The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1861-01-28 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRANCE.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, 'Jan, 26, 1861'.
Enrolments in the military service of the Pope
are still being actively carried on in France, and
even in Paris itself. It is also reported that a
number of Frenchmen have expressed their deter-
mination to throw themselves into Messina:in
order to assist in die tidtitintiance of the defence
of that fortress, which, as you, ure tittdre; still
holds out. The more recent despatches front
Sicily speak of numerous executions of insurgents
by the Piedmontese, a circumstance which would
be a matter of no small regret if it were'the actual
soldiers of Francis 11. who were thus dealt with,
but as the persons executed are members of the
ntinieretiS gatigS of ruffianly bandits) by whom the
island has been long infested; Chid who 'are at
open war against all governments; the Govern.
rent of Victor Emmanuel cannot .be justly
blamed for such severity.
It is now all but positive, that an international
conference for the discussion of the affairs of
Syria; is td assertible on sonic day not later than
the 15th of next iS understood that
the English and Turkish goVeinMteni4 Het
posed that the meeting should .be held in Ceii:
stantinople, but that France insists on its taking
place in Paris.
According to present appearances, there is not
Much chance of Gaeta surrendering previous to
the day fixed for the election to the-new Italian Par-
liament. This result will be no small disappoint-
ment to the friends of M. Cavour, who have been .
fully calculating on the surrender of the place at
an earlier date. The confidence of Francis 11. in
his ability to hold out some time longer, seems at
all events in no ways abatted ; for he has readily
accepted the offer of several of the foreign
ambasSadors to remain at Gaeta. His young
Queen contributes fully as much as himself
to the support and encouragement of the
morale of the garrison. After the terrific bom-
bardment of the Bth instant, she visited on horse-
back all the batteries, thanking the defenders in
the roost capti.Vating manner for. their courage
and devotions rind afterwards Went to all the
hospitals to sec rind eondole With the wounded:
On the other hand if is asserted that the edit/2
manders of the troops in garrison nie by do means
unanimous in the hope of being able td sqs`tain
prolonged resistance ; and, further, that the'
tary condition of the place, which was never par'-:
titularly good, has been made a great deal worse
by the' assembling Of such a large number of.men:
(14,000 or 15,000) within so limited a space, few of
whom have been out of it for the hot taro 'Months.
Of course one must be careful not to assigil Uircitie
credence to the rumours referred to on this
ject, which have been circulated within the last
few days„ but at the same time there can be no
doubt that there has been already a great deal of
sickness in both armies. If typhus has not already
broken out among the garrison, the atmosphere of
the place must by this time undoubtedly offer
very favourable conditions for its development ;
and as to the besiegers, it is impossible to suppose
that they have not suffered greatly from the exces-
sive rains and the incessant fatigues which they
have undergone since they first took ground before
the fortress. In fact,' according to the latest
accounts from Naples; a considerable number of
Tiedmontese officers, who have been invalided,
-have already arrived in:that city, and they declare
that typhus fever has already broken out in the ,
ranks of the besiegers, and has committed great
ravages. It is also rumoured that theSe officers
have brought the fever with them,and that it has,
broken 'out with great violence in several localities
in Naples.

