The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-12-24 00:00:00

THE FRENCH FUNDS.

PARIS, Dec. 22, 3.25 p.m.
The Bourse remains very depressed. Rentes
closed at 68f. 30c., or 10 centimes lower than
yesterday.

ITALY.
THE POPE'S ALLOCUTION.
ROME, December 21.
The Pope delivered an allocution in the Con-
sistory held on the 17th instant. His Holiness
spoke of the prosecutions of the rn Christians in
Syria and China. He condemned the pamphlet
of M. Cayla, entitled " Le Pope et I'Empereur,"
and announced that the Grand Duke of Baden
had violated the pontifical concordat. _

The Roman patriots ha're posted up bßl.s os the
walls of Rome bearing the arms of King Victor
Emmanuel, and the words, " We desire assese.-
tion to Sardinia."

^ " " ViTYWANiNIM Utiy.

The royal mail steamer Australasian arrived at
1 p.m., embarked mails at 4 15, all well. She
made the passage from Liverpool in twenty hours.

THE PENINSULAR MAILS.

SOUTHA,MPTON, Dec. 22.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Sultan, Captain Cook, with the above mails has
arrived. She brings seventeen passengers, £1,540
in specie, and 3,300 packages in cargo, consisting
chiefly of oranges. She spoke the Tagus bound
for Lisbon, on the 19th instant. The Tyne sailed
from Lisbon for the Brazils on the 14th. Her
Majesty's ship Mersey left Lisbon for the West
Indies on the 15th. In Lisbon harbour were her
Majesty's ship Centurion and the Portuguese
squadron. A great many vessels were anchored
outside the bar of Oporto. At Lisbon. on the
17th instant, Exchange on London, three months,
was quoted 54! ; Paris, 5-28 ; Amsterdam, 42; ;
Hamburg, 48 ; Genoa, 5-27. Rentes, Three per
Cents, interest from January, 1861, 461. Cou-
pons, 451- ; deferred, 37. Bank of Portugal
Shares, 262 milreis. Oporto Commercial and
Mercantile Bank, 260 milreis.

Mr. Alfred Bunn, the theatrical manager, died of
apoplexy on Thursday evening.
The Archbishop of Griburg-in-Baden has, at the re-
rt.4 of the Government, interdicted the clergy from
(
rt• collections in private houses of Peter's Pence.

The p-on,,,wing appeared in our later editions of
Saturday :
AuFOIA AND VENETIA.
PARIS, Dec. 21.

The Constitutionnt:/ contains a second article,
signed by its chief edt,4nr, M. Grandguillot, on
the subject of Austria any Venetia. M. Grand-
guillot says France w
ill never suffer the return
to an offensive policy by Austi7in in
Lombardy.
M. Grandguillot explains that another power,
from divers motives, is expected, contrary to
Austrian domination in Italy.

ITALY.
NAPLES, DM 21.
It is rumoured that a corresl)ondence hag been
discovered between a member of the clergy and
Gaeta.

MAIL NEWS.
The post-office authorities have intimated that the-
mails for India, China, and Australis, will be made up
in London on the 26th instant as usual.

The weather was extremely severe at Paris on Wed-
nnday and Thursday.
The war party at Vienna is said to have become very
violent, and M. De Schmerling has been obliged ter
threaten to resign, in order to keep them within bounds.
It has been determined to close Lloyd's at two o'clock
on Moudav next, and the Baltic Coffee-house altogether
on that day.
Mr. Vyner has limn elected for Ripon. Dr. Lees
declined going to a poi:. The show of hands was in his
favour.
The funeral of the late earl of Aberdeen took place
yesterday at Stanmore. The INhop of Oxford performed
the religious service. The pall \vas borne by the Duke
of Newcastle, Earl of Clarendon, Sir James Graham,
the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, ti:e Right Hon. E.
Cardwell, and the Earl of Dalkeith, actii:g for his father.