The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-12-12 00:00:00

TILE PtIIIDS,

Consols Money . a a . . . .
Amottht (bet.) a . . . 92: i
lirehtqutt Bills a . a a a . 6 3 dis
Balk Btotk • • • • , . 232 4

Three per Cents 64
RAILWAYS.
Arobergate, Not., & East. Junction 81„
Oaled'orilans
Chester and Holyhead 521 31
Eastern Counties
East Lancashire

Edinburgh & Glasgow . . .
Great Northern
A.
/9 I) 1064 7.i
Great Westerns
Great Western of Canada . .
Graad Trunk of Canada . . .
Great Southern & Western . .
Lancashire & Yorkshire .• .
Lombardo-Venetian -
London & North-Western . .
London & South-Western . .
Leeds Northern
Manchester, Shed'., & Lincolnshire 4Bl
Midland Stock
North British
South-Eastern & Dover ! • .

4

York, Newcastle, & Berwick . . 104:1,-
York & North Midland . . . . 93
The following appeared in our later editions
of yesterday :
The stock markets to-day were principally influenced
by the important news from China. In lieu of mere
expedition we have a war on our hands. Its cost is the
prominent consideration. A loan may become necessary.
Under the influence of these considerations the news
from America seemed to attract only a secondary degree
of interest, and, consols declined i - to I per cent.,
closing with a heavy appearance. In the share markets
firmness prevailed, although comparative dulness was
observable at the close. Business at the discount office
at the bank was only moderate in amount, but in the
°Pen market a good demand was experienced at 41 to 5
per cent. for the best bills. Daily News City Article.
The telegram
longed
expenditurefrom
ea
asC he idn at
hseh
Eo wn ignl gi s
ha prospectfunds to oopfepnr
at-
t
a decline of 1' -
but the market ultimately exhibited a
tendency to fi
8 nnness. The demand for discount at the
Bank was limited the general rate for best paper in the
withdrawals open market
from being
the Bank. There 'yas a fall of nearly
41 per cent. There were no gold
i per cent. on the Paris Bourse, occasioned probably by
the news from China. The railway market has been in

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LIVERPOOL.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1860.

NEWS OF THE DAY.

The mat with the Chinese despatches has not yet
•attimi, bat the letters and papdrs are expected to be
delivered in London td-morrow. The Timm, as might
be supposed, expresses itsdf strongly regarding the con-
duct of the Chinese With respect to the seizure of Mr.
.parts and the other prisoners. In a leader in pester-
hys paper, the following observations are introduced,
which will meet with more than a:partial echo in the
feelings of large numbers of the people not only of
England but of Frame :—" With the dark traditions
of the prisons of Canton still in out Memory, it
We featS, hetOssaty to say *hat in other cases
We might expect might be felt without 'oar
saying it,—that, dead or alive, those missing men
must be produced. Eternal infamy would cling to
the Ambassadors, the Generals, and the armies who
should come back from Pekin without being able to
prove to the world by the palpable evidence of sense
that they have not left these men behind in the cruel
clutches of the Chinese. If the sack of the Emperor's
Palace has produced the restoration of Mr. Parkes and
Mr. Loth and M. L'Eschayrac and our thirteen soldiers
the Chinese will answer only to such persuasiveso
let us administer them day by day and hour by hour, as
lung as necessary, and, if there be no milder means Of
coercion, even destroy Pekin, palace by palace and
temple by temple, and even house by house, until we
obtain the release of Mir tonntryniert, or absolute proof
that they are litybild hitniaii aid. this is hot a matter
on which the sound-hearted English people will endure
any maudlin sentiment, and we hope that no such
unmanly tone will steal into either the despatches of the
Government or the action of Lord Elgin." We are
happy to think, howeVer, that though the hope is small
indeed Of Captain Brabaion and Mr. Boullaf being
reCoVered alive, the chances are riot yet tpiite desperate.
The actual state of the fact will probably not-be known
in this country until the arrival of the next mail after
that which is now expected:
Meanwhile, we fully share the proValent opinion as
to the allies having met with little real resistance in the
operations which terminated in the surrender of the
capital: Fikre years agb, anal:ling to an official docu-
ment reprinted by Mr. Scarth, whose account of China
and the Chinese has acquired extraordinary interest,
Owing to the recent events, the city was in a most
" perilous state." The rebels were within seventy miles
of the capital. The official writer) whose report appeared
by mistake in the Gazette, describes) with doleful earnest-
ness, "the Want of military preparation for the defence
of the capital, and the distressed condition to which the
inhabitants were reduced." The civic guards and trained
bands, elsewhere alluded to) forming the garrison of
Pekin, existed "chiefly in name ;" all they were good
for, he said, Was I, just to catch a few paltry thieves."
But the condition of the people was worse. Since 1853,
says the official document, the rich had been inventing
excuses to go away, and he calculates that in three years
no fewer than 30,000 rich families had removed from
Pekin. The applicants for the cotton-wadded garments,
annually distributed to the poor in winter, had increased
in 18.55, and the cause of the increase was the Night of
the rich, and the consequent diminution of' employMent
for the poor. The Board of Revenue determined :to
levy a tax on house rents, but when they came to col-
lect it they found the owners tendering their empty
houses in: payment, saying they found it difficult
,to
procure food and 'clothing, and therefore had no money
to pay the tax:. 06 This is. the ease in every quarter of
the city," he asserts, and condemns the levy of the extra-
ordinary tax as impolitiC. 'FiVe•years have elapsed since
this was written. If it were true at the end of 1855,
Why should it not approximate to the truth in 1860 ?
and if ice; there is an cud, at all events, of the present
dynasty. It will have lasted not more than 200 years,
and its easy extinction must in the circumstances be con-
sidered as due to the superior fighting of the allies, to
the Armstrong gun, and also to the disorganisation of
the Chinese army, caused mainly by the rebellion,
M. de Persigny has been as good as his word, so far
as regards previous offenders against the Press laws, An
Imperial decree cancelling the government notices and
subsequent suspensions given to the different journals up
to its date, was yesterday published in the Afeniteur. It
is prefaced, however, by a very significant hint to
" French journalists," that if, after such an " act of
clemency," any of them "attack the State," they will
be treated with greater severity than ever.
The reforms embraced in the programme of M.
Schmerling, the new Austrian Minister, whose accession
to office we yesterday announced, is described as a com-
plete " revolution."
Judging from the latest accounts
of the disturbed condition of Hungary and other por-
tionsof
imminent thein any
Austrianpossessions, a revolution was
circumstances.
Letters state that the mass of the population of Rome
is now suffering great privations, owing to the high
price of bread, and that expedients of all kinds are being
adopted by public and private charity to Ripply food for
the poor.
There is no news from Southern Italy.
Rumours of an intention to amalgamate the Midland