The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-04-02 00:00:00

PEE DAY'S NEWS.

The House of Lords met on Saturday for
formal business, when the royal assent was given
by commission to the mutiny and other bills.
The Income-tax and Stamp Duties Bills were
read a first time.
The House of Commons likewise met, and
passed the Income-tax and Stamp Duties Bills,
omitting in the latter the clause imposing a duty
on contract notes, in respect of which the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer undertook to bring in a
bill after Easter.
It has doubtless been by design that the act of
Papal excommunication which has just been
drawn up and issued, accuses no person by name,
and therefore involves none of the serious conse-
quences that would otherwise have followed upon
such an act, His Holiness is evidently reluctant
to proceed to extremities, in a case which it is
evident might involve him in direct hostilities
with more than one of the crowned heads of
Europe, if not also occasion a grievous schism in
the Roman Church.
Our latest accounts from Rome represent the
state of public feeling to get more and more
excited ;. 'and they confirm the idea expressed
above, of the anxiety of the Pope to avoid, if pos-
sible,- an open rupture with King Victor Emma-
nuel, by still endeavouringto 'dissuade him against
his occupation of the Legations. A large Papal
army is now at Ancona—we may presume with
the view of resisting that meditated occupation.
Meanwhile,' revolutionary demonstrations con-
tinue in the Holy City, which show that public
feeling is decidedly against any such resistance.
Things appear agitated and strange in Switzer-
land, in consequence of the French aggressions
upon their neighbouring territories. The Federal
Council is sending a Commissioner to Geneva, in
Order to place the contingent of that canton under
military command. Meanwhile a body of Savoy-
ards have taken advantage apparently of the
excitement that prevails, to seize upon a Steam-.
boat, and make for Thonon, a town of some
consequence, about sixteen miles north-east
of Geneva--with what precise object does
not so far appear; but we are assured that
the Federal Council had determined to take severe
measures against the outrage, be its object what
it might. In the midst of all this, the celebrated
Garibaldi, who has turned out to be a native and
citizen of Nice, and has therefore become a sub-
ject of France, has been elected deputy for that
province—an office that may afford him the
opportunity, perhaps, of distinguishing himself
anew in the service of his country.
The French pressis remarking, and not with-
out considerable point, on what it considers the
contradictory conduct of the English Government
in disapproving of the annexation of Savoy to
France, after having encouraged the annexation
of Central Italy to Piedmont---and even, it is
asserted, approving of a further project of annexa-
tion to Piedmont of the States of the Church,
and even of Naples. The contradiction, as respects
Savoy, is regarded as all the more signal on the
part of England, after refusing to accede "to the
desire of the ionian Isles to be annexed, or rather

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re-united to Greece. Certainly the ipterferenee
of the Coalition Cabinet in these Italian and

French affairs b,as been anything but consistent,
and by no means conducive either to the honour

of this country or the permanent peace of Europe.
" Least said soonest mended" is an old p,roverb,
and frequently' is a very safe one to observe. It
is evident thqt Ministers thought so the other