The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-08-17 00:00:00

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The DWbats, one of the ablest and soberest of the '
Paris journals, revives and endorses, along with important
additions, the rumoured visit of Garibaldi to" Naples, for
the purpose of having a, conference with the heads of
the movement. It affirms that the Neapolitan Home
Secret•Fy was cognisant of the visit, and also that
Pount Yellamarim;; 4E4 accepted the post of pfoYisional
governor of the city for victor Emmanuel, If it be
true, as is also mentioned by the _Debats, that no less
than twenty thousand stand of arms and Orsini
shells have, within the last few days, been landed
on behalf of the Garibaldians, it is more than probable
that some of the members of the Government were
privy to peas yryceeditgii also. Perhaps, however,
it is 4 SO more signi4cant circumstance, that the
greater port of these arms Emd tuateriel, 414 according
to another account, a much larger quantity of them,
has been furnished from the arsenals of the French
Government. This latter fact was, it will be recol-
lected, alluded to by our Paris correspondent in
one of his recent letters; and it is certainly cal-
culated to pyovolte still further curiosity, if not
anxiety, to know, What are the real motives which are
intluencing the pokey of Louis Napofron, with respect
to the anticipated complications in Italian affairs. Ac-
cording to the statement in our Milan letter, Garibaldi
is better off than was supposed in regard to transports
and war steamers. •

A telegram from Paso, a cape on the north-eastern
coast of Sicily, dated previously, but received subse-
quently, to that which ve published yesterday from
Naples, gives, it will be seen, another and somewhat
different version of the action between a Garibaldian
and Neapolitan steamer, and of the attack made by the
Veloce on one of the Calabrian forts. According to
this account, the Veloce disembarked on the coast a
battalion of Garibaldian volunteers on Monday morning

The principal Loudon paßeTa adopt the same view that
we expressed yesterday, on the subject of the note said to
have been transmitted by the Austrian government to
Count Cavour. It is both the policy and the interest of
Austria to wait. It will also be more convenient for her
to do so in a financial point of view. The accounts pre-
viously received from Vienna of the friendly and cordial
character of the rel4tiAl established between her and
Prussia, are confirmed by intelligence of the same
tendency from Berlin. Time is, however, necessary for
the consolidation of this important alliance, and for the
development of its results. Victor Emmanuel is
evidently not intending to enter the lists against Austria
single-banded. The latter Power will require the sup-
port, both morel and material, of Prussia, when the
Emperor of the French appears on the arena, as beyond
all doubt.he will ere long- do. But she must ayoid the
mistake of last year. If attacked in ungary or Croatia,
she will provoke sympathy, for she will have been attacked
without just cause, but if she again take the initiative,
as she did in 1859, and not wait till she is assailed, she
will probably be beaten, and it will then be said, and
said justly, that she has provoked her fate.

Advices from Constantinople acquaint us with the
energetic measures which have been adopted in Syria by
Fuad faelaa for the arrest and punishment of the
Turkish authorities of rank who afe accused or haying
been privy to the massacre of
.the Christians in the Le-
banon; but they also bring rumours of a fresh massacre at
Balbeek. Aleppo was, however, quiet at the date of the
last accounts. The. Sultan's Exchequer appears to be
totally empty. He is in want of money, fully as much
as of men.•

The Hon. Percy Wyndham, second son of Lord
Lecoll.eld, who succeeds to the estates of his brother
the late General Sir Vyndham, has come forward
as a candidate for the representations of vest Cumber-
laud, vacated by the death of the late Om Wyndham..
Mr. Percy Wyndham announces, in his address to the
constituents, that his political principles are in all
important points identical with those of. their late
member: It is pretty generally understood that there
will be no contest ; but even if this should not be the
case, it is understood that the Conservatives in this
important district (thanks tq the gentlemen who have
attended to the registration) were never in a better
position than at the present moment, to tight the battle
of Conservatism.

The new Game Act was printed on Wednesday last.
From and after the passing of the Act on Monday last,
the new duties commence. For a license in Great Bri-
tain, or a certificate in Ireland, to kill game, if the same
be taken out after the sth of 4pril and befor.e the fst of
November, to expire on the sth of April in the follow-
ing year, £3; to expire oa the 31st of October in the
same year in which it is taken out, £2 ; if the license
or certificate be taken out on or after the Ist of Novem-
ber, to expire on the sth of April following, £2 ; for a
game-keeper to kill game on lands of a person having
the Tight, ; for every license to deal in game in
England, Scotland, or Ireland, to be granted under this
Act, £2. The new duties are to be excise duties, under
the Inland Revenue Commissioners.

