The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-06-09 00:00:00

SICILY.

GENOA, June 8.

News from Sicily state that a capitulation has
been concluded between General Lanza and
Garibaldi. The conditions are not known.
PARIS, June 8.

The King of Naples has not only addressed the
Western Powers, but he has also invited the
simultaneous intervention of the five Great
Powers, in order to obtain from their collective
actions the guarantee for the integrity of his
States. King Francis 11. has more particularly
claimed the mediation of the Emperor of the French
for the pacification of Sicily, and has promised to
proclaim immediately the Constitution of 1852.
His Majesty has also requested the' five great
Powers to employ their authority and their influ-
ence to restrain Piedmont from favouring 'any
revolutionary movement on the mainland, of the
King of Naples. As regards the collective actions
of the great Powers, the English Cabinet was the
first to reply that it did not intend to interfere in
any other way in the conflict between the Neapo-
litan troops and Garibaldi than to stop, if possible,
the effusion of blood, without siding with either
party. After this answer, given by England, the
other great Powers likewise, in more or' less
positive terms, declined any direct intervention.
Napoleon 111. was at Lyons when M. Thou-
venel transmitted to his Majesty, by telegram, the
demand for mediation by the King of Naples ;
and his Majesty replied immediately that a me-
diation was only possible between two Powers;
and unless officially recognised (the Sicilian Revo-
lution), no Power could place itself mediator
between the same and the King of Naples.
Lord John Russell had, however, promised to
recommend to Piedmont not to foment any dis-
affections in the Neapolitan possessions in the
Peninsula. Except Austria, who does not main-
tain diplomatic relations with Piedmont, the other
great powers will act in a similar manner.

THE AGAPEMONE.

The arguments in the A gapemone case were
concluded yesterday evening. Judgment reserved.

ROYAL COMMISSIONS ON HER
MAJESTY'S DOCKYARDS.

The Gazette notifies the appointment of a royal
commission to inquire into the control and ma-
nagement of her Majesty's dockyards, the pur-
chase of materials and stores, the cost of
building and repairing, altering, fitting, and
refitting the ships of her Majesty's 'navy,
and the best mode of keeping the accounts ;
and also to inquire into the expenditure of former
years connected with the above subjects, to ascer-
tain whether the system of ship building has been
efficient, and whether the expenditure on the
alteration of the ships of her Majesty's navy,
either in converting them from sailing to steam-
ships, or on other alterations, during the progress
of their construction, had been judiciously applied.
The Commissioners are J. L. Ricardo, Esq., the
Earl of Gifford, Sir H. P. Willoughby, Captain
R. S. Robinson, R.N., and R. Dalglish, Esq.

The military arrangements consequent on the
death of Lord Strafford are expected to be as
follows :—The Duke of Cambridge to the Cold-
stream Guards, Viscount Gough to the Fusilier
Guards, General Earl Beauchamp to the Royal
Horse Guards, Major-General Beckwith from un-
attached to 10th Hussars. It is said that Lieut.-
General Dennis Daly is to be Colonel of the 78th
Regiment, vice Chalmers.
A notice from the Board of Trade intimates
that the Dominican Government have issued a
a decree re-opening to foreign trade generally
the port of Romana, from the Ist of January
next.

IMPERIAL PARLIAIIIENT.