The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-10-10 00:00:00

the defenders. _ Garibaldi's reported demand for a

reinforcement of 14,000 Piedmontese regulars is not

consistent with ability to capture Capua ; but neither is
it inconsistent with the fact of his having already

Bebtired material assistance from the Bersailieri who
Were in Naples at the tinie Of the fight. Indeed, after

his defeat the Kin's forces outnumbered those of the
nictatow.nd they may still hold their positions, if they
will, until the arrival of Victor Emmanuel:
King Victor has explained his policy to the people of
Southern Italy in a manifesto, but it is an explanation
of his present policy, net of the fitture, His troops
entered the Neapolitan territories yesterday, and the
inhabitants from every part of the kingdcini hair;
through the medium of the various municipalities and
other constituted authorities, proclaimed him King,
offering him their homage and submission, and soliciting
his immediate presence. Nothing, therefore, remains
but the ratification of this choice by a vote of universal
suffrage, which the constitutional King of Piedmont and
his Government have signified their readiness to accept,

nay have anticipated. -
There are rumours of a third division of the French

army being sent to Rome, in which city and its vicinity
some movements and occurrences have recently taken
place, for which we must refer to another column.

It is asserted; it will be observed; that an offer of a

pecuniary indemnity for the loss of his temporal posses-
sions has been. made to his Holiness, and refused, though
it appears that payment of Peter's pence is expected
from all the faithful at the present crisis ) but unless
General Goyon is willing to charge himself with the
collection of the contributions, the returns are not likely
to be large.

Prince Juan de Bourbon has issued another mani-
festo, in which he bewails the past and present of
Spain, and promises her a brighter future if she will
listen to his witching voice. His present manifesto is
certainly calm and temperate, and apparently sincere ;
but then John of Bourbon is in adversity, and adversity
suggests truthfulness.
It is stated that the English Cabinet, not altogether
relying on its accredited agents in Italy, recently sent
special envoys into Venetia, who reported that the Aus-
trian army in that quarter was sufficiently strong to
*secure it from any attack, and that this had induced
Lord J. Russell to change his policy, and to send the
despatch to Count Oavour that caused such astOnishment
to that statesman. Large reinforcements continue to
be sent into Venetia, and everything is preparing in
iustria for a ,wc(),ad great war; the fleet is to be secured
at Pola, in the Adriatic. It is stated that the
governor-general of Hungary, himself a Magyar, E 9
just caused the arrest of several individuals accused of a
plot to revolutionise all Hungary; and that others who
had been taken in flagrante delieto, having been found
trying to introduce revolutionary books, printed in
foreign countries, into that kingdom, had also been
arrested.

The new tariff to be applied to merchandise imported
into France from ilngland after the ist of the present

