The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-08-23 00:00:00

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ERRATUM.-At the commencement of the fourth paragraph of
yesterday's news of the day, there is an obvious misprint of
" Sicilians" for " Calabrians.'

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THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 1860.

NEWS OF THE DAY.

The House of Commons sat yesterday from twelve
o'clock till six. The Home Secretary observed, with
reference to the fine inflicted on Mr. Evelyn, the sheriff
of Surrey, that it had been properly imposed by the
judges, and that any application to the Crown for its
remission, could only be made by Mr. Evelyn himself.
A great many bills of varied importance and magnitude
were passed at this sitting, for the particulars of which
we refer to our telegraphic summary.
The telegraphic communication between Naples and
other parts of Italy has been so far restored as to permit
of our receiving news from that city, by way of Florence,
down to so late as Tuesday evening last ; and if we are
to believe the intelligence which has thus come to us,
Garibaldi and his army were, on the morning of that
day, safely disembarked at Bagnara, a Calabrian seaport,
not far from the straits of Messina, and about fifteen
miles from Reggio. The flotilla in which the troops
and their daring leader were wafted across the straits is
said to have consisted of 130 vessels, and judging from
the large number of men, and the very considerable
amount of materiel, which had been got together for the
expedition, there is little doubt but that the fora which
is at this moment advancing to the overthrow of Francis
11. and his dynasty exceeds 10,000 men. One of the
effects of the appearance of Garibaldi on the mainland,
has been a revolution in the maritime Neapolitan
province of Basilicata, and the establishment of a Pro-
visional Government at Potenza, its chief town. This
district lies between Calabria and the city of Naples, so
that a considerable portion of the distance which now
separates Garibaldi and his followers from thecapital is
already prepared for his free passage. The next telegram
from Naples will probably announce that city to be also
in insurrection, and that the King has at length availed
himself of the means of retiring which have for some
time past been at his disposal. There was lying at
anchor under the palace windows, at the date of the last
accounts, the Arthur, a clipper war schooner, laden with
specie to the amount of thirty million ducats, which was
only waiting for a favourable moment to sheer off for
Trieste round Sicily, intending to give that island a
wide berth. In the absence of M. Manna in Paris, ten
millions more have been abstracted from the public
service, being the produce of rentes inscribed on thf
State ledger (Ist May and 6th June of the current
year), burdening the kingdom with the annual pay-
ment of fifty thousand ducats as- a legacy. This
plunder will, of course, be watched on its way, but
the departure of the Bing will not be interfered with
Meantime, the same telegram tells us, that the elections
have been adjourned until the end of next month, and
that the new Neapolitan Parliament is to be assemblei
on the 20th of October. It is not likely to be opened by
Francis 11. iu person. A telegram received subse-
quently, from Messina, though prior in date to that from
Florence, specifies Melito as the point on the Calabriaa
coast on which Garibaldi has landed, and it mentions
3,800 as the number of men who accompanied him, but
this refers probably merely to a part of the force.
Conjectures are rife as to the object of Garibaldi's
alleged visit to Cagliari ; the most *belle explanation
is that M. Bertani was very anxious to baye an inter-

view with chief, respecting the disposal of the 6,000
or 6,000 volunteers whom he had collected at Genoa,
and that the island or islet of Madalena, which is not
far from Cagliari in Sardinia, and belongs in property to
Garibaldi, was selected for this purpose.
As respects this last movement of his, there can be uo
doubt that it is the one he has contemplated for some
time back. So far as we can at present judge, there is
every probability, as is usual with him, of its being
crowned with success. He has thus again shown, as
he did in Lombardy last year, that what in his exploits
appears to the ignorant, mere reckless daring, is, in
fact, the result of deliberate calculation and collected
forethought. With incredible fertility of resource, he
has shown how to make the most of the smallest means,
and it is again to be noted- that the foolhardy actions
of which he has been repeatedly accused beforehand
have never taken place, whilst his astonishing victories
have been the victories of that sure and calm judgment
of opportunities, which, in the rapidity of its results,
looks like audacity, but never fail to end in success.
The affairs of the Spanish Government are again
in a bad way, as we are informed. The Madrid jour-
nals of the 17th say that, in addition to embezzlements
recently discovered in the different Government offices,
new ones have just been brought to light in the finance
department at Coruuna and in the Treasurer's office of
the province of Lerida, the former amounting to the
sum of 300,000 reals (the real is 25c). The journals
complain loudly of these frauds, and demand a searching
investigation into the financial situation of all depart-
ments of the Government.

