The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-09-05 00:00:00

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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1860.

NEWS OF THE DAY.

Garibaldi has written to the secretary of the An-
nexionist Committee, to whose busy labours We referred
yesterday, to mentien that he means to arrive in Naples
on or abort the Bth instant (Saturday nett); and that
he will, on arrival; assume the Dictatorship of the Two
Sicilies, in the name, and, there can be no doubt also
with the authority, of Victor Emmamiel. The Com,
mittee is busily engaged in preparing for his reception,
and the inhabitants for his welcome. The city, we
are told, will be illuminated for three nights ; and
although the illuminations may not be visible from
Gaeta, or the rejoicings of the Neapolitans heard
there, it is not likely that Francis 11., who has doubt-
less by this time retired from Naples, will linger for
any length of time on his first stage towards Austria
or Spain. Gaeta, so memorable for the shelter it
afforded the present Pope in 1848-49, though strongly
fortified on the land side, is open to an attack by sea
of whieh Garibaldi mast now be supposed to possess
the undisputed command.
The Journal des Debats, a paper which has for some
time strenously advocated the annexation of Naples to
Piedmont, feels itself at liberty to proclaim that the
fall of Francis 11. will remove all cause of difference
between England and Austri and that England will
now make known that " the Mincio Marks the limits of
her sympathies es the Italian cause,"—in other words,
that England will cease to adhere to her policy of non-
interference, if Venetia be attacked. Like so many
similar statements, howerer, this observation has very
much more the air of a suggestion than of a fact ;
though at the same time, it would be far from easy to
forecast the future policy of the Ministry, so long as Lord
John Russell holds the seals of the Foreign-office.
Austria, meanwhile, continues her active preparations
for the defence of Venetia, by, at one and the same time,
strengthening her great fastnesses with the view to over-
awe Sardinia, and increasing to the utmost her maritime
strength in the Adriatic. If we could trust a statement
made by the Ultramontane Monde—a journal Whith, as we
have observed above respecting the be&tts, also advocates
the calm Which it espouses, by making suggestions
instead of adhering to facts—Lord John Russell has
addressed a confidential note to Count Cavour, dissuad-
ing him from joining in, or sanctioning, any attack on
Venetia. If this statement were true, it is not too much
to say, that a letter of that kind would be worth to
Austria fifty of her best regiments, but it seemly wears
the garb even of probability.
The Austrian Gazette, in announcing that the first
plenary sitting of the Council of the Empire will
be held neat Monday, mentions that a revolutionary
committee has been discovered at Verona, that its
members have-been arrested, and that the papers which
were seized " threw a surprising light on the pro-
ceedings of a neighbouring power,"—but these state-
ments also require confirmation.
There has been no lack of telegrams within the last day
or two relating to the Roman States. General Lamori-
ciere cannot be accused either of inactivity or of keeping
silence. In his last reported order of the day, he an-
nounces that he has 20,000 men more than the 30,000
which previous information assigned to him, and that
he can bring the entire force of 30,000 into the
field. This may possibly be the case, but, whether they
would tight, when they found themselves in presence of
an army whose leader has hitherto never. left the battle-
field excepting as a conqueror, is a very different matter.
Some of the concluding observations made by M. de
Persigny in a second speech delivered by him in public,
:fir France, appear to hate tended to confirm a recently
made impression, that the Emperor would merely pro-
tect the Pope's throne in the Vatican, but the successor
of General Guyon in the command of the French gar-
rison of Rome, his, we are told, announced,to his offi-
cers that he has instructions to defend Coinpachio, a
town in the Ferrarese, and Viterbo, situated forty miles
north north-West of kerne, as well as Rome itself and
Civita Vecchia. It will turn out, as usual in such
cases, that the "force of circumstances " is a. greater
authority than either of the two foregoing ones.

