The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-10-02 00:00:00

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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1860.

NEWS OF THE DAY.

According to the French papers of last night, King
Victor Emmanuel, after visiting Ancona, where, in addi-
tion to more than 100 disabled guns, he will find 700,000
francs at his disposal, is to proceed towards the Neapolitan
frontier. There he will, it is said, be joined by three divi-
sions of his army. This step on the part of his Majesty
is capable of being, and no doubt will be, justified on
the same, or similar grounds, as the recent invasion
of the States of the Church. But it will also, for the
first time, bring him into close contact with Garibaldi.
Will they meet as friends ? Certainly. The misunder-
standing between the Dictator and the government of
the sovereign in whose name he has acted and fought,
and, until lately, conquered, whatever may be its real
nature, is far from irreparable ; and, at all events, the
time is passed for indulging in speculations, whether
Garibaldi will be able, single-handed to beat the army
of Francis 11. in the general engagement for which he
is reported to be making preparations.
There is, however, abundant room left for indulging
in speculations as to what is about to happen in connec-
tion with the present extraordinary state of matters at
Rome. Another act in the French Papal drama has
been represewted. M. Thouvenel, it appears, tendered
his resignation to the Emperor, because the Emperor
would not give a more efficacious protection to the
Pope, hot he withdrew it as soon as the orders were
given for the despatch of the additional force of 10,000
men to Rome, to reinforce the French army of occu-
pation.

The uncertainty which has hitherto prevailed as to
the actual designs and aims of the party of " action,"
which at present has succeeded in surrounding and
influencing Garibaldi, is to some extent removed by the
following proclamation, which we find in a journal
called The New Italy, and which has been extensively
circulated in Naples :—" Let us explain ourselves
clearly. We wish Italy one. We wish that all the
parts of Italy, which are at present divided, should be
united into a single nation, without leaving any trace of
municipalism.' We do not wish, however, that Italy,
by means of partial and successive annexations, shmild
be insensibly enveloped in the legislative and adminis-
trative municipalism of Piedmont. Let Piedmont be
Italian, as Sicily and Naples become Italian, but let
not Italy become Piedmontese. We will unite 'ourselves
to the other portions of Italy, and they will unite them-
selves to us, with equality and political dignity, in order
to constitute Italy one. Let not therefore codes of laws
be imposed upon us, which are at present peculiar to
Piedmont. The peoples which have effected the
triumph of an idea with their own blood, are not
they have the right to give
codes peoples :
codes and laws to themselves. When Italy shall be one,
Sicily, Naples, Rome, Tuscany, Lombardy, Venice,
and
Piedmont, ought, on terms of perfect equality, to concur
in the formation of the political and civil code of Italy.
Thus thinks, or ought to think, whoever is an Italian,
for Italy."
From this document we gather that jealousy of Pied-
mont is what prevents the Mazzinists from uniting with
Victor Emmanuel and separates them from Cavour,
and that what keeps the Government of Piedmont aloof
from them is, the fact of their declining to go into any
scheme of Italian " unification " which does not'embrace
Rome and Venice.

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A letter from Vienna, dated the 25th ult., to the
Frankfort Journal, states that the Emperor Joseph has
given orders for the immediate levy of 100,000 men.
Ths necessary measures for obtaining the requisite num-
ber of recruits are to be commenced in the course of the

present week, and they are to be completed, if possible,
within three months. In ordinary circumstances the
additional levy would not have been made until the
spring of 1861, but the extreme gravity of the events
which have occurred, and are occurring, in Italy, have
rendered it absolutely necessary to have recourse to this
unexpected step. It is further said, that the Austrian
commander-in-chief has proposed to the Emperor that
in case of a war breaking out in Italy, the soldhirs
should have a certain allowance of coffee given to them
every day, in addition to the usual rations. One may
venture to hope that the coffee berries will be previously
ground.

