The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1861-01-24 00:00:00

According to a despatch transmitted via Rome
General Cialdini, on Monday last, made the follow-
ing propositions to Francis 11. for the surrender
of Gaeta. Tic offered, it is said-Ist, To place at
the King's disposal two frigates for the convey-
ance of himself and family to any place to which
they might choose to go; 20, To give six months'
pay to the soldiers composing the garrison ; and,
tird, To recognise the rank of such of the officers
as should be willing to be incorporated with the
Sardinian army. The King, however, declined
even to entertain these proposals. Another
despatch from the same quarter announces that
the representatives of Rttsia, Prussia; and Por-
tugal accredited to the Court of daeta, have
returned to Rome, and that the only Ambassadors
now left at Gaeta are .the Nuncio and the Ministers
of Austria, Spain, Bavaria, and Saxony, that is to
say, the representatives of three Courts which
are more or less related to the Neapolitan branch
of the Bourbons.

A statement is quoted from the Ilocr•acnhalle of
Hamburg; to the effect that Prince Metternich
has been charged by his government to acquaint
the Cabinet of the Tuileries with the measures to
which Austria will have recourse; should the
Cabinet of Turin, in the event of an attack on
Venetia and Dalmatia, adopt the same attitude as
it •did with reference to Garibaldi's expedition
against Sicily. What these measures are, it is
not difficult to Conjecture; but as it is now gene-
rally believed that General Turr has succeeded in
inducing Garibaldi to defer his designs against
Austria for the present, or at all events, to put.
himself in the hands of the new Italian Parlia-
ment, and be regulated by its decision,. and as
nobody doubts what the opinion of a majority of
the new deputies will be on this question, there
is, happily, not much chance of Austria having
to carry her warlike intentions against Sardinia
into cited: •

The Civil Chamber of the Conft of Qassation
was occupied, on Friday last, with the ease • of
Madame Berton, who sought to have her mar-
riage with her husband annulled, on the ground
that he was, at the time of its celebration, and
unknown to her, under sentence of fifteen years.
to the galleys, The counsel for the wife had
maintained before the Imperial Court that this
circumstance amounted to an essential ergot iii
the contrast, and affected a ground for a declara-
tion of nullity ; but the judges, while expressing
great sympathy for the unfortunate lady, con-
firmed the decision of the Inferior Tribunal, and
found that the fact relied on did not afford suffi-
cient ground for annulling the union. The Court
of Cassation, yesterday, after a short deliberation,
announced that it would postpone its decision till
Monday neXt,
Paris and the country in the -vicinity is now
undergoing the process of a rapid dial*, The
labours of the husbandmen, which have been so
long interrupted, are now resumed ; and I under-
stand that notwithstanding the intensity of the
frost, which it is to be hoped is completely at an
end, no serious agricultural damage has been done.
The wheat, which was protected in a great many.
places by a deep coating of snow, has not suffered
from the frost. Farmers, therefore, have not
-much evil to apprehend from this source to their
crops, while they have, on the other hand, been
delivered from the future depredations of a great
variety of noxious insects. According to the
Journal of Practical Agriculture, great expecta-
tions are entertained respecting the favourable
character of the coming spring.
The improvement at the Bourse continues.
Rentes closed yesterday firmly at 67f. 50c.

THE LATE KING OF PRUSSIA AND THE
FRANKFORT ASSEMI3LY OF 1848.

The Prussian journals have published a letter,
dated the 3rd of June, 1849, addressed by Ernest
Maurice Arndt to King Frederick William IV.,
to :solicit his acceptance of the crown of the
German Empire, and the King's reply, which is
dated. the 18th of the same month. We. have
translated those portions of his Majesty's reply,
in which he assigns 'his reason for refusing the
offer. They are as follow
You beg me to accept a crown which is OFFERED TO
ME. Let us examine, in the first place, who it is that.
offers, and then what it is that is offered. * * *
The great Assembly which calls itself the "National
Assembly," and which is,'to a great extent, composed
of the best men in Germany,' has no crown either to
give or to offer. It has a constitution to elaborate and
to settle, in conjunction with all the etates•of o.orinanY)