Intelligence of unusual interest has arrived from

Bombay. One of those fearful famines for which India
has unhappily not eeased to be remarkable, was hanging
over the Northwestern provinces, and the people had
already commenced to barter their own flesh and blood
to save themselves from‘tbe threatened starvaticn. As
regards the state of trade, it was dull; but Manchester must
look out, for the speculation in spinning and weaving
companies is so great in Bombay, that if all the projected
undertakings be carried out, there is likely to be a revo-
lution in the market for English manufactures. The
Home Government has endeavoured to levy the incom&
tax on their civil servants by telegraph, and the judges
of the Supreme Court of Bombay have set the example
of resistance to this step, by refusing to submit to the
reduction from their incomes, on the ground that the
instructions for the purpose were not published in
the Government Gazette.

An important case affecting Savings Banks has just
been decided at Leeds. A Savings Bank Company,
registered under the Limited Liability Act, has a branch
offibe at Leeds. On the window of this office was
painted the title, " Savings Bank, Incorporated by Act
of Parliament ;" while higher up, in front of the build-
ing; was displayed the legal description- of the concern,
" pistrict Savings Bank, Limited." The point tried on
Monday was, whether "Savings Bank, Incorporated by
Act of Parliament" was not a misnomer, and a contra-
vention of the statute, which attaches a penalty to the
use; in, any "notice, advertisement, or other official
publication," of a name other than that under which
the Company was 'Constituted. The Bench decided
that it was, and imposed upon the Leeds agent a fine of
£so;:r-Their Worships refused to grant a case for the
4ueen's Bench.

An :'interesting questibn is being agitated between the
War Office and the timber trade. The subject has been
repeatedly referred to in the City Article of the Timm.

An extensive firm of mahogany and timber brokers,
correspondents ef.that journals rem.allcs " Yorl/4., say that
stroilg tempkaitittkt!,•:,,c eceived regarding the
Office in refusing to entertain ten-
except through the friediirm of broke.rS,'
Might have added, and 'being so
bank f+..iteel to two firms, to ithe
exclusion trf Ail oihers,, thus 'conferring on a,, few select
.individuals a
`monopoly liable
,'to 'Vitt abuse, and
putting an extinguisher on free trade end fair
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competition in this import-An?, 't.t..'c'--,artment, so far as
the generctl• '6l' brokers and timber merchants
.i,..n5,-,Oncerned. The practice to which you have so very
properly directed public attention is of modern date,
and is a most expensive one to the nation; it opens the
door tg no end of petty favouritism and profitable ',nitro-
' nage to traders; it is questionable e 4 the, t'cote Of
tice, and most decieledrY iStitth'e:co're of Apediency.
The ;pica 'elf belini!,- able through this brokering', monopoly
"to Obtain better and cheaper goods is all fudge, •as every
one knows who is practically conversant With the
trade ; exactly the reverse is 'very ninch f'l6.rei the mark.
You have oppOttAtely opened a subject on which we
crave yot'r permission to speak a word of remonstrance.
Why should power be conferred by the Government
authorities on two, or even three, unofficial, irresponsible
brokers, which shall enable them, if they choose, suc-
cessfully to tamper with the interests and the clients of
all the other timber merchants and brokers in the
kingdom, having the often too powerful temptation of
their own material interests to do so, and this sitAirist
the interests of the ptiblic service
Yesterday morning the wretched man Youngman,
the Murderer of a family, paid the last human penalty
for his fearful crime, dying, we regret to add, without
confession.

During the firing of the salutes in honour of the
Prince of Wales, at Montreal, on the 24th ult., four
seamen were blown to pieces on board two of the men-of-
war forming the escort.

A full account of the lamentable railway accident on
the East Lancashire Railway, at Itelmshore, near Ac-
crington; by oitr special reporter, will ba fond in
Another part of cdr

• From the monthly stithniary of *reeks in the Skipping
Gazette, It appears that, daring the month .of AugUst,
`the naniber of wrecks reported was 96. In the month
of January there were 229, in February 154, in March
166, in April 133, in May 124, in June 146, and in
July 60, making a total during the preteiii year of
1,108.