The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-12-20 00:00:00

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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1860.

NEWS OF THE DAY.

A meeting Is recorded as having taken place at the
Tuileries last Monday between the Emperor Napoleon,
Earl Cowley, Prince Metternich,— the Austrian Ambas-
sador to the French Court, and M. Thouvenel, the
Emperor's Foreign Minister. The general, and probably
the correct, impression; is that the principal subjects
discussed on this oteasion, had reference to the cession
of Venetia, the negotiations connected with which are
positively asserted to be actually going on at the
present moment, notwithstanding not a few state-
ments to the contrary. In the meantime, we
find Getierl Benedvek telling his troops that they must
be ptelialtil for war in the spring, and that it is at
Mantua that he intends to deliver Austria from all
further fears of Garibaldi and his adherents; and the
Turin Gazette declaring that no Ministry could aped to
stand for a day that was satisfied 'anything short of
the entire emateitratton of the Venetians by one means or
stbv•:.

Our Paris correspondent's letter of Tuesday last sup-
plies us with the heads of the new Austrian Constitution,
proposed by the new Minister) M. fthmerling. The
idea would appear to be fo'anded phritlY on the English
ttvi pattlynii talted Sthtes model. Anyheit, it is a
tierne'adits limp for Xuserih to. thke 'in n nonstktitiogal
dirktiint.

firci,seYA news concerning Hungary is not a little
extraordinary, and, it must be added, not a little con-
tradictory. The Conference which assembled at Grunt
between the Austrian and Hungarian repir,esaaqei,
has been closed with sreethes of a C:',,LpthatCry'rh.rabter,
and afte):,l,.`Adhinicois bad been adopted, to
re nest ~tk'e hiaperor to grant the Electoral Law of
1848 ; bin., on the other hand, we are informed that a
pamphlet is about to appear in Paris, under the auspices
of Prince Napoleon, advocating the dismemberment of
the Austrian Einpire, while one set of Hungarians
lected in Paris are offer' g the i6VeYeVrAty of heir
country to .his ILighitess, and another body,
Calm ► tfelf the "Pesth Connuittee," have made the
same tender to Prince Constantine of Russia. Lastly,
it is to be noticed that, according to the Patnie, the
Pope, guided at length by a conciliatory spirit, consents
to a revision of the Austrian Concordat.

A correspondent of t MalaiEster Paper states that a
private lettd tts treen received in London, dated the
Itth dCtober, announcing the safe return to the allied
camp of Captain Brabazon and Mr. Boulby, immediately
after Sir Hope Grant had closed and sent off his despatch
on the 14th. We know that up to that date Sir Hope
expected the remaining prisoners to come in every moment.
He says nothing about any further deaths Nerilill-tVeat:-
ment, and in the abseWee Y;aitiite information it
is ullotVAltt td 'assume that they had not shared the
Cruel fate of Captain Anderson and Mr. De Norman.
However that may be, we may depend upon it that
peace was not made until the Ambassador and the Com-
mander-in-Chief had obtained their release, or ample
evidence of their death. On the whole, we are inclined
to take the most hopeful view, and to believe that the f
next mail will give their friehels the best 'news they
could have at this tenso'n—the news of their safe return
to the head-Auarters of the Allies—thus confirming the
agreeable intelligence to which we have referred.
Twelve accidents have occurred to railway passenger
trains since the Ist of November. Of these eleven have
been collisions, all of which might have been prevented
by the adoption of a simple rule—viz., that ne train
should leave a station until it has been telegraphed from
the next station that the line is clear.
An action for assault, recovery of jewellery and *ear-
ing apparel, and for money lent, which has occupied the
Court of Queen's Bench for trio days, and was finished
on Tuesday, discloses an amount of moral filth nausea-
ting in the extreme, a large portion of the details being
entirely unfit for publication. The parties in the
case were Anna Hooper, plaintiff, and Mr. Warde,
described as a magistrate in Warwickshire, defendant.
In 1848 Mr. Warde, having been divorced from his
wife, took the plaintiff at the age of seventeen to live
with him as his wife, and it was in the interval from
that time up to last year that the matters complained of
°Court-ea—cart-whips, sticks, and such like gentle

weapons being the implements of assault. A verdict
was returned for the plaintiff—damages, £5OO for
assaults, £lOO for the jewellery, and £BO mon4
£6BO in all.

The Merehant Tnytors' COnipany gaVe a grand banquet
on Tfteadity night in honour of Lord Clyde. The Duke
of Cambridge, Lord Stanley, and 150 distinguished
guests were present.

