The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-10-20 00:00:00

to the continual tampering of Government with that
once independent sheet, through the medium of a M. de
Russell, a captain in the Imperial navy, who has, unfor-
tunately for the Debats, come in for a share in the property

of the journal through the death of a relative.
The articles of M. Lemoinne, who boldly raised in
this journal the standard of Italian nationality, with the

applause of all intelligent France, and those of M. Che-
valier, in which he strenuously advocated the removal
of all restrictive and prohibitive regulations on com-
merce, are understood to have been among the causes of
the cecession. The Journal des Debats has been froth

time immemorial the depository of the French academie
wisdom in politics or belles lettrcs, and to be a writer iil
its columns was in itself a stepping-stone to membership

Mais tout cela se change—at least for the present.
Accounts from Vienna, in the Cologne Gazette, state

that foreign agents are busy tampering with the Hun-

garian and Italian regiments, to induce the men to
desett. The gotetinnent offer a reward of 200 florins
to every soldier that will give tip one of these agents to
the authorities, and within the last fottnight the reward
has been bestowed four times.

Yesterday William B. Webb, chief mate of the barque
Brierley Hill, who is charged with the murder of Wm.

Brown on the high seas, underwent a renewed examina-
tion at the Thames Police-court, London, and has been
committed for trial for wilful murder.
The illness of his Grace the Duke of Norfolk has
take an unfavourable turn, and his recovery is now con-
sidered hopeless. The duke still remains at his villa, at
Littlehampton, as it is not thought that he would be
able to bear being moved even so short a distance as to
Arundel Castle, and he has received the last rites and
sacraments of the Roman Catholic Church from the
hands of one of the fathers of the London Oratory.
The following is an extract from a letter dated Cape
Coast Castle, Gold Coast, Sept. 16 :—" The atrocities at
Dahomey have far exceeded the report of which you are
aware. Thousands.have been sacrificed. Latterly came
a steamer on that coast and shipped off 1,500 slaves. A
man-of-war being on the spot, saw the vessel, but sus-
pected nothing of her design. We hear that English
neople and other Europeans have been imprisoned, there
r
most rt,:babli from refusing to witness the human
sacrifice, or take part -Ll.'
the rites of diabolical supersti-
tion. Pray let this be known in the v:::er quarter."
In letters received from the Duke of New Castle, t
Clumber, his grace states that the Prince of Wales, him-
self, and suite, expect to arrive in London on the 30th
or 31st of October.
On Wednesday last, Mr. Zahn Davis, a traveller in
in the employ of White Brothers, lace manufacturers,
Nottingham (the firm which is implicated in some of the
extensive forgeries which have recently been brought to
light in that town), was brought before the borough

Magistrates at the polioe-cdutt, bh9Ted with being con,
cerned in the forgeries committed BY his eniplOyer, Mr.
Robert White. The bench remanded the priOnef
yesterday, when Mr. White also was to have irceil
examined.

The lar4 monthly return with reference to the Scotch
banks, made pursuant to the Bth and 9th Victoria, cap.
38, shows an average weekly circulation of £4,096,771,
being a decrease of £17,424, as compared with the pre-
vious month, but £1,347,500 above the fixed issues.
The stock of gold ar dilrer bullion held was £2,456,069,
being a decrease of £20,2b3 as Othpartd with the pre-
ceding return. The half-yearly clil.id6cl fdr the pro•
prietors of the Forth and Clyde Canal is he tit the
rate of 61 per cent. per annum, The shipment.), of pig
iron during the last week or two have been CT a toler-
ably extensive scale ; last week's return amounted to
10,974 tons, as compared with 9,883 tons in the cor-
responding week of last year. The export coal trade
has been active.
On Wednesday morning a frightful accident took
place at Hull. It appears that about half-past 5 o'clock
a number of men were employed fitting the cylinder of
the engine belonging to the steamer Ulster, lately
launched by Mr. Samuelson for the Galway line. A
large beam 14 by 15 inches broke, and precipitated the
men, along with the crank, which weighs nearly 15 tons,
into the hold below, amongst the machinery, a depth of
from 30 to 40 feet: A man named Thomas Smith was
crushed to death on the spot, and five others were so
seriously inj tired that they had to be taken to the infirmaty4
Lord Derby is gradually neutering from the weak-
ness usually following a severe attach of gout. Iris
lordship's recovery has been retarded by the state of the
weather, but there are not the slightest grounds for the
sinister rumours which have been in circulation, LOtti
Derby's family and friends looking forward confidently
to the speedy re-establishment of his health.
A paragraph having appeared in some of the metro-
politan papers to the effect that it is the intention of the
Government to exchange the present copper coinage for
that of the new bronze, we can state, from undoubted
authority, that it is not intended to withdraw any of the
old copper from circulation at present, as the coins it re-
presents are inadequate to the public requirements. A
considerable issue of the new coin, however, will be
made until the present scarcity is relieved. When that
has been effected, the old copper coinage will be gradually
withdrawn from circulation.
On Wednesday last a ease of shocking turpitude was
brought before the boron& magistrates in Wolver-
hampton. A young married couple, named Peter and
Mary Ann Southan, the keepers of a public-house in
Temple-street, in that town, were charged, the man with
a foul offence upon their servant girl, Anti Pitchford, not
yet seventeen, and the woman with assisting hint. It was
shown that, although there were several bedrootis, },et
that there was only one bed in the house, and that this,
was occupied by all three. The girl deposed that the
offence was committed last Tuesday morning, before any
one of the three got up, and that Mrs. Southan held her
down by her right arm. In the forenoon of the same
day she told a neighbour, and her mother fetched her
away. The surgeon's testimony was in favour of the
prosecution, and the female prisoner did not deny the
offence, but charged previous sins upon the girl in rela-
tion to the conduct towards her of the male prisoner.
To afford time for the attendance of a solicitor on the
prisoner's behalf, they were remanded upon this charge,
and also upon a precisely similar one committed upos
another servant three weeks before. The court was
thronged with listeners.