The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1861-01-07 00:00:00

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Most important news has arrived from Amtrica.
South Carolina has formally seceded from the Union,
and the Southern States seem preparing, for actual
hostilities. Extraordinary excitement has also been
caused in consequence of the discovery of enormous defal-
cations in the Treasury departments of the Government.
The fuller details will be looked for with great interest.
The latest news from India, received on Saturday night
by the Bombay express mail, a summary of which will
be found in another column, and which was anticipated
by a brief telegram which appeared in our last, is not of
a re-assuring character. Serious riots had occurred in
relation to the income-tax—a tax which appears to be
most distasteful to the Ilindoo and Mohammedan mind;
and it appears, moreover; that a detachment of British
troops have been defeated at Shikkim, with the loss of
one gun and several men.
The present moment has been selected as a suitable
one for the publication of a proclamation by General
Garibaldi, dated the 11th November last, to the Neapo-
litans, in which the ex-Dictator recommends them to
rally round Victor Emmanuel, not to waste their time
in complaints of the trifling inconvenience which they
may suffer under the new state of things, and not to
clamour for his return. Ile says :—" Allow me to rest
for a few months. You are free, and have no right to
complain. There are Italians at this moment still in
bondage. Let me rest awhile, then, as I have fresh
labours and great fatigue and' suffering before me. Let
me recruit my strength to meet the impending storm.
Rome and Venice claim my aid. Do not forget that
they, too, form part of Italy, and that they still groan
under the thraldom sof the Austrians, and of the
French. * * * * Adieu! at the end of
March I will be with you once more." Else-
where will be found an analysis given by the
Journal des _Data,' of a programme which has been
circulated throughout Italy by thousands, and which
proceeds from what is called the "party of action."
The authors of it protest their devotion to the King, so
long as he is the defender and representative of unity,
and is firm in the design of giving Rome and Venice to
Italy. They are for engaging volunteers for the next
campaign of Garibaldi ; for the preparation of addresses
urging the departure of the French troops from Rome;
for the formation of a vast association and the recruiting
of members, particularly amongst soldiers and work-
men, each member paying a monthly contribution of a
franc. The object of the simultaneous circulation of
both these documents, seems to be to strengthen the ex-
pectations of a war in the Spring, as the sole means not only
of resolving the knotty problem of the Veaetian question,
but, also, of accomplishing still further the humiliation
of Austria, by striking at her through Hungary. Some
interesting details will be found in our Paris letter as
to the means which are being actively pursued by this
"party ofaction"—ltalian and Hungarian—to introduce
arms and ammunition into Hungary, by way of the
Danubian Principalities, and to the measures which
have been adopted for putting a stop to suoh practices.

Every hour is precious to Austria; and if she be w;