An estimate of the national defences was published
yesterday,.for the ensuing year, for fortifications at home
and abroad. The fortifications required abroad are not
expensive, and 149,832 only are asked on their account.
•
For the fortifications at home the sum required is
£515,523. 9f the items which make iv this aniount the
largest is £BQ,OOO, requiro or 940 n'eepit defence of
Devonport Dockyard. 'bi sum is, of coarse, only the
first instalment of that Mich be recoired to com-
plete the work, namely, 4240,000 and the same remark
may be applied to all the items mentioned in the
estimate.

The inquest of the late fatal accident at Dover is
adjovned until Tuesday neat, when scientific evidence
as to the cause of the eiplosion will be adduced. The

funeral of Sergeant Monger takes place to-day, and the
demonstrations of respect and sympathy are expected
to be on an extensive scale. The sufferers are progres-
sing favourably. Hadlow, the gunner, who applied
the match to the exploded gun, carries his arm in a
sling, owing to.the injury he received in his hand, and
the whole of the right side of his face and neck is
speckled with marks of injury from the gravel or fine
shingle blown from the platform, on the gun exploding.

Tuesday last- was a great da/ for Welshpool, being
virtually the one on which a railway train first entered
the town, although passenger trains had run between
that town and Oswestry for several days. Not Welsh-
pool alone was animated and stirred by the auspicious
event which had to be commemorated, but Oswestry also
partook of the feeling, and at this place a general holiday
was held. An exchange of compliments took place
between the Mayors and the gentlemen of the Town
Councils of Oswestry and Welshpool. Cannons were
fired from an early hour, and the bells of the old church
pealed forth their melodious sounds throughout the day.
" Ignorance sits enthroned," wrapping its gloomy
mantle around the prospects of thousands of our fellow-
countryUien. Vice and moral degradation in countless
shapes are holding captive the minds and bodies of
multitudes. Go where we may, and nowhere more se
than in this great commercial town, we see intemper-
ance with its million palaces where no other god but
Bacchus is worshipped, and whose devotees have deso-
lation written on their countenances and their homes.
How many of England's fairest daughters also do we see
brought to shame, misery, and infamy, passing through
life, plucking flowers which only grow on the paths of
iniquity, and around the margin of the grave. And
deeper still than any of these evils, we are continually
called upon to record the progress of rulirclers which,
in most instances, can be traced to error, ignorance, and

, intemperance.
There is at the present moment a vast deal of indi-
vidual excellence ; but we are sorry to add that there
also exists a vast amount of crime, and of such a cha-
racter as is tending to eat into the vitals of England's
national life, in a great measure to hinder the develop-
ment of her capabilities, and to interpose, 'OlO, viost
serious obstacles to the nioral and material progress of

the people.
At the sitting of the Central Criminal Court on
Wednesday last, William Godfrey Youngman, the
Walworth murderer, pleaded not guilty to the indict-
ments which charged him with having "of his malice
aforethought killed and murdered Elizabeth Young-
man, his mother, Charles Itaysqn Youngman, and
Thomas Neale Youngman, his brothers, and Mary
Wells Streeter." The knife which the murderer used
was produced at the trial yesterday ; the blade was some-
thing like a dagger, and it was altogether a very
formidable weapon; the point was broken oft. The case
lasted the whole day, and we learn by telegram that the

ury found the prisoner guilty, and he has been sentenced
to death.

At the same court, Elizabeth Weekstead; aged ao
Was sentenced to three years'• penal servitude for fel°.
niously attempting to drawn her illegitimate child.
This case was of a very dreadful character. In the
evidence it was stated she had been repeatedly heard to
say, "You -- bastard, I'll do for you. Bring the
young -- in, I'll do for it on the quiet." And yet
the hypocrite had the assurance to ask after sentence
had been passed upon her, whether her " dear: child"
would be allowed iiith
The same sentence, viz., three years, penal servitnde,
was passed upon Mary Allen, who was accused of hor-
rible cruelty to a child. The facts of the case are
of such a nature that they must necessarily excite
the sympathy of everyone. Mary Allen was a
schoolmistress in Southwark, and had adopted
this child, who was the daughter of a labourer in the
service of Messrs. Barclay 41-14 Co. She had beaten
her with a cane and a stick until the miserable little
creature was one mass of bruises and clotted blood,
She had burnt her with a flat iron. She had com-
pelled her to swallow human excrement. The truth of
these facts was proved not only by the evidence of the
child herself, but her testimony was corroborated in all
material particulars by that of independent witnesses.
When called upon for her defence this abominable
womt;n. admitted the truth of the tact charged, but
endeavonred to excuse herself on the ground that she
had only treated the child in such a manner in order to
correct her of various faults and propensities. The jury
instantly found her guilty of the whole charge. Mr.
Justice Williams, who presided at the trial, very
naturally said, "That in all his experience he did not
remember any case where one human being appeared to
have acted with so much cruelty to auother as she
appeared to have acted towards this poor
The coroner's inquest returned a verdict of man-
slaughter, yesterday, against William' Williams, the
younger, Henry Walker, and William Davis, the parties
implicated in the fatal tight at Battersea, the particulars
of which have already been published. They are bound
over to appear at the next September sessions of the
Central Criminal Court,
The case of Slater*and Vivian, the two warders of
Colney Hatch Asylum, who are charged with the man-
slaughter of one of the patients, is to stand over to the
September sessions.
Thomas Gallagher, a shoemaker, was sentenced to
death yesterday, at the Crown Court, Liverpool, by
Baron Martin, for the murder of his wife. the prisoner,
in defence, pleaded drunkenness in extenuation. How-
ever, the judge, in passing sentence upon the prisoner,
said that the epithets applied to the murdered woman
were inconsistent with those of a drunken man ; and
observed that, even if his statement were true, it was
only another proof that drink lqads to the roost atrocious
• .
crimes.