Numerous arrests still continue to be effected in
Hungary, and it is reported that orders have been
given for further strengthening the fortifications of the
Austrian ports on the Adriatic. This latter step may
be only a measure of precaution, but it may be also
taken in anticipation of an attaek by the Sardo-
Neapolitan navy, now that the fall of Anemia has
rendered the fleet available for further operations.
The new Victoria Railway Station of the London and
Brighton line was opened yesterday morning. It is an
elegant structure, though not yet finished. The terminus,
which is close to Buckingham Palace, will afford great
facilities for transit from the 'West End to the pleasant
suburbs of Streatham, Balham, Norwood, Sydenham,
&c., and will be a favourite route to the Crystal Palace.
There has been another Conservative triumph in the
Registration Courts. At the revision at Weymouth on
Saturday fifteen Conservative claims were admitted, and
all their objections against the opposite party were sub•
stantiated.

The demise of the widow of the late Duke Ernest of
Saxe Coburg Gotha has thrown into mourning several
of the sovereign courts of Germany. The lamented
princess's funeral took place at Gotha on Thursday last,
when the. Prince Consort, the Duke of Saxe Coburg
Gotha, and the Prince Frederick William of Prussia
assisted at the obsequies. Her late royal highness, who
since the decease of her husband in January, 1844, had
led a retired and unobtrusive life, was the eldest
daughter of his Royal Highness the Duke Alex-
ander Frederick Charles of Wurtemburg and the
Duchess Antoinette of Saxe Saalfield Coburg. She was
born Sept. 17, 1799, and married, Dec. 23, 1832, the
late Duke Ernest of Saxe Coburg Gotha father of the
reigning Grand Duke and the Prince Consort of het
Majesty, but left no issue by that ptince, who died lit
1844, as before stated. The courts of Wiirtemburgf
Belgium, and Portugal are placed in motiriiing by the
event, as well as our own royal family and the ex:royal
family of France, the elder brother (the Duke' filet
ander) of the late duchess having married the Ptineestt
Marie, daughter of the late King Louis Philippe.
The following are some particulars regarding the
recent arrival of specie at Southampton by the Tasma-
nian steamer from the West Indies :—The value of the
specie was 5,662,000 dols., or about £1,180,000 sterling,
and as nearly the whole of it consisted of silver, being
dollars from Mexico, its total weight exceeded 156
tons. The Tasmanian, belonging to the Royal Mail
Steam-packet Company, arrived in Southampton
Dock. at 9.30 a.rn. of the 27th ult., and although
the treasure was contained in no less than 2,168
packages, the whole of it was landed in seven hours.
It was then deposited in 36 railway waggons, which,
forming a special train, drawn by two engines, reached
the Nine-elms station of the South-Western Railway
early the following morning. The treasure was then,
transferred from the railway waggons to 36 street wag-
gons and vans, which latter, drawn by upwards of 700'
horses, reached the Bank of England about ten
and the entire cargo was safely deposited in the vaults
of that establishment by five p.m. the same day.
Miring September the aspect of steam-shipping affairs
has undergone very little change ; but it is certainly
provingf as regards both purchase and freightage. The
sale of second-hand steamers has averaged a) fair propor-
tion, although sine e the addition of the Neapolitan ships
of war to the Sardiniak navy the previously existing•
requirements in that quarter have ceased. A few
building establishments have obtained' fresh contracts
for new ships ; otherwise there is not much in that
department to notice. Owing to the unfavourable state
of the weather for our home harvest, and rumoured
deficiency of the crops, there has been a tolerable
demand for steamers to load grain from the Baltic and
from the lower French ports. From the Mediterranean
freights are still offering; but paucity of outward
cargoes checks the acceptance of such charters, as the
owners of suitable steamers prefer engaging them in the
coasting and coal trades, for which good rates are quoted.
Yesterday morning Mr. William Payne, the coroner
for Sokthwark, received information of the death of
Dennis Dulla, aged 36, a corn porter, of Tooley-street,
Bermondsey. The deceased was at work at a granary
at Rotherhithe-wall, and in suddenly turning. fell
through one of the loopholes in the warehouse. He was
picked up insensible, and taken to Mr. Murdock's, sur-
geon, but the injuries were of such frightful extent that
he died shortly after.

