The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-06-29 00:00:00

stippinfj *tritigeure.

Wind yesterday, W.S.W„ fresh; at Holyhead, S.W., fresh,

ARRIVED

June 27. Elizabeth Baxter, Pernambuco
Regulate, Freeman, New York Osprey St. John, N.B.
11. Cay,Caulkins...New York Mary Morrison, Williams,
Oily Mannering, Dollard, Port-au-Prince
New York June 28.
Empire, Coombs, New Orleans Yorkshire, Decan...New York
Minnesota, Dishen Mobile Lucy Thompson, Child,
highland Chief, Bairstow, New York
Apalachicola Mary Cardenas
E. Greely,Cutter, New Orleans I Eliza Caroline, Hutton,
Isis, Kinnaird Wilmington Savannah
Kitty Cordes, Sopwith, Augusta Aurora, New Granada
Bombay FOrtuua, Wurn,r, Porto Plata
Nora Scotian (ss), M'Master, Universe,Hutchison,Barbados
Quebec Queen of the Lakes... Montreal
City of the .Sultan, Gilham, J Ann Nelson Honduras
. • Buenos Ayres Bolivia lquique
John Peile, Whiteway, Jhelum Valparaiso
Iquique Petrea Galveston
Queen Hortense Iquique Childe Harold Bombay
li. Nelson, Chettew ' Arica Fortitude, Job Barbadoes
Sir W. Raleigh, Roe, Jamaica Canton Darien
OFF THE PORT.

Constitution, City of Baltimore (se), Turia (ss), Montezuma;
Curilla, Salween, BeLures, Trade Wind, British Queen.
SAILED.

June 27.1
Braganza (ss), Loudon ;Oporto
Euphragia,
New York

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Thornton, Collins... New York
Sverige, Callas Kinsimbo
Ter (si), Seler Havana
Bee, Gillies Quebec
Mary, Carr Marva
Macduff, Jenkins, Monte Video
W. H. Prescott, Batchelor,
Havana
Gordon, Malzard...La Guayra

Glasgow (ss), Thompson,
New York
Palestine (Fs), Cook, Montreal

June 28.
Excelsior.Halliday,RioJaneiro
Chase, Edwards ~.New York

FOREIG,
British Flag, from Bombay ni
Casas, hence at Manilla.
Canmore, off Crane Island. •
Ann and Mary, M•Beth, from Bombay at St. Helena.
Clio. off Traverse.
Margaret Ann, in the St. Lawrence.
Bohemian (rdss), hence in the St. Lawrence; June 17.
United Kingdom (ss), in Belle Isle Straits, June 18.
Bonita (ss), hence off Belle Isle Straits, June 20.
Romeo, hence, passed Anjer, May 3.
Devon, Gray; and Eliza Ann, Logic ; both hence at Quebec
Colonist. Brown, from Rio Janeiro at Quebec.
Karnac (as), Brownleas, from Havannah at New York.
Webster, Laurence, hence at New York.
Portland, °gig*, hence at Apalachicola.
Hortensia, hence at Philadelphia.
Marian Cameron, from Melbourne at Galle, and sailed for
Bombay.
Robert Pulsford, Howson; and Patriot Queen, Fletcher ;
both hence at Calcutta.
Elizabeth, Kelso, hence at Aden. - 1
Aberaman, from Sunderland at Aden.
Brilliant, Smith, hence at Barbaciloes. -
Themis, from Calcutta at Savannah-la-Mar, and sailed for
Queenstown.
Bella, Todd, hence at Port-au-Prince.
Kestrel, Potts, hence at Lima.
Normand, from Fleetwood at Jacmel.
Boreas, Molsea, hence at St. Croix.
• SPOKEN
Dante, Rio Grande for Clyde, June 2, 6 N.,34 W.
John Piele, Coquimbo for Liverpool, June 12, 38 N., 32 W.
per Olinda.
South Sea, London for Bombay, May 17, 13 S., 30 W.
Elizabeth itonneberg, bound south, May 18, 11 S., 31 W.
Emma Sally, Greenock for Rio Janeiro' May 19, 8 S., 32 W.
Anglesea, Rio Janeiro for Cape Verde, May 21, 6 S., 31 W.
Brechin Castle, Iquique for Cork, May 27, 4N., 30 W.
H. Nelson, Arica for Liverpool, May 27, 4 N., 31 W.

