The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-11-14 00:00:00

deuce of the great number of the red shirts that
have arrived, and are to arrive from different
parts of Naples. The government were detertni-
ned not to give the prisoners of Capea a chance
to follow their companions, who fled to the
Papal States, as reported in a telegrain copied
from the Daily Areevs, having sent 5,000 of the
prisoners to Genoa, 1,400 of which have arrived
in this city within the last twenty-four hours, to
be incorporated with the Sardinian army. , Our
latest news from Vienna is that a constitution is
to be given to the Venetians, free pardon to ail
political offenders, and that the Doke Maximilian,
brother of the Emperor, who two rears 'ago *as
rather pOpular in Milar.4 is to be appointed
viceroy. The launch of the war frigate Duke
of Genoa took place on the 6th instant at Genoa,
under not eery happy circumstances, having., in
her slide from the blocks, carried away a part of
the stone Wall) which fell 'upon the. people,
occupying a species of 41i4r tithing three
et four persons; and tfferely wounding about a
&ten otlitrt, among whom is '`jeling midship-
than, who has,ivcn the brightest promise of
ber-- •
an honour to the Sardinian navy.
The two princes, their sister, and Cavour, were
present during the launch, and had the pain to
witness this accident. No news from Gaeta up
to this hour, 4 p.m. ; but there can he ho doubt,
from our latest accounts, that the unfortunate
and betrayed young monarch, and his youthful
queen, will in a few days be obliged to take a
farewell of their kingdom.

THE AUSTRIAN DEFENCES ON. THE
ADRIATR; bOAST.•

(FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.)

TRIESTE, Nov. 10.

The following is an account of the measures
*which the Austrian Government is at this moment
engaged in carrying out for the defence of its
Possessions on the eastern coast of the Adriatic;
the details will be found very interesting
The coast in question eoniprehetids nuz.erous
gulfs and anchorage groittids, which render the
Watching of it a more difficult affair than that of
the Venetian coast. The first measure adopted was
the creation of a sT.,,,em of semaphore signals, the
execution of which has just been accomplithed.
means of this . special system, which id
Other respects periMitS o 'correspondence being
bhiiiid OW by the ordinary telegraph, all points
on the coast are put in communication one
With the other, from the gulf of Trieste to
the frontier of Turkey. In less than an hour
'warnings and orders can be transmitted from one
extremity of the coast to the other. A disem-
barkation or an attack will thus almost instantly
be made known. Further, the defences and the
garrisons of the fortresses on the coast have been
considerably. augmented; batteries have been
erected in places where the nature of the coast
Suggests facilities for the disembarkation of
troops ; and three entrenched camps are about to
be formed—one above De Pola, on the west coast
of Istria; another at Fiume, the chief place of
the district, on the Hungarian boast) *hose har-
bour is situated at the nio'lth of the Fiumara, a
river which empties itself into the gulf or sea of
quarnero; itia the third between Sebenico and
bort46, k Dalmatia,
The object of all these important strategical
fta•
ZtlilreeS is, to effect a complete isolation of the
loge district comprised between the sea on the
one part, the aulian Alps and the Dinaric
Alps on the other, front the interior Provinces
of the Empire, and to pre'vent any insurrectionary
expedition from extending itself, in case of its
sOcceeding in effecting a disembarkation in spite
of the *vigilance of the military authorities. It is
unnecessary to add that the whole of the fore-
going precautionary measures have been ordered
iii consequence of the demonstrations and menaces
hiatle in open day by Garibaldi and by the
generals under his orders, from time to time,
Since the commencement of the operations in
The Court of Vienna is tiding as if
it fully anticipated an attaek bn a tarp scale
by a considerable &tee of the Italians against
Venetia, and also a diversion on the eastern
toast of the Adriatic, to favour the success of that
attack t mia. the defensive steps which the
-Austrians have thus taken are of so formidable a
Oharacter that it would be necessary, in order to
tb,e execution of a combined operation upon the
Venetian seaboard and upon the coast of
balm.atia, that the invaders should have at their
command a double army and a double fleet, both
in each case fully equipped and organised, and
both also numerous and powerful.

Letters from Vienna, as well as the. Austrian
journals themselves, are making uncomfortable
allusions to the real state of things in the empire.
The government has not succeeded in regaining
public confidence, and a persuasion seems to be
Prevalent, in many quarters deserving of atten-
tion, that the reforms recently announced are to
11'e regarded, to some extent at least, as a political
expedient, rather than as a concession sincerely
and honestly made to the just desires of the
people; but time will soon put the accuracy of
this opinion to the test.