The Thames Iron Works Cqz*Nay hate keeeived an
order from the Ritssian doternment for ant iron-cased
frigate of the Irarrior class, but larger, say 6,320 tons.
builders' measurement. Other VesSelS'of the same class
are to be fitted for Russia from year to year. The
vessel is to be fitted with engines:of 1;250 horse power.
A prospectus has been. issued of the East 'fhdia and.
London Shipping Companyjoimed for the purpose of
establishing a fast line of inexpensite vessels dirett to
India, the only port of call betNteenLondon and t alotitta
being Madras. The fleet of aukiliary strew steamships
belonging to the late Australasian Company are to be
transferred to this new company.
The distress in Coventry is described as real-Ail in the..
extieme. The numbers out of Work throbgh the disttiet
count, not by hundreds, but by thousands. Many of
these and their families have beeit Kiund :in a state of.
actual starvation. ManY'lnore. are Ifting oir a pittance
so scanty that it only enables them to procure the barest
necessaries of life; and a nerhipsi Still much greater
number, who by frugality .atd. .ilyittstry . In the past
have made little accumulations, Which ' they hate
invested in the loom machinety'ehiplOked iii the riband
trade, are day by day eihattstittg the last tesotirtes
which up to this time hate preserved them from the only
alternative to starvation—charity or the union work-
house. When to thiS Wide-spread destitiitieri is added the
stagnation—or rather the titter prostration-=of the
general trade of CovehirY,. its .shops b'OitipaittPiety
deserted by customers, the numerous'-untenanted houses
in many of its streets, in other's, where the din of looms
at work fell from every side on the ear of the passer-by,
a silenee which is oppressive in the feeling of solitude
which it gives rise to, the description would be com-
plete by likening the state of things to a large industrial
community which is undergoing many of the sufferings
incidental to a city in a state of siege. Over that town
hangs now a dark cloud, rendered still more gloomy by
its prospect of a continuance of its distress for the nett
six weeks or two months, With, all the aggravations
which the rigours of the severe winter.season can impart
to it. . ,
At a meeting of gentlemen engaged in the silk
trade, held in Manchester, on Tuesday, a resolution was
passed, expressive of satisfaction at the terms of the
Commercial Treaty with respect to the admission of
English silks into France, and thanking. Mr. Cobden
for his important services in connection with the• recent
extended application of the principles of free trade.
There is another and later account front America,
The President's Message is considered " weak and
unsatisfactory" both by North and South. Mr. Buchanan
has succeeded in pleasing neitherparty. Georgia would
appear to have receded from its ,contemplated secession.
The monetary and commercial .intelligence is not of a
satisfactory hue. ,

* *
* Owing to the extreme length of our report
of the meeting of the shareholders of the Borough
Bank yesterday, we are again fOrced to keep back
several articles and'other matters of importance.

SHIPWRECK IN THE CHANNEL AND
SERIOUS LOSS OF LIFE. •

We are sorry to have to record a very melancholy
catastrophe in the channel. A French schooner, named
the Granville et Bordeaux, hence for Granville, which
sailed from this port on Tuesday last, capsized during
the same night on Taylor's Bank, near the Light-ship,
when the master and three men were drowned. It is
not yet known whether all hands perished; but it is sup-
posed that such is the case, as the schooner now lies
under water. Four bodies have been recovered, and are
now in the dead-house at the Prince's Dock. They are
those of the captain, two of the crew, and a pilot named
Williams. We are not yet in poseSsion of full details
of this distressing occurrence.,

y erg , -----'—,„ ..7"b 'll Esq., the deputy
a watch-spring maker, in Oswald-
corCoOnßerO,NhEeßld'sreufßolTlowijnogrilinnquests yesterday :—On the
body of John. Whittaker, eighteen years of age, who
was ' an apprentice to a plumber,
be was engaged on a house in Everton,
8 livedtre
etlw i t
Th
he his
dfeactehaesre,d
on some ice that was on the roof, fell
wanhdenonheTsuleispdpay
eyd
off, and was fatally hurt. Verdict, "accidentally
killed.':—On the body of John Walsh, a shoemaker,
Who lived at 312, Scotland-road. The deceased had
been drinking very hard for some time past, and on
Tuesday he was found hanging in the back kitchen with
a silk handkerchief round his neck and tied to a hook
in the wall. When cut down he was quite dead.
c
Verdict, " hung himself whilst labouring
named
under tem-
porary:t'll—On the body of a
three years old. It appeared that the
about the fire in a house in Sperling-
stephen inßsarnetit7
child was playing
street, when his clothes caught fire, and he was so
injured that death followed. Verdict, "accidentally
burnt."—On the body of a child named Stowell, that
was accidentally suffocated in bed, in Thomas-street, on
Tuesday last. 'Verdict accordingly.—On the body of
James Murdoch. The deceased was the foreman of the
cotton porters at Mr. Peter Joynson's, Exchange-street
East. On Tuesday he was engaged at some cotton at
warehouses in Bedford-street, when a bale (about fot.r
cwt.) fell on him, and he was so much injured that he
died in consequence. Verdict, "accidentally killed."

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRANCE.
(FRO3I OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, 18th Dec., 1860.

