The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-11-17 00:00:00

THE BANK RETURNS.

£3,191,718

Rent.

Increase._ £23,138

Public Deposits X5,804,022
Other Deposits ' 12,603,792
On the other side of the account :

Government 5ecuritie5....L9,490,273
Other Securities
Notes Vnemployed 6,388,385

The amouni of Notes, in circulation is £20,659,270,
being a decrease of £546,800; and the stock of bullion
in both departments is £13,314,811, showing a decrease
of £582,274 when compared with the preceding return.
The annoUndetrient of the arrival, yesterday, of
quarter •of a million of gold fiOm Anstralia has had EL
decided tendency to counteract the effeCte (it the tem-;
porary increase in the value of money'-the -Stissei
having arrived off Plymouth, from Melboutlidi with
gold valued at £249,000.
It will be learnt with satisfaction in most quarters
that the joint-stock banks and discount establishments
have come' to 'an agreement to depart from the practice
of raising the rates for loans and deposits in enact pto•
portion to the rise in the Bank of England rate of dip
count. There has been on former occasions too eager
a competition for money) and, as a natural, result,
too eager a competition. to, employ it. The joint-stock
banks have 'now decided to allow q per cent' for
deposits, in lieu of 5. (i.e., 1. per cent. under_the Bank
fn4iiiritini), which would have been offered according to
the pradide hitherto prevailing. 'The wily deviations
from this decision are that the London and Westminster
Bank give only 3 per cent. for lepdsiis below £500;
and that the Commercial, whilst offering only 4 for
new depositS, consider themselves bound to allow 5 pei
cent. upon the sums previu;lslY lodged with them.
The Lombard-street diScount houses and the
Discount Company have raised their rates from 4 to 41
per cent. for money "at call," and from 41 to 5 per
cent. for money "at ribtice." lied the old practice
been .adhered _the rates new in force would have
been, respectively, 5 and 51:

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRANCE.
(FROM OUR OIiTN CORRESPONDENT.)

PARIS, Thursday, Nov. 15.
A letter from Palermo states that fresh endea-
vours have been made to induce the commandant
of the citadel of Messina to withdraw from that
fortress, with the Neapolitan troops under his
orders. It was represented to him that the vote
of the Sicilians was definitively decisive of the
fate of the island, and that the King of Naples,
shut up in Gaeta, had ceased to reign. To this
General Pergola answered that he knew of
nothing beyond the trust that had been confided
in him, and that he would deliver up the citadel
only when he received the orders of Francis 11.
to do so ; and that should any attempt be made
to take it by force, he would defend it to the last
extremity. In these circumstances, it is thought
that no further step wilt be taken in the matter,
until the arrival of Victor Emmanuel in Sicily. •
A prosecution has been instituted against Le
Union for having in its number of Saturday;
the 10th November, published, under the heading
"On nous eerit de Turin, 7 Noveinbre," au
article in which was reproduced the statement
relative to,a pretended note from the Austrian
Ambassador, which statement had previously
been put forth by the Opinion Nationale in an
article, entitled " Un Casus Belli," iu its "number
of, 17th October, and had led to the prosecution
of MM. Guerouelt and Dubuisson before the
Correctional Police.

The Patrie of this evening states that the
steam transport the Weser, belonging to the Im-
perial navy, left Singapore on the ith ult., on its
way from Petchili to Suez, where it is to take on
board detachments of troops which have been
sent to China in order to fill up the vacancies
which have occurred in the expeditionary corps
under the order of General de Montauban. The
two other transports, the Japan and the European,
were to leave China at the end of last month, to
accompany the Weser on the voyage.

A curious scene took place the-other day, at
noon, on the Boulevard des Italiens. A gentle-
mun who was passing along the Boulevard on
horsebick, coming from the direction of the
Madeleine, all at once jumped off his horse, and.
walking straight- up to a young gentleman and a
young lady, who were dressed in the extreme of
elegance, he stopped right in front of them, so as
bar their progress, and struck the young man a
blow on the face.; then, instantly remounting his
horse, which was held by his servant by the
bridle, he rode off rapidly, and disappeared
amongst the carriages which were passing and.
repassing at the moment. This scene, as may be
supposed, excited no little degree of commotion
among the passers-by. "It is a case of a lover
betrayed," said one ; "It is an injured husband "
said another ; and in the meantime the young
couple, pale, and with the utmost dismay in their
looks, made as fast as they could for the nearest
side street, and disappeared in their turn. Nothing
further has been heard of the affair, which greatly
enlivened the comparative dulness of the Boule-
vard at that early hour.
It is asserted that great pressure is being em-
ployed at present by all the great Powers, to.
induce Austria to sell Venice. Whether or no.
the Emperor Joseph may be disposed to listen to
these counsels, it is not probable that he will take
so weighty a step, in which the whole of Germany
is unquestionably interested, without eonsulting
the Diet of Frankfort. It is stated also that a
Venetian Committee has been formed at Milan, and.
the presidency of it offered to Garibaldi.
The Empress was conducted on her way to the
railway station by the Emperor. The two ladies-
of-honour who are to be in attendance on her
Imperial Majesty during her journey are Mes-
dames de Sault), and de Montebello. The Court
goes immediately to Compiegne for some days ;
but as the Empress will return to France before
the term of mourning for her sister is expired,
none of the usual fetes will take place, the
pleasures of the chase being alone indulged in.
The return of Count de Persigny to France 15
again looked for.
The present scarcity of bullion in the coffers of
the Bank of France, and the intelligence that the

Bank of England had repeated the operation of
raising the rate of discount, brought to-day a

vast number of sellers into the market, and the
result was a fall in Rente, which closed at 69f. 60c.

Railway shares have
_participated largely in the

downward movement.

ORGANISATION OF THE NEW
ITALIAN NAVY.
FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.)

GENOA, Nov. 13.

The following account of the measures which.
have beeii adopted at Turin for the organisation
of a navy ,cor the new Italian kingdom, affords a.
fresh proof o f the energy which M. de Cavour is
bringing to beer on the consolidation of the new'
state of the kingaom, and also an additional indica-
tion of his determination to secure for the Govern- r
ment of Victor Emmanuel that maritime rank
which he is too astute not to perceive is abso
lutely essential to the maintenance of the great-
ness of the new kingdom, as well as for its.
defence.
In the first place, the system of naval inscrip-
tion or conscription which prevails in France is to
be adopted, and is to be instituted forthwith. It
will be applicable to the whole coast of ,ItalY,
which, for this purpose, will be divided into
different districts, each of which have sub-
ordinance divisions and depOts. Next, the port
of Ancona, which is destined and intended to be-
come the maritime arsenal of Italy on the Adriatic,
will be at the same time the principal maritime
division of the whole of the seaboard of the States
of the Church, and also of a portion of the
Neapolitan coast. It will 4avu under it OW