PORTS.
Hong Kong.

per Curocora.
Arethusa, June 19, 45 N., 27 W.
Tacna, hence for Valparaiso, April 24, 42 N. 12 W.
laaac hence for Calcutta, April 21, 2C; S., 31 W.
Ada, Santos for hamburg, May 22, 5 S., 3 W.
Maggie Miller, Sierra. Leone for Liverpool, June 12, 33 N., 32W
Mary Wood, Ceylon for London, June 12, 34 N., 40 W.
Theron, Monte Video fur Cork, June 14, 36 N., 37 W.
lanthe, Paraiba for the Channel, June 14, 36 N., 37 W.

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per Caracca.
Ruthven, hence for Calcutta, May 23, 8 W.
W. Booth, Baltitnore for Valparaiso, June 8, 33 N., 43 W.
Thornby, bound west, May 31, 21 S., 40 W.
Demerara, bound west, May 31, 21 S., 40 W.
Sunrise, k alkland„lslands for London, June 14, 38 N., 36 W.
Blusuell, from London,.3lay.2l, 7 S., 24 W.

Per WigtOwnsfiire.
Mary Ann FeMott, May 7, 9 N., 29 W.
Urania, Buenos Ayres for London, May 29, 21 N., 40 W.
Ckilde Harald, Bombay for London, June 3, 31 N., 41 W.
Equator, Singapore for Havre, June 20, 44 N., 23 W.
per Queen Hortense.

Tonowanda, and Judah Touro, June 26, both west of Tuskar,
p',,r Empire.
Britannia, hence, June 27, twenty-five miles west of Holyhead,
per Yorkshire.
Stadacona, for Quebec, bound in, June 16, in the St. Lawrence.
Polly, Faside, Miramichi, Tinto, Orion, Huron, and Conmore,
all seven, June 16, at anchor of Crane Island-
Clio, June 16, off Traverse Lightship.
Rectitude, Manchester, and Sea King, bound down, June 17.
Margaret Ann, bound up, June 17.
Bohemian (rmss), hence for Quebec, June 17, 10 a.m. • Champion, and Harmony, bound down, June 17.
United Kingdom (s) for
Melita Quebec, June 18, 30 N.,GO W. "
(mass), "[ , once for Quebec, June 20, 54 N., 50 W... 1
per Nova Scotian (rmss). .
La Morse, May 16, 14 S. 30 W.
Catherine, from Cardiff, 2C, 30 W.
Adolph, buenos Ayres for Antwerp, June 1, 16 S., 38 W.
Mary Godard, June 10, 33 S., 41 W.
Janine, June In, 33 S., 41 W.
Copernican, June 13, 35 N.,.33 W.
Cairo, June 25,10 N., -6 W.
per M. Nelscu.
El Dorado, hence for Quebec, June 7, 46 N. 48 W.
Commodore, bound west, June 10, 48 N., 41 W.
per Sir W. italeigi.
Lillies, June 20, off Tuskar, per Resolute.,

•
OUT
PORTS .
Rvxconx, June 28.—Arrived: Exmouth, Perriam, fromD
u ;
Lugeue, Hegewiak, Antwerp;
Watkins, Wil-
liams, Arendul Hebe, Woods, 11,uen.
Emperor, Parry, from
Liiive°rlgogls;A3DiarjyunEedn2nBZsA,rrilloTsedains, Runcorn.
•Dxat., June 28.---Arrived and passed; Cceur-de-Lion, from
Colombo to London ; Mary Garland, 'Cape of Good Hope to
London; Farajhonc., Sunderland to Cap•?or Cicod Hope ; Echo,
Alva Bay to London; Hamill& Mitchell, Bombay to London;

THE DAY'S NEWS,

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For the proceedings in Parliament last night,
we refer to the report, which will he found in
another column.

The recent advices from America include
several details of considerable interest. The
Washington correspendcnt of the Neu, York
Herald states that General Harney has been
ordered to report himself to the Secretary of
War, or in other words that he has been recalled
from his command on the Pacific coast of the
United States. If this statement be correct, it
removes the apprehensions entertained that a
collision may be provoked by General Harney at
San Juan, and shows that the Washington
Cabinet disapproves the irritating and offensive
course which he has seemed determined to
pursue towards the British authorities, not-
withstanding the conciliatory instructions of
General Scott. The new tariff has been rejected
by the Senate ; and there is another item
which politicians of the Bright school would do
well to ponder, as showing the corruption which
pervades the whole Republican system in the
United States :—The House of Representatives