Yesterday morning the marriage of Lady Alice Yiliiers,
second daughter of the Earl of Clareudop, with Lord
Skeltaersdale, was celebrated at St. Paul's Church,
Knightsbridge, which Was crowded by ladies, many of
whom were members of aristocratic families. Shortly
after half-past eleven o'clock the bride, accompanied by
her noble father, arrived, when the bridal party pro-
ceeded to the communion-table, where the Earl and
Countess of Derby, Lord and Lady Palmerston, and a
large circle of the aristocracy were Kasent,

THE KING OF BURMAH AND THE
QUEEN OF ENGLAND.
COMMERCE WITH WESTERN CHINA.

THE opening up of Western China to our trade
is a subject of acknowledged-importance to the
people of this district, and is now a matter of
anxious consideration in the Liverpool Chamber
of Commerce. Many considerable benefits are
eueeted to arise from the establishment of a
direct trade with Western China from Rangoon,
in British Eastern Pegu ; and a favourable oppor-
tunity for securing it seems to have arisen by the
arrival of a letter-bearer with an epistle addressed
to the Queen by the King of Burmah. The
Chambers of Commerce of Manchester, Leeds,
Huddersfield, Bradford, and Halifax have already
addressed the firitish Government in favour of
the project; and other leading centres of com-
merce are sure to follow in their wake. The
whole matter is so well explained in a leading
article which appeared the other day, in the
London and China 81.-
monthly Telegraph, that,
without further comment of our own, we subjoin
it for the ihforrnatibu of onr readers, requesting
for it a careful and attentive perusal.

Alaung-b'hu-ra the Conqueror, founder of
the independence of Burmah and of its present
dynasty, great-great-grandsire of his present
Majesty King Mendoon-Men, ninth king in suc-
cession from Alaung-b'hu.ra, wishing to estab-
lishe direct relations between himself fitici our
ding George -Q., addressed a letter 'to his' Ma-
jesty in 174, 'written 'on a sheet of the 'purest
gold, enridhed with the' very finest rubies. The
truly royal letter was.entrlistOcl tq English-
man named Dyer to convey from Rangoon to
the British monarch, but it never reached its des-
tination ; nor has the manner of its disposal ever
become known. Its non-delivery may have been
caused by the vicissitudes of a voyage at that time
between Bahgoon and England; by the dot'4 of
Mr. Dyer before reaching' our Shore,'or by 't'he'
decease of George before he arrived ;
While the • death of Alaung-h'hu-ra in the
sate year 1114 Y halT "s 0
Orly pact of the
no inquiries after tile 'letter `t4 have been
made by the Court of Burmah. This historical
incident regarding a Burmau Sovereign is thus
alluded to in a pamphlet before us advocating
the establishment of intimate friendly relations
between our Court and that of the " Golden

Throne" :—" But, alas! ' that letter of gold and
rubies never reached its destination, or the direct
intercourse which the King Alompra (Alaung-

b'hu-ra) and his royal successors have ever desired
with the Sovereign of England might, happily,
have been at that period established, and Western

China opened to our trade."
That Alaung-b'hu-ra had every right to con-
sider himself the sovereign equal of the King of
England must be admitted from the style adopted
by English Governors of the period in India, in

addressing his predecessors on the Burman throne;

one of which Governors commenced a letter to the

Burman Sovereign Mara-`Para in these terms:--
"To his Imperial Majesty, who blesseth the noble
city of Ava (the then capital of Burmah) with his pre-
sence, Emperor of Emperors, and excelling the kings of
the East and West in glory and honour ; the clear fir-

mament of virtue, the fountain of justice, the perfection
of wisdom, the lord of charity, and protector of the
distressed ; the first mover in the sphere of greatness,
ever wise in council, victorious in war; who feareth
none, and is feared by all ; centre of the treasures of the
earth and of the sea; lord proprietor of gold and silver,
of rubies, of amber, and of all precious jewels ; favoured
by heaven, and honoured by men ; whose brightness
shines through the world as the light of the sun, and
whose great name will be preserved in perpetual memory ;
GREETING : -

" The fame of so glorious au Emperor, the lord of
power and riches, being spread through the whole earth,
all nations resort to view the splendour of your great-
ness; and, with your Majesty's subjects, to partake of
the blessings which Almighty God has bestowed on
your empire above all others ; which I pray may ever
continue,' &c., &c., &c."

