The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-07-02 00:00:00

SWITZERLAND.

131. 11;13
BERNE, July 1.
It is asserted that Switzerland will submit to
the Conference the following question only :—" Is
it in the interest of Europe and the neutrality of •
Switzerland to leave the Simplon Pass perfectly
accessible to France without demanding any
fresh guarantees ?" Should this question obtain
a solution unsatisfactory to Switzerland, she
would confine herself to taking cognizance of the
declarations in which France engaged herself, to
assume all the military obligations resulting from
Article 9') of the final act of Vienna. Switzerland
would besides claim the right, in case of war,
of militarily occupying the neutralised districts
of Chablais and Faucigny ; Switzerland would
also state her reserves, the insertion of which in
protocols of the Conference she would demand,
and would maintain in principle all the rights
which are guaranteed to her by treaties.

TURKEY.

CONSTANTINOPLE, June 29.

By order of the Sultan, the Finance Commis-
sion has been transformed into a Council of Con-
trol, with extended powers. Mehemet Ruschdi
Pacha has been appointed President of the new
Council.

THE CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS.
SOUTHAMPTON, July 1.

. The Peninsular arid Oriental Company's steam-
ship Ceylon, with the heavy portion of the above
mails,•has arrived here.

She brings 185 passengers, £1,317 in specie,
and 1,421 bales of silk, valued at £140,000,
The Ripon left Gibraltar for thQ Rust on the
26th ult.

Her Majesty's ship Supply, From Plymouth,
had arrived at Utibraltar.

Martin Escalante, a British subject, has re-
turned to Gibraltar, after thirteen months'
im-
prisonment in Cadiz. In May of last year he
was sentenced by the Duke of Chinchilla to nine
years' penal servitude for attempting to change
the religion of Spain, by distributing copies of
the New Testament.

At Gibraltar, on the 26th June, exchange on
London at 90 days was quoted at 501, on Paris
5 30, on Marseilles and Genoa 5 31, on Madras,
eight days' sight, discount ;on Cadiz, Malaga,
and Valencia par. Freights unaltered.

MAIL NEWS.

QUEENSIOWN, July 1.

The royal mail steamship Arabia arrived here
at thirty-five minute past three o'clock p.m., and,
after embarking mails, latest telegrams, and
passengers, proceeded at five o'clock. All well.

AMERICA.
ARRIVAL OF THE AFRICA.

QUENSTOWN, July 1

The R.M.S, Africa, with the dates from New
York to the 20th June, arrived here at half-past
seven this morning; landed English and Scotch
mails, and proceeded again without delay.
She brings 155 passengers and $210,212 specie.
The Bohemian, Hammonia, City of WashingtolA,
and Illinois have arrived out,

General Walker, who left New Orleans with a
party of officers in a sailing vessel some time
since, is said to be bound for one of the Bay
islands belonging to Honduras.
In New Oran,ada a declaration of war was
looked for every clay on the part of the disaffected
States against the Federal government.
A batch of 400 negroes, taken from an Ameri-
can slaver, bras been taken into Havannah by a
Spanish vessel of war.
The rejection of Douglas by the National
Democratic Presidential Convention, at Balti-
more, is considered certain. Dickinson, of New
York, is now spoken of as likely to receive the
nomination.