has passed, by_great majorities, the resolutions
recommended :by the .gominittee appointed to
inquire into the expenditure of the navy depart-
ment. These resolutions declare that the Secre,
Mary. of tli;itavy, with the sanction of the Presa::
dent, abused hiS discretionary power respecting:.
coal-Contracts; thatte.distribution of the patron-
s
the-havy among members of Congress is.
Injurious to the service; and that the Pre-
sident and the Secretary of the Navy, for consi-
dering the party connections of tenderers and the
effects ..oLawarding .00ntracts
cleserve,the reprobation,of the House.
A 'letter from Genoa, of the 25th, says I
think you may like to know that a steamer, of
800 tons and 300 horse-power, which.arrivedsthis
.morning at Genoa, has been sold to Garibaldi for
460,000 fr. It belongs to a French company, and
is called the Provence, a screw. This is the fourth
steamer bought by Garibaldi. The others are the
Amsterdam, Helvetic, and Belzunee, besides two
tugs."

A letter in the Opinion Nationale says that a
Sergeant Valentino, sent from Naples to assassinate
Garibaldi, was fortunately recognised at Palermo,
and-that he escaped from vengeanCe by jumping
into the sea and swimming to the Neapolitan
frigate Parthenope.

The Gazette de France; - which- is an authority
on such points; 'asserts in a communication frci:n
Turin, June 24th, that the territory still retained
by Austria on the south bank of the Po, and
which counts 70,000 souls, is about to become an
independent sovereignty and formed into a
separate State, under the sceptre of the ex-Duke
of Modena, who will thus reign on ground con-
terminous with his late duchy. ,‘
The Siècle had recently a long article, to prove
that it is against canon law for the. Pope to con-
tract a loan, and' many of the. Fathers have
denounced the-lending or borrowing of money on
.
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mteresi.;v-rsrnv ,rp AAA;

The Spanish Minister of Marine has stated
to the Cortes that the practical utility of iron-
plated ships had not been sufficiently demon-
strated to render outlay for such things advisable.

It, is stated that if the Great Eastern continued
to make as good a run as she had done, when last
spoken, she would arrive at New York on Wed-
nesday—a few hours over ten days.
The Earl of Shaftesbury, in a speech at Sher-
borne, alluded to the review of Saturday, and said
the Ambassador of France candidly avowed that
he had never witnessed such a spectacle in his
life. Lord Shaftesbury said to him, "It is no
threat to your imperial master ; we are not
menacing ; our men stand here in defence of that
which is our own."

The Secretary 'of War has issued _a circular to
the lord-lieutenants of counties, expressive of the
high gratification with which her Majesty's
Government have witnessed the rapid success of
the volunteer movement, and the degree of effi-
ciency to which the corps •present at the late
review have attained.

The Prince of Waled, on Wednesday, laid the
foundation stone of the Lambeth School of Art,
the first ceremony of the kind iu which his
Royal Highness has taken part. Considering the
participation of the young Prince in the scene,
the popular 'character of the institution about to
be erected, and the fact, that the site chosen for
it is Vauxhall Gardens, the proceedings could not
fail to be of an interesting chaiacter. A great
crowd of course assembled, and the spectacle was
one of considerable gaiety. After an address had
been read to his Royal Highness, he delivered a
graceful reply, and then laid the foundation
stone._

Meetings have been held in various parts of the
country to consider the high price of provisions,
which is popularly ascribed to a combination be-
tween the butchers and graziers. At Stockport
a resolution was passed to abstain from the con-
sumption of flesh meat " till family cuts are 4d,
and prime cuts are 6d a poUnd !"

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On Wednesday, information was received at the
chief Police-station, Scotland-yard, London, that
her Royal Highness the Duchess of Mecklenburg-
Strelitz, who had just arrived on a visit to her
Majesty, had been plundered of a case of costly
jewels, set with diamonds_ of the most valuable
description. On reaching Buckingham Palace
the jewel case was discovered to be missing. The
articles abstracted, independent of their intrinsic
worth, said to .exceed X 3,000, are invaluable as
family relics and presents from dear friends, and
the duchess is consequently in great trouble at
their loss.

Her Majesty will be present at .the first prize
meeting of the National Rifle Association, which
takes place on Wimbledon Common on Monday

next.

Her Majesty has offered a prize of £250- for
the best rifle shot amongst volunteers, and it is a
sine qua nun that all volunteers intending to com-
pete must appear in the uniform of their respec-
tive corps. The Prince Consort offers a prize of
£lOO open to all comers, and it is expected that a
considerable number of foreigners will enter the
lists as competitors.

TIE BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE
Acii;= ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE.