We now publish these instances of early inter-
course between England -and Burmah, because
the present excellent occupier of the " Golden
Throne, King Mendoon-Men, has very recently
resumed the effort made by his illustrious pro-
genitor and predecessor to establish friendly
intercourse with the British Sovereign, indepen-
dent of the. Governor-General of India and. his
Mai-Council, as the Burman Court considers the
governing Council of 13.17i45h, 4dia to be. His
Majesty has embraced the opportunity of the
return to. England, of Mr. Thomas Spears, a
British merchant long- resident at his capital, to
send a "Royal Letter" to Queen Victoria. And as
this interesting document, whether written on gold
adorned with rubies or on less worthy material, will
not have, while in Mr. Spears' charge, the fate of
Alaung-b'hu-ra's letter to lking George 11.,
we anxiously hope that it, may equally escape the
perils of p#, costly pigeon-holes of Downing-
street, he promptly presented to her Majesty,
and receive from her own right royal hapd, 'irre-
spective Of ministerial routine and ekr-41,1„ralocution,
such a frank and gratifying. acknowledgement as
her Majesty's heArt will naturally prompt—such
as hey subjects the world over have recently had
the high gratification to read as written by her to
the President of the United States of America on
the subject of " her son" V\e.. VA•kpßo. of Wales'
visit to hirn..
MIT, Thomas Spears, the bearer of the letter
from Aniarapoora, has resided, with short inter-
ruptions, upwards of twenty years at that capital
as a merchant; and has returned to his native
Scottish home after, we belive, an absence of
thirty years from Europe. He is, of course,
master of the Burman language, and conversant
with• the customs of its Court. lie witnessed,
during his residence, at Amarappora, the suges-
sion of. three, kings, is much respected by the
present Sovereign, who considers him almost his
own subject ; gad Mr, Spears naturally feels in
return a strong regard for his Majesty, without
forgetting that he is a subject of Queen Victoria.

Thus, he always refrained from interfering in
Burman politics, or in the intrigues of natives or
foreigners at the Court of Amarapoora, wetrieting
himself to maintaining honourably the. high cha-
racter of a Briti&,t merchant pursuing legitimate
commerce in a foreign land. Such an opening as
this ". loyal Letter "presents will, we trust, lead to
a correspodence on state matters with Burm ah being
conducted direct between her Majesty's Secretary
of State for Foreign Affairs, and the King of
Burmah's Egga Maha Thinapadi Aye-baing,
Minister for Diplomacy, as is desired, instea.(l, of
through the (4
Governor-gerkeral , India, as ,
here-
tofore.

Considering that Lancashire and Yorkshire are
now advocating direct commercial intercourse
with the Ittoto-n half of China from our north-
eastern Pegu frontier, and seeing how important
it has become to our manufacturers of every
class to obtain • the additional supply of raw
materials which that large and rich moiety of
the Chinese empire would then yield them, this
spontaneous and very laudable appros,ch of the
King of Ifurrnal4 to our Queen cannot be too
highly estimated. All the benefits which the
Chambers of Commerce of those two industrial
counties are now memorialising her Majesty's
Ministers for, by means of a direct trade with
Western China from British Eastern Pegu,
may unquestionably be promptly realised, to
them, if our Foreign Secretary—ls-e.49\villg the
routine and circumlocution at 'handing the Bur_
mart AoyEti Leaer " over to the India Secretary
for reply, to be first sent by him out to the
Governor-General of India, wherever he may
happen to be, for consideration ; and from him,
.ri by the
perhaps, to Rangoon, to be reported tiPo
Commissioner of Pegu—ave4,4 4imself of this
opening to ep4p.llis4 clirot frieihdly correspon-
dence tietWeen llowning-street and the Minister
of the " Golden Throne." We recommend some
member for our manufacturing districts to move,
before the House of Commons rises, for a eppi, of
this letter from his Majesty c 4 Eurrnah to our
proposals deserving Queen. There not likely to be in it any-
State
waste-paper, department of the Foreign ogle.c,
immolation in the secret
Of the production of sill, 4119) the Dom
Rheea or ow ma (00A gms)), and other fibres,
onttop, and other valuable materials, in WesOrn
China and in the country between it and Eastern
Pegu, along the Follaied route, we may treat in
a following issue.