month, has not given complete satisfaCtion to Com-
mercial people. The Freetraders say that the duty
still imposed en metal goods is far from realising their
wishes. They expect, however, that the Government,
having once entered on the right road, will not stop
until all import duties are abolished. They admit,
neverthless, that the new tariff is very liberal in two
points of view—in the reduction of the old duties, and
in simplifying the perplexing formalities which, inspired
by the spirit of prohibition, converted French Custom-
houses into fortresses opposed to the importation of
foreign merchandise. They applaud, likewise, the
reduction of the chides iniposea on articles of cast-
iron which are in daily use for domestio as well
as for manufacturing purposes. They complain
with justice that the new tariff is not as liberal
with respect to machinery as it might be. One great
point, however, is gained. Prohibition, which was
unworthy of figuring in the commercial code of a
country so civilised as France, and which was hitherto
applied to cutlery, has been abolished, and replaced by
ad valorem duties. Another great advantage gained is
the abolition of the forms established by the decree of
the 15th of June, 1845, which referred to the importa-
tion of machinery into France. These formalities
rendered the importation of machinery extremely diffi-
cult, if not impossible. The abolition of these restrictive
measures will not only render immense service to the
importers of foreign goods, but will enable the French
Government to dispense with a number of useless hands
in their Customs department.
The ironmasters, on their part, are much displeased
at the reduced duties on metal announced in the Ifloni-
tour of the 30th of September. Their organ says :
The blow is rongher than we could have imagined,
and we feel no difficulty in admitting that we have com-
pletely failed in the defence which we attempted. Con-
sidering the treaty of commerce as a fact legally accom-
plished, and to which we should respectfully submit, we
thought we might ask that the tariffs which were to be
successfully annexed to it might be regulated in confor-
mity with what we think is the real meaning of the
treaty. We ask, is the tariff annexed in conformity
with the spirit or the meaning we have attributed to the
treaty of commerce ? We will make but two observa-
tions on this head. Let us divide the tariff into two
parts ; first the duty of 7f. on iron, fixed by the 17th
article of the treaty of commerce, in place of 12f. ;
secondly, the duties imposed on other articles by the
new tariff. We will content ourselves with saying that
the tariff announced in the llfoniteur goes much further
than the treaty, as we understand it. We are, more-
over, unfortunately authorised to believe that the tariffs
which are being prepared will not be more protective
than those we have befors us, and there is not a moment
to be lost in assisting the French manufacturers in the
difficult position in which they are placed.
The last American intelligence refers to an extraor-
dinary inquiry, which has been some time in progress,
regarding an almost universal system of plunder practised
by the employes of the Pennsylvania Railroad, one of
the leading lines of the United States. Twenty-one
persons are already implicated, and these seem to have
the power of implicating others in much higher position,
so that there is a strong desire for concealment. With
one exception, the whole of the conductors of the line
are understood to have long carried on a daily system of
misappropriation. Some of them have confessed and
disgorged as much as they were able. Qne gave up
£5OO, another £3,000. Others had lost all in gambling,
and had nothing to return. In one instance £l7 was
proved to have been embezzled by a conductor in a
single trip. This man, however, whose pay was £l4O
per annum, on being asked by the examining committee
how he had contrived in a few years to accumulate
£7,000, replied that he would give a satisfactory answer
if the party who put the question would explain how he
himself had contrived to become worth £60,000.
The following short narrative of the recovery, through
a dream, of property lost near Huddersfield, is certainly
sufficiently curious, though many readers will think it
requires confirmation. To such minds as those of Mr.
W. Howitt, Mr. Owen, or Mrs. Crowe, the little para-
graph itself will be to their theories confirmation strong
as proofs from Holy Writ :—" About a fortnight since
a lady in the neighbourhood of Huddersfield was
troubled with a dream which pictured to her the loss of
her silver plate. It made an impression on her mind,
and the next morning she made a search. In an
unused drawer which she had kept locked for
more than a year and a half, she believed she had an
old silver cup, which had long been in the possession
of the family, together with a number of teaspoons.
Neither the spoons nor the cup had been seen by her
during the interval, but the drawer was now opened and
examined. The dream was verified. The silver cup
was missing, and as no one but herself had ever had
legitimate access to the drawer, she came to the conclu-
sion that it must have been stolen. Accordingly the
police were communicated with. In the early part of
the past week, they received a communication from
Halifax, stating that a silver cup corresponding in de-
scription to that supposed to have been stolen was in
pledge for 335. at a pawnshop in that town. It was
redeemed, and proved to be the identical cup belonging
to the lady. She was fully enabled to swear to it, as
the initials " A.C.A." were engraved on the front. The
last time it was seen by the lady was on the occasion of
her removal to her present premises, when a man was
employed to assist. That was about a year and a half
ago, and the cup has been in pawn ever since May last.
It was pledged by a man who gave the name of "Brown,
from Manchester," but there is nothing known of him
likely to lead to his identity."
Joseph Copcutt, a post-office clerk, was charged before
the magistrate at Bow-street, on Monday, with an act
of robbery. He had been employed occasionally to
travel in the sorting tender for the purpose of arranging
letters on the journey, and several letters having gone
a-missing, suspicion fell upon him. The customary
trap was laid—a very reprehensible practice on the part
of the authorities—and into it the prisoner fell. In
placing before a person articles of value, by way of
testing his honesty, as every dishonest person must
have committed a first act of dishonesty, it is barely
possible that this test may be applied to him at a time
when he was least able to withstand the temptation ;
and the fatal plunge into crime may thus be superinduced.
This, of course, does not lessen the culpability of the
criminal. Evidence in support of the charge in this
case having been heard, the prisoner was committed for
trial.
At the half-yearly meeting of the Conservative Land
Society, on Monday afternoon, a very favourable report
was adopted.
At the annual meeting of the
North Staffordshire
Association for the Promotion of Education, held the
day before yesterday, at Stoke-upon-Trent, Mr.
Adderley, M P., and Lord Ingestre made speeches, and
.
there were also present two rather distinguished
Frenchmen, who had come over to the recent Social
seienie meeting, namely M. Gamier Pages, Minister of
Instruction in France in 1848, and M. Desmarest, a
leading jurist, who took the opportunity of addressing
an English audience upon a subject so generally
important.
The steel rifled gun invented by Mr. Thomas, and
manufactured at the Mersey Steel Works, is ordered to
be forwarded from the Royal Arsenal to the government
practice nine, Shoeburyness, during the present week,