A singular circumstance has come to light in refe-
rence to James Pierce and Emily Lawrence, tried at
the Central Criminal Court, and convicted of rob-
bing several jewellers at the west end, and also sup-
posed to bo concerned in the robbery of jewels of the
value of £IO,SOO from a jeweller's in the Palais Royal
at Paris. After the sentence Pierce was removed to
the Millbank Penitentiary, and shortly after he gave
his shirt to be washed, but subsequently appeared very
anxious to get it baek again, and asked the warder to
let him have it, but could assign no reason, any other
than he wanted the garment. This excited suspicion ;.
and on carefully examining the shirt something hard
was found in the upper part of it, apparently sown into
the stuff, which, on being cut out, proved to be a dia•
mond, valued at nearly £lOO.

"TABLE TURNING," &c. ; OR, HOW AND

WHAT TO BELIEVE.

How and what to believe is one of the least
popularly understood sciences. Nor is this
difficult to account for. As the lamps of know-
ledge, lit at the great Greek and Latin centres of
European civilisation, were gradually swallowed
up in the thick darkness of mediaeval ages, the
intellectual faculties of the people became
benumbed and wrapt in a moral torpidity. It
was only with that revival of learning which
followed the invention of Printing, that the
minds of men began to awaken to a new sense of
the right of private Judgment; and although
some three hundred years have elapsed since the
glorious Reformation began to spread its stimu-
lating influence over Western Europe, it is not
wonderful that even that lengthened period has
been insufficient fully to emancipate the masses
from the thraldom of chains which took a
thousand years to rivet around their minds. Like
the blind man who had his eyesight suddenly
and miraculously restored to him : when he first
looked up he saw men as trees walking, and it
required a second miracle to enable him
so to exercise his powers as to see
every man clearly,—the enthralled nations
who received the light of liberty by throwing off
the thick scales of Popish darkness, have been
slow to learn the proper exercise of those powers
of thought, and that freedom of belief restored to
them at so comparatively recent a period. The
consequences have been very manifest in this and
in every other free country. To enumerate all
therin creeds,
foin
dogmas, and systems which have
a
time to time, claiming in the name of
truths arisen
the
allegiance of all men, and gaining with
varying success the adhesion of men of reputed
intelligence and social position, would. of itself
fill a long and wide-spread catalogue of absur-
dities. Perplexed and puzzled, by these endless
and contradictory varieties of pretensions and
principles, many have given way to a reactionary
impulse, and settled down in a dogged disbelief
of everything that is not directly appreciable to
the senses; while others have gone so far as to
believe nothing at all,—denying even the common
aphorism that " seeing is believing,"—mistrusting
their very eyesight, and as it were yielding them-
selves up to be carried along by the current of
the tide of life, in a state of listless indifference
as to whither it might lead them, and in a spirit
of hopelessness and incredulity as to the powers
of the human mind, and the value of mundane
philosophy. How and what to believe has been,
and is to many, an insoluble riddle—an ignis
faults, the pursuit of which tempts the benighted
traveller into a bottomless and fatal morass. Is
there, then, no sure and safe high road to truth ?
Is there no mid-way station between the extremes
of believing too much, and believing nothing at
all ?

" Table-turning," " Clairvoyance," and other
manifestations of the same type, are some of
those " facts" of our own day which especially
provoke reflection on the correct and only
reliable rules which ought to guide all men as to
how and what they ought to believe. We find in
almost every circle persons of all ages and both
sexes who have been conscientiously impressed
with the belief that through some "spiritual 0
or other mysterious agency communications GO