The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-10-01 00:00:00

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idoNDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1860.

NEWS OF THE DAY.

We have again stirring news of and from Central
Italy.
The' feifPn aid fortress of Ancona capitulated on Satur-
day morning. The Sardinian fleet having succeeded on
the previous day, by a bold nithiceuvre, in destroying the
whole of the batteries 'which protected the harbour,
General Lamoriciere, who appears to have made a. most
gallant defence, finding the place no longer tenable, sent
two envoys, with flags of truce, to Admiral Persano,
wild continued to command the fleet, and to General
Fanti, who Was in command of the Piedmontese troops,
and articles of capitulation were agreed to and signed in
the course of the day. in Virtue of these, General
Lamoriciere and the entire garrison surrendered as
prisoners of war. Not the least important effect which
will accrue from the fall of the place is, that it will leave
the greater portion of the united corps of Generals
Cialdini and Fanti available for operations within the
Neapolitan frontier, where we learn Gaiibaldi continues
to be hard pressed by the forces whom Francis 11, has
contrived to rally round him.
Our Paris correspondent, whose views were confirmed
by the correspondent of the Globe, was correct in regard-
ing the question of the Pope as the one which was
rapidly developing itself into the question of the day.
A telegram from Paris, dated yesterday, supplies us
with the purport of the terms of the reply made to the
ultimatum of his Holiness, brought, to St. Cloud by M.
the Duke de Cadore, in the circumstances which we
have previously explained. The Emperor is reported to
have assured the emissary of his Holiness that nobody
deplored more than himself the course taken by Sar-
dinia, but that the employment of force " under present
circumstances" would plunge Italy into a struggle from
which a general war might arise, thereby aggravating the
evil, instead of diminishing it; and therefore, all he could
do for the Holy Father was to increase (a step which
has already been taken) still further the French
marrison at Rome, so as still further to secure the
patrimony of St. Peter, including Rome, Civita Vecchia,
and Viterbo, from attack, either by the Piedmontese
troops or Garibaldian volunteers. He was also pre-
pared, in case of need, to appoint a French marshal to
the chief command of the army of occupation, and
which of them could be better suited for such an im-
portant post than Marshal Vaillant, who ri a Red the
Holy City from the grasp of Garibaldi and his co-
revolutionists in 1849. In an article in the Ce -
stitutionnel on Saturday, it is stated that the des-
patch of the additional French troops to Rome
has been caused by the " revolutionary character of
Garibaldi's last accounts," and that; France will prdtect
Rome and the Papacy in 1860 as it did in 1849, against
the attacks of demagegues. The writer of the article is,
however, careful to state that the French government
will continue to respect the principle of non-interference ;
but here again we are, of course, to understand that this
will hold good only "during present circumstances."
The correspondent of the Daily News has taken it upon
him, in the interest of Garibaldi and his present advisers,
to express the fear that the above demand of the French
government will lead to a bloody war, and put an end,
for a long time to come, to all hope of the regenera-
tion of Italy. This is, indeed, a gloomy vaticination, but
we are much inclined to think that its fulfilment would
be for a long time removed, provided Garibaldi could be
induced to do without the "red" ministry which he is
stated to have just formed, in opposition to the'eounsels
of his moderate advisers—and let us add, to the best
interests of "Italy's regeneration." It is not always—
very far from it—that we find ourselves agreeing with