To the successful development and practical
application of SCIENCE we owe much of our
national prosperity and pre-eminence. Strange
to say, however, as a nation, we are proverbially
indifferent, neglectful, and unjust towards the
claims of scientific men on our gratitude :
for, while other less favoured nations have devoted
large funds to the advancement of Science, and
heaped wealth and the highest state honours
upon its successful cultivators, England, to her
shame, has, for the most part, 'treated them with
the most cruel disregard, and continues to mani-
fest her reluctance to own, and to discharge the
heavy obligation she owes to them.
What do we owe to Science ? Who is able to
grasp the whole subject, and reduce it to anything
like a definite statement ? • Its vastness consti-
tutes the difficulty. Let us turn -for a moment

towards A GRICULTURE, that great s! a?le
Interest—the solid basis of our material pros-
perity,—must it not have succumbed under,
in place of surmounting, all those diffi-
culties with which it has had to struggle, more
especially since the commencement of the great
experiment in free.trade in corn and other agri-
cultural products, had it been left without the
aids afforded by all-conquering Seience:—Do not
our Agricultural Exhibitions range forth to view
numberless means and appliances,—owing their
origin to the very remarkable progress which
has recently been made in all departments of
Science, and illustrating the advantages of an
intimate knowledge of the nature and relations
of various soils,—the benefit of obtaining a
correct analysis of all sorts of manures and crops,
--the superiority of drainage on scientific prin-
ciples,—and the most effective applications of
mechanical power in all fhrming operations ?
Could anything more satisfactorily prove the
directly beneficial action of abstract Science on
the everyday pursuits of agriculture ?
And is not COMMERCE—that other great
division Of our national interests—also under
a heavy debt to Science ? Has it not taught
us that knowledge of the laws —Of nature,
which gives.- us dominion over the elements,
and enables us to apply those powers so
as to extend almost indefinitely the area of our
manufactures, and thus advance the well-being
of Commerce ? Has is not taught as how to
triumph over the inertia of matter, and to with-
stand the fury of the elements in a thousand
ways? In proportion to the increased facility
and rapidity of exchange and transit of gooils,

of men, and, of thought, has not Commerce
expanded ? EVery application of pure mathe-
matics and astronomy to practical navigation—
every observation by such instruments as Science
:has perfected for the purpose,of making voyages
safer, and for giving the mariner fore-knowledge
of storms, and teaching their courses and
, lines of . intensity—have not :these each been an
important condition in_ enabling our commerce
to reach and maintain its present proud position ?
Not less, in a SANITARY point of view, do we
..owe,the.,mostikrious.obligations to Science. Who
shall estimate the value of recent scientific im-
provements in SeWage, Ventilation, and Dietetics ?
The comforts of the masses have been multiplied,
and the value of life heightened in all classes of
society ; while the benefits we enjoy every day
from the inventions and practical applications of
gas, steam, photography, telegraphy, and others
are but little thought of, because now so common.
Then, again, besides these more direct benefits, did
space permit, we might enumerate a long list of
indirect, but still most valuable results which we
have reaped from the progress of Science. ,
What could be more cheering than our future
prospects in connection with the triumphs of
Science,. if we will only pursue it p#iently and
perseveringly and support it nationally ? When.
we reflect, at hoW late and in how brief a period of
historical time, the -acquisition of so much advantage
from scientific knowledge has been achieved, we
must feel that vast as it seems, it may be,—shall
we say must be, but a very small part of the
patrimony of truth designed for our own and for
future generatidns. In the few centuries .y,hich
have elapsed since BACON lived and wrote,' not-
withstanding many difficulties and discourage;.
ments, Science has gained victories so numerous
and invaluable, so magnificent and dazzling, that
it would be. altogether vain to set any limits what-
ever to the future rewards which may attend its
experiment, conducted in conformity with the
admirable rules of research which that gifted
philosopher laid down.
What additional inducenient, then, do we need
to lead us to acknowledge our everlasting obli-
gations to Science ? Yes ; there is yet one other
important consideration namely, the fearful
penalty we must pay if we neglect her calls—for
hers is the voice of nature, and is not to be
denied her rights without inflicting terrible retri-
bution. The rapid opening up of nimy new sources
of supply in various parts of thelkorld, the pro-
gress of other nations in knowlege, freedom, and
enterprise, and the progressive modification of our
own la ws and institutions at home, form so many
powerful causes operating to set up and inten-
sify in other nations such an extraordinary
degree of competition with us in trade _and,
manufactures, as must call forth all our

