The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-09-15 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRANCE.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, Friday, Sept. 14, 1860. .
No one can deny that the French,Government
is providing, in anticipation, ample materials for
relieving the wounded susceptibilities of those
other Governments of Europe who are standing
aghast at the decided step which has just been
taken by Victor Emmanuel. In addition to the
semi-official disavowals of any sort of approval of
that step, which appeared in the evening papers.
of Wednesday, it was last night announced that
Baron Talleyrand, the French Minister at Turin,
had received orders to return to France, and that,
in his absence, the affiiirS of the Legation would
be administered by a Charge d'Affaires. I am
not prepared to say that in the circumstances any
excessive degree of umbrage can be taken at this-
proceeding ; and it will certainly have a very
good appearance, a matter of no little moment
in present circumstances. .Farther, the ad-
ditional reinforcements to the Roman gar-
rison are paraded with an. unusual degree..
of ostentation. The 7th Regiment of the
Infantry of the Line, commanded. by Colonel de
Mausslon, are to leave Paris on the 14th (to-day),
in the morning, to proceed to embark at -Toulon.
The steam frigates Descartes and El Dorado, are, -
it is said, to transport these troops to Civita
Veechia." So says the Patric of last night, but I
have seen no reason, whatever to depart one iota
from the persuasion by which I am influenced.
that-Louis Napoleon will not interfere between
the Sardinians and Lamoriciere. Whether there
May be any latent idea on the part of the Emperor
of appropriating hereafter some part of the spoils
of this new Italian campaign, or of claiming some
consideration for opposing no active obstacle to
its progress, is at present only matter of conjec-
ture, in which I need not on the present occasion
indulge.

I am equally without any good ground for
changing the opinion I have formed as to the
objects which Austria has in view in its present
military preparations, about which so much con-
tinues to be said.

There are some interesting details in last
night's papers, respecting the reception and
entrance of Garibaldi into Naples ; but the intel-
ligence does not come down later than the Bth.

The Emperor and t=he Empress have arrived at
Nice, and were present at the grand ball given
there on Wednesday night. I am told that the
Moniieur, in reporting the speech of the Bishop
at Marseilles. has omitted some important pas-
sages relating to the present state of the Papacy.
The following account of a robbery, which
occurred here the other day, of an English lady
of title, by an old servant, will probably interest
many
of your readers, to some of whom the cir-
cumstances referred to in the history of the lady-
may not be unknown. The Countess of K., who
had been married hardly three Months, was one
evening in the Royal Italian Opera - house,.
Covent Garden. In the next box to that which
was occupied by her ladyship and her husband
there were several young men of fashion,
members and sons of distinguished members
of Parliament, and among them Sir James D.
Forgetful of all propriety, this last-mentioned
young gentleman addressed some words in a low
tone to the countess, which wounded the suscep-
tibility of the earl, who, instead of receiving an
apology or explanation from Sir James, received
some severe blows. Challenges were exchanged,
and on the following day Sir James and the earl
fought a duel. The latter fell. The affair made
a great sensation, and a judicial examination fol-
lowed. The countess, overwhelmed with grief.
left London to come to reside in France for some
time, in the hope that time and absence from the
scene of her affliction would effect a :cure. She
took up her abode in a villa in the envi-
rons of Paris, having with her • only the
two domestics whom she had brought with her
from England—a youvernante, an. elderly lady by
whom she had been brought up, and John 0—
her servant, who had not yet attained his twen-
tieth year. For two months the young widow
remained in the profoundest solitude ; she with
difficulty consented to receive some friends of her
family who live in Paris, and who had come to
offer their condolences. John was in the habit
of complaining to his friends of the dull life he
was leading, and they counselled him to look
after anether situation, being unwilling, as he
said, to remain shut up for ever. A few days
ago ho announced to the Countess that he