the same in the case of his
African subjects. The Emperor Joseph has gone
considerably further in the same direction than
the Emperor Napoleon, and now the talk is of a
constitution or charter of some kind which is
about to be bestowed on his Polish subjects by
the Emperor of Russia. The news which has
reached Paris on this latter subject has transpired
through some diplomatic channel.
The Poles residing in Saxony, and especially in
Dresden, have, it is said, taken the unanimous
resolution to quit the country, so as in that way
to protest against the act, so universally repro-
bated, of which Count Teleki was the victim,—
and also to preserve their own persons against
similar outrages.
The affair of the seizure of the Sardinian ves-
sels which were attempting to introduce arms and
ammunition into the Danubian Principalities is not
yet terminated. It appears that Russia has inter-
fered in the matter. Some rifled cannon, but of
small calibre, had been purchased in England,
avowedly on account of the Russian Government,
and information of the fact was given by the
Russian Legation in London to the Cabinet of
St. Petersburg ; but great was the astonishment
when it was announced from St. Petersburg that
no order had been given for any such commo-
dities. It was subsequently ascertained that
some cannon had arrived in Hungary, and had
been landed by some merchant vessels sailing
under the English flag. Since then it has been
ascertained that a vessel of a very large size had
arrived at Naples, laden with 750 tons of powder
of English manufacture, and a whole cargo of
revolvers of the largest calibre. The entire ship-
load of war material was transferred on board two
Sardinian vessels. At the same time a number
of chests were made by some well-known
tradesmen of Naples, to contain the rifled
muskets which had been left in a store there by
Garibaldi, and made over to Colonel Turr. These
chests were designed to contain only twelve rifles
each, so that they and their contents might be
easily carried by two men.
The moment all these facts had been elicited
from the inquiries set on foot on the subject,
Prince Labanoff, the Russian Minister at Con-
stantinople, was instructed to support the claims
of Austria upon the Turkish Govermnent to pro-
hibit the further transport of contraband of war
through the territories under its jurisdiction, and
to give all the support in his power to the Turkish
Ministry in carrying out the necessary steps for
this purpose.
The successful conclusion of a home loan by
the Russian Government has caused no small
surprise in financial circles here, where it was
thought that the Czar would have had difficulty
in raising so large a sum as £16,000,000 sterling
in all the capitals of Europe put together. It is