The accounts from Valparaiso by the last mail give
details of the successful exposure of an extraordinary
insurance fraud. A merchant, of fair standing and
excellent family connections, pretended to be engaged
in buying up gold doubloons for shipment on board a
vessel he had lately purchased. He made up boxes
purporting to contain £30,000, but which, instead, were
filled with stones ; while at the same time he extracted
£20,000 from other boxes which had been sent on board
as freight. He accompanied the vessel himself, and
after a certain period news arrived that she had foun-
dered off Rio Grande, Brazil. The value of the gold
was claimed from the underwriters, and two insurance
companies at Valparaiso paid their policies, but a com-
pany in New York and Lloyd's in London refused to
settle without further explanation. The result has been
that they have unravelled the whole affair, the agent of
the delinquent having made full confession.
A return, just issued, states that in their administra-
tion of the property which has come under their charge,
the Ecclesiastical Commissioners have augmented 249
benefices by grants of capital sums, amounting together
to £241,977, and that they have allotted to 1,178 bene-
fices annual grants amounting together to £90,079. The
dioceses that have had most are Lichfield, Ripon, and
Manchester; those that have had least, Norwich, Ely,
Hereford, and the Welsh dioceses (except St. Asaph).
A return, made a few weeks ago, showed that the sums
which has been expended by the Commissioners • upon
bishops' residences amount to £57,702 ; they found
three bishops (Manchester, Ripon, and Llandaff) with
no episcopal residence, and another (Lincoln) with none
within the diocese. •

The eleventh weekly report, containing a statement o:

all moneys subscribed in support of the strike at Colne,
for the week ending August 13th, has been issued to
the power-loom weavers of Lancashire, Yorkshire,
Cheshire, Derbyshire, and the public generally. Cash
seems to flow in rather copiously. Thirty-one townEl
most of them Lancashire towns, have sent in sub-
scriptions. The respective amounts vary from £135
at Blackburn to 11s. Bd. at Royton, the entire
amount for the week being f 638 ss. sid. The

expenditure shows £6 for four advocates, at 30s. a
week; advocates' railway fares, £3 18s 80 ; general
secretary's railway fares, £1 3s 7d ; expenses of depu-
ties, £4 9s; printing 18,500 balance sheets, £3O 19s 9d;
in all between £5O and £6O in expenses, being at the
rate of £3,000 a year. An item of £7 14s 6d appears
for expenses of parties going to work elsewhere. The
rest, excepting £2B 2s 8d which goes to the reserved
fund, and £4O cash advanced to Bolton, object not
apparent, was distributed amongst the workpeople out
on strike.

The trial of Thomas Winslow for the murder of Mrs.
James, by the administration of antimony, was brought
to a conclusion yesterday, at mid-day. The jury returned
an immediate verdict of " Not Guilty."
Some very interesting facts appear in the published
results of the Indian Civil Service Examination of this
year. For the Indian service eighty gentlemen have been
selected, after the usual competition open to all natural-
born subjects of the Queen. The whole number of
candidates is not stated. Last year there were forty
places and one hundred and nineteen candidates ; and
we may suppose double the number of candidates this
year for the eighty places thrown open. It may excite
surprise that, considering how perfectly free all of the
required age and health are to enter in, there should be
so few of our young healthy students anxious to secure
first rate openings in India.
Active preparations are making for the fourth annual
meeting of the National Association for the Promotion
of Social Science, which commences in Glasgow on the
24th proximo. The meeting promises to be interesting.
By telegram received from Lisbon yesterday morning
it appears that the captain and missing portion of the
crew of the steamer Ganges have arrived in safety there
from Teneriffe.
The Naval Discipline Bill, which passed through
committee on Tuesday evening, after a very sensible
debate, embodies the changes which the lapse of time
has rendered imperative in the old code. The bill,
which will shortly become law, greatly improves the con-
stitution of naval courts-martial, extending to lieutenants
the right of sitting on these tribunals, and giving the court
power to inflict a variety of punishments instead of limiting
their decision to death or acquittal. The bill classifies
crimes, and takes into consideration motives and inten-
tions. The punishment of death is to be sparingly
employed, and only in cases where flagrant crimes have
been committedl—sttch as treachery, cowardice, and
desertion of a post before the enemy. An important
modification has also been made in regard to corporal
punishment.

The statistics of the Oxford Local Examinations show
some facts not very satisfactory as regards the progress of
general elementary education. The number and propor-
tion of successful candidates (498 out of 875) is greater
this year than last year, when it was only 413 out of 896.
But the causes of the failures this year are sadly indicative
of the bad training in ordinary English education given
in some of our best schools. Qut of 292 senior candi-
dates (boys from fifteen to eighteen) 118 failed to satisfy
the examiners in the preliminary examination—mainly,
reading, writing, and arithmetic. (Last year only
eighty-nine seniors failed out of two hundred and
ninety-nine entirely examined.)