A deficit of £4,000,000 is apprehended in the
forthcoming Budget to be presented to the Italian
Parliament, of which sum £640,000 was incurred
in disbanding the army of Southern Italy.
According to a report presented by General
Acerbi, Commissary-General of that ' army, the
total expense of the expeditionary force—which
amounted to 35,000 menu-from its departure from
Genoa to its arrival at Marsala, until the demis-
sion.by Garibaldi of his powers, did not exceed '
£BOO,OOO, inclusive of the cost of war steamers
and war materiel purchased in foreign countries.
It is rumoured that some explanations have been
demanded hy the Prince de la Tour' d'Auvergne,
in the name of the French Government, of the
Cabinet of Berlin, upon the attitude and language
of William I. ; and it is said that the Emperor
Napoleon, in a long communication which he had
with Prince de Metternich, stated that the idea
of withdrawing his troops from Rome was farthest
from his thoughts.
The two events of the day in Paris are, Ist, the
reception of, the Abbe Lacordaire, known as the
most famous preacher in Paris, as a member of
the French Academy, his oration, and the reply
to it on behalf of the Academy by M. Guizot ;
and, 2nd, the cause la plus celebre of Paterson.
V. Bonaparte. The Empress drove up to the •
Palace of the Institute about two o'clock, accom-
' panied by the Princess Clothilde, the Princess
d'Esling, and other ladies of her household. Her
IMajesty was handed to the place assigned for her
by M. Guizot, and was almost immediately joined
by the Duke and Duchess of Hamilton. The
Abbe, on entering, took his place between M.
Montalembert and M. Beryer ; he wore the white
cowl of the order of St. Dominic, with the black
cloak. His head was entirely shaven, with
the exception of a cordon of white hair. It
would be wrong to say that the address of M.
Lacordaire was not in the highest degree eloquent
and brilliant, but its effect, as well as that of
the elaborately studied reply of M. Guizot, was
very much marred by the mode of delivery. In.
fact, the speeches of both' were written essays
or prelections read from manuscripts the .dupti-
cates of which were long before in the printer's
hands, and they consequently fell comparatively
flat upon the auditory. The main interest of the'
scene lay in the scene itself—that is, in the occa-
sion and in the audience. There' was M. Guizot,
the head of , the. Protestant party in the French
nation, and the most respectable living repre-
sentative of the defunct Orleanist regime, handing
the Empress Eugenie to her place, and likewise
welcoming to a seat in the Institute, one who was
at once the representative of the anti-Protestant
element in France, and the most sparkling type
of resuscitated Catholicism under the. Empire—
Generals Lamoriciere and Changarnier being silent
witnesses of the spectacle. As to the case 'of
Bonaparte v. Paterson, as it was only begun to-
day, I must defer my notice of it till my next.

At the commencement of business on the
Bourse yesterday some animation was exhibited,
but it did not maintain itself. The closing trans-
actions in the Rente were done at 67f. 60c.

CHINA.

In the Overland Trade Report of Hong Kong
we have intelligence from that place up to the
loth of December:—

The Earl of Elgin is at Shanghai, and has at length
promulgated the ratified treaty of Tien-tsin (made June,
1858), the convention lately made at Pekin, and the
tariff and regulations of trade. They have not yet beea
promulgated here. The Canton Consul has circulated
them, but, strange to say, the foreign customs refuse to
recognise them, and continue to levy duties upon the
old tariff.

There is a rumour very prevalent that the garrison
is menaced by large hordes of Tartars, and that Mr.
Adkins, who was left in charge of the British embassy
at Pekin, has been murdered. The rumour emanates
from the transport ships which have lately arrived from
the North, and although very current, has never been
contradicted. The secrecy pursued so persistently in
diplomatic affairs here naturally causes unfavourable
constructions to be cherished, and unfortunately it has
generally happened that the more profoundly a secret
has been kept, the more have these unfavourable con-
structions been corroborated.

The rebellion becomes worse and worse. There
appears no hope of its being eradicated until it shall
have consumed the substance of the districts it has
overrun.

The following is Lord Elgin's proclamation on
the conclusion of the convention :
"The Earl of Elgin and Kincardine, K.T., G.C.8.,
her Britannic Majesty's special ambassador in China,
&c., &c., has much satisfaction in informing her Majesty's
subjects in China that a convention for the re-establish-
ment of peace between Great Britain and China was
concluded, and the ratifications of the Treaty of Tien-
tsin of the year 1858 duly exchanged at Pekin on the
24th of October, 1860. The Earl of Elgin now pub-
lishes for general information the text of the said con-
vention and treaty, together with the text of the tariff,
and rules which form part of the Treaty, and were agreed
to by him and the Plenipotentiaries of the Emperor of
China at Shanghai, on the Bth of November, 1858. The
Earl of Elgin trusts that by a considerate treatment of
the natives with whom they may come into contact,
a faithful observance of their obligations towards
the Ojnese government, her Majesty's subjects in China