The opinion and belief that Francis IL will
quit Gaeta in a very feW days becomes daily
more general and decided, but the same degree
of uncertainty and indistinctness as heretofore
pervades all speculations as to the future of the
Pontifical Government. The French semi-official
journals of yesterday evening declare not only
that it is not true that the French -troops have
evacuated, or are about to evacuate, Viterbo, but
that they are about also to occupy Aquapendente,
Bagnarea, and several other points.
The strife between the several parties in the
Sacred College of Cardinals still continues. Some
of the cardinals, upon whom influences-of divers
kinds have been brought to bear, are for an
arrangement with Piedmont, and even wish,
it is said, that it were possible to induce
Pius IX. to abdicate the tlii'one of St. Peter to
make Way for a Pontiff, who, hot having come
under the same engagements as his predecessor,
would probably be more. at liberty to treat arid
come to terms with the Sovereign of the new
Italian kingdom. Others Of theili, on the
~eont-
rary, tire' degdedlY Of opinion that the Holy
Father should protest, by a flight and voluntary
exile, against the spoliation to which. he has been
subjected by his enemies and by hiS allies, who, after
having allowed him to lose a great Portimit of his
territories, offer frith only ik.. limited and illusory
"protection. Itastly,,there is a third party, at the
head of Which. ii Cardinal Antonelli, who pro-
nounoegfor the niaintenance of the guilt quo ; and
it is
.thii laSt course ithich will be .adopted, at
least ili t& mbar H tithe' by the ely. tatheki
, Aeich.dill& 16 dbcP'atblies received from- Vienna,
till programme of Chevalier Schmerling, who
has just joined the Austrian - Ministry, has been
adopted, and will be put in c2repntion in four
months. By this plan tie; Austrian. Empire
will, for the 'Utilre have an Upper thatiibori or
110.tcr, M obles, composed, for the first time,
o 200 members, with respect to whom the here-
ditary -principle will be admitted, as in the
English House of Lords ; and a second,. or
Elective Chamber, which will consist of 230
members, to be chosen by the
.dill'erent
.provineial
assemblies, in nitinbers ptOportidned to the impOrt-
EtOoe 4#401. , 6:f theseWSSeicillliest Vridei thi4
arrahenient AUstria Will lige, singularly enough,
like, the United States, a double representation—
of which one will have to deal with the special
interests of each of the provinces, and the other,
with the general interests of the empirket,...— .„
The °placate, of rytiiitt, hag W., rolloWiiik on
the
.premeAt hint„ i'ir the relations between the
Emperor Napoleon and Francis II.:

Everybody in Italy well knows that France, by send-
ing her fleet into the Gaeta waters, had only one object,
that of providing for Francis 11. a means of retreat.
The Emperor has not waited until now to counsel
Francis 11. to renounce further resistance) while pro-
mising to keep a free passage by sea for hirn to leave
Gaeta. However, FratiCe has ended 4 iiiduie{king to
VranciB tI. )int 44, Ye htis cleCthiept,to, take this
whOleAonie adviCel the rteliCh fleet 4dit Oneti, and
that theli the Italian squadron would no longer meet
with any obstacles in blockading the place. This
determination of the Imperial Government of Paris
cannot fail to accelerate the capitulation of the fortress,
and spare the army and the inhabitants of Gaeta further
sacrifices and disasters.

I am glad to see that the Inclipendente of the
same city completely p,ontradi4tEt the news,of the
loss of tAe Dora; With the TOO Gatibaldiaiis on
boitil None or the steamers of the company to
which the Dora belongs have met with any
accident whatever. _

A letter from Naples, dated the 12th, describes

the Abruzzi and other parts of the Neapolitan
kingdom as being in a very disturbed state—
most of the governors as incapable, and the .well
disposed inhabitants as urgently entreating,
Governor Farini to send additionfil trOOps to
preserve order amongst them. As to the state of
the police of Naples; it could hardlY,be,NVOrse.
In fact, this s'erViCe; ieSPeets irte4"el7C add
effectiiretetS; tem& to be in AO Way stiperihr to
that of the pketechng Government. The young
Frenchman who was assassinated the, week before
last in the Lago San Pasquale, and who turns
out to have been M. Gustave Revol, of Lyons, a
nephew of the commandant of the Rentiere, was
buried without the authors of his murder-being
discovered. An officer of the Bersaglieri has
also been assassinated at the city gates v and down
to the present mometit thh aii.thaii Of the Mut.-
deroUs attehipt on the life of General Dunn,
whose condition is still most alarming, have not
been brought to justice. In consequence of the
extreme weakness of the patient it has not been
considered safe to attempt to extract the ball.
The whole of the Garihaldiaa troops; With the
exception of the Infigarians, are undergoing the
probbs§ d dissolntiOn ' but perhaps this circum-
stance dOes not afford much cause for regret, all
things. considered.
The news of the conclusion of the peace from
China imparted some animation id the Bourse,
but the eAciteMent bas lirlly or d teiliporary cha-
rheter: Rates yesterday closed at 68 80, and
the four-and-a-half 86 55.