energies and resources, to enable us to maintain
our foremost rank in the grand race of civilisation.
For instance, Science tells us that our agricultural
interest pays a very high penalty for its inatten-
tion to chemical science ; inasmuch as, at enor-
mous cost, we send to the antipodes for those
fertilising elements which we are wasting at
home, by running them into our rivers, to
pollute their beds, and to the great detri-
ment of health on their banks. Again ;
Science tells us that the vast annual sacri-
fice we make, in the shape of " accidents,"
in mines and on railways, by shipwrecks and con-
flagrations, and the suffering we undergo from
the breach of sanitary and dietary laws, produc-
ing disease and death in every form, are not
strictly " accidents," but inevitable results of our
ignorance or neglect of the known laws of nature
This view should come home to the inhabitants
of this great town and district, when it is stated
that the penalty we pay in this respect, namely
the annual waste of life and sacrifice of health,
when reduced to £ s. d., under the heads of sick-
ness, funerals, and labour lost is represented by a
grand total; for England and Wales, of little less
than £15,000,000, and of this enormous sum
Lancashire is said to lose upwards of £4,000,000,
or considerably more than one-fourth of the total
for the whole country.
One other illustration and we have done. We
refer, in a word, to the painful case of Dr.
SMETHURST, which about this time last year
occupied so much public attention, and proved
so signally how lamentably deficient we still are
in scientific knowledge. Now, whether that
remarkable man was guilty or innocent—whether
he was an adept in science or merely a victim to
our ignorance of it—we have in either view a
strong additional incentive to pursue scientific
investigation and experiment until we shall at
least be able to say that such a disgraceful exhi-
bition of ignorance and its lamentable results
shall never occur again.
The good we have derived from Science has
been almost in spite of ourselves ; and while
reaping the fruits, benefiting by the discoveries
and inventions, and growing great by the efforts
of its genius, we have been tco intent on reap-
ing for ourselves the golden harvest, to share
any of it with those by the sweat of whose min4s,
e have achieved our triumphs. How painful is
the contrast between our treatment of men of
Science and men of war respectively. On the one
hand we have gloated with intensest interest over
minutest details of gory battle fields, and when
the fight was o'er, have raised the successful
warrior to wealth and dignity : while on the
other, we have disowned all interest in the un-
written story of those unpatronised struggles of
the poor sons of Science, endured in the study and
exposition of truths whose practical results have
made them the great benefactors of our race, and
we have left them too often to pine in want and
die in obscure misery. What reward could have
repaid the obligation we owe to the immortal
WATT? yet he was entirely disregarded while in
life; and when it was subsequently, proposed
to pay a small national tribute to his memory
the Prime Minister of England of that day,
was not ashamed to declare, in his place in
Parliament, " that there was no precedent
for granting to intellectual merit what had been
military and naval services, and that
ent might be embarrassed by similar
accord.the
Government
oevde
rt
no
m
"claims." Rut we need not multiply instances to
prove an admitted truth. Surely this state of
things ought not, must not, continue to exist.
We only allude to the past to stimulate our still
.only half awakened sense of responsibility for the
future. Let us forthwith, as a nation, put our
shoulders to the wheel of Science, and we may
hope soon to wipe out the stain or having despised
abstract Science, the progress of which has been '
the very foundation, as it will be the only
guarantee, of our prosperity and predominant

influence.
In discharging our obligations to Science, we
cannot do better than begin by giving all neces-
sary support and encouragement to the British
Association for the .AdTancemcnt of Science,
which, it will be observed, has just commenced
its thirtieth session at Oxford, under the pre-
sidency of the Lord WROTIESLEY. This excellent
institution has already done much " for the
advancement of Science," and needs only adequate
means to achieve many more triumphs in the
boundless fields of Science.

FATA.I—PRIZE FIGHT.—A fatal prize fight between a
man named Reid, or Reddie, and another, named
M•Lachlan,.by whom Reid was challenged, took place
near Erskine Ferry, in Renfrewshire, on Monday. Both
the combatants were Irishmen, and resided in Glasgow.
Between forty 'and fifty rounds were fought in the pre -
sence, it is said, of upwards of twenty persons. The
fight lasted an hour and twenty minutes. After the
fight Reid was removed to an inn in the vicinity, where
ha shortly afterwards died. Four persons connected with
the fight have been apps ehended. It is supposed. that
the immediate cause of Reid's death was effusion of
blood upon the brain, caused by the severe blows which
the deceased, had sustained on the head: