The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-12-21 00:00:00

OUTPORTS.

Margaretha Gezina, sailed from Belfast for Cardiff.
Emmanuel, from Para at Falmouth.
Iris, from Newfoundland at Crookhaven.
Ceres, from Quebec at Holyhead.
Triumph, from New York at Waterford.
Deal, Dec. 20.--Passed (from London) : Etta, for Batavia;
Juventa, Algoa Bay; Arabella, St Michael's; )ttawa, Mobile;
Johann, Jamaica; Gannet (ss), Bordeaux; onia, East Lon-
don ,• Colgrain, Calcutta ; Shelburne, Otago ; beteor, Bombay ;
Cimbria, Jamaica; Onward, Calcutta; Syren, lemarara; West
Indian, Barbadoes ; i pint, Rio Janeiro to Hanburg ; Louisa,
Hamburg to Altona ; Ulverston, Shields to Cathagena.
Gravesend, Dec. 20.---Arrived : Clyde, from Algoa Bay ;
Badnagore, Bimplapatam ; Jubilee, Guernsey; Salacia, Bor-
deaux ; Friendship, Gravelines ; Lila, Girgmti ; Garibaldi,
Uddewalla; Lydia M'Henry, Quebec; Kappma, Stockholm.
Sailed : Cimbria, for Jamaica; Meteor, Bombay; Onward,
Calcutta ; Bessie, Moretown Bay ; Huabet, )ronstaelt ; Zet-
land, Mobile
Dublin, Dec. 20.---Arrived : Return, from bew York ; Eliza-
beth, Trieste; Nairnshire, Invergordon, Wint at Kingstown,
W.N.W., fine.
Leith, Dec. 20.---Arrived llet Covounurni from Finborn ;
Britannia, Newcastle; Stirling Castle, Alio: ; Margarethe,
Lossfemouth ; Colonist, London; Orient (si), Pillars; Rest
Bower (as), ilanaburK; Victoria, Calais.
Queenstown, Dec. 20.---Arrived' James i'Carthy, from
Buenos Ayres for Liverpool; Advance,' and Oresiporous, New
York Kensington, Callao and Rio; Omar Ptsha, Cardenas.

PRESENTS FOR CHRISTMAS AND THE NEW TEAR.
"W: H•. Tooit 2j

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F'. L'. HAUSBURG,
In pietenting the usual address at this Season, begs to return
lii best thanks for the kind and liberal patronage conferred
upon him during the past year.
To his extensive and unrivalled Collection of
BRITISH AND FOREIGN MANUFACTURES
has been added every
ENGLISH AND FOREIGN NOVELTY,
And the greatest care has been exercised in the SELECTION
of the GOODS, to suctrax Tut mar ttuaLITY at the Very
Lowest Prices.
Especial attention is requetted 'to the large Assortment of
'AN,CY ARTICLES,
Indium*
PARISIAN NOVELTIES, FANS, CASKETS',
• SOUVENIRS, BOUQUET HOLDERS,
and the NEW STYLE of
HEAD ORNAMENT
In the greatest
AN EXTENSIVE STOCK OF
Rt NC II DECORATED CHINA,
ALABASTER FIGURES,
PARIAN DITTO.
A Splendid STOCK of
BOHEMIAN, ENGLISH-, AND FRENCH GbASS VASES,
BUSTRES,
The unequalled Stock of
DRESSING-CASES, DESKS, WORK-BOXES,
BAGATELLE TABLES, &c.,
manufactured on the premises, will be found complete in
all its branches.
The assortment of

ENGLISH AND FOREItIN tOtS, GAMES,
DISSECTIONS, &c.,
is replete with every novelty, and includes a great variety of
ORNAMENTS FOR CHRISTMAS TREES.

W. H. l'OGitiE hopes, by his unceasing personal attention,
to secure the continuance of that confidence and support
which have hitherto been so kindly extended to him.

OLD POSTOFFICE-BUILDINGS,
LIVERPOOL. •

CHANDELIERS. LAMPS, &e.
w. TOOKE,
SVCbESSO[t TO
E. LI. HADSRURHi

Ite,pcttfttily invites attentinn 4o ilig balensii STOCK of
. CHANDELIERS,
of Glass and Metal ;

LANTERNS) 13RACItETS; LIISTRES,
of all description/4
PATENT VESTIBULE An) OTHER LAMPS,

INeLUDIRG THE CELEBRATED AUREOLE LAMP.
Public Buildings and Private Residences fitted for Gas.

Experienced Gasfitters employed on the Premises, and all
kinds of repairs carefully attended to in the Manufactory,
24, CHURCH-STREET'.
Crepy'S Fdreiilt Refined COLA OIL, especially adapted
itr Ake Aureole Lanlpb.
A 11i ksisorimint of
tAbLE Al ICI POMET tttiEßt

at the lowest Prices.
The Stock of

PAPIER MACH doobs
Ineinclet a very ektensite ataortment df Artiereit deibcted from
the productions of the titbit eminent Manufacturers in the
!fineAdhi, ensuring the greatest durability, exquisite finish,
&c.

OLD POSTOFFICE-BUILDINGS,

EWS OF Tlit 1)A.

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• Some fresh indications of actual preparations on
the part of Napoleon 111. for sharing in the glories of
another spring campaign have suddenly become visible.
His Majesty has had the whole of the Marshals of
France dining with him, with the exception of Marshal
Canrobert who is ill, and the Constitutionnef, in describing
the present, peculiarly ticklish question of Auitria and
Venetia', has, it is rethArked, made use or. 'a sentence
which bears a Very unpleasantly elOk reieniblanCe to the
word *liiCh, to the terror of Europe, fell from the
Emperor's lips when addressing the Austrian Ambassador,
at the reception at the Tuileries on the Ist January,
1859,.and which were at the time rightly regarded as
tantamount to a declaration of war against Austria. At
the same time, the question whether there will be war
or no, rests entirely with the Emperor Joseph. He can
avoid it by consenting to make the cession of Venetia the
subject of negotiation. England is bound to insist that
Austria shall have at least fair play in any pacific trans-
actions in which she may enter with her adversaries ;
and France and Sardinia jinited, Could not hope
for support iii any attempt to enact terms
that *ere not in all respects just and reasonable.
Should the coansels of M. Schmerling prevail over those
of General Benedek, a war—out of Which it is clearly
impossible for Austria to escape uninjured and un-
crippled—may yet be averted, and Austria may yet riot
only succeed in extricating herself from her present
difficulties—which, by the way, are said to be con-
siderably exaggerated—but become stronger and more
powerful, and the peoples under her sway happier and
more prosperous than they have ever yet been.
At length the irumoitis to which we haie so oftefi
referred, that France would not quit her hold of Syria
at the stipulated period, having acquired the utmost
strength and consistency, have now only one stage
further to reach—that of certainty. We are warned to
prepare for an announcement in the course of the next
day or two, that a convention has been entered into
between FranCe and the Porte, by which the Prench
army in Syria Would prolong its beenpation fot six
months beyond the term originally stipulated. ft will
be very extraordinary if there is nothing found for the
expedition. td do at the end of the six months.
The abolition of passpcitts, as regards British subjects
entering France, has given such a sheet to the whole
machinery of espionage and inquisitorial meddling that
prevails on the continent, that locomotion in Europe
bids fair to shake off every trammel. The faculty of
free circulation Will asstithe its proper position as a
right, and not as a tolerated (but taxed) concession of
authozity; It is the small end of the wedge that is
thus inserted ; but What must follow is scarcely yet
realised. SWeden. and Nor Way have long since done
away With
.this SOlithern iinpertatien of impedimenta
to haman intereotirse, Seandinatia, the nurse of ea
rovers, holding such fetters in natural abhorrence, and
the new kingdom of Italy will surely soon do the same.
It seems very difficult to arrive at the truth about the
Turkish loan in Paths. Most of the large capitalists
hold aloof, and that crowd of small subscribers Which
Government loan never fails to draw together, has not
yet been gathered. It is said that 150,000 out of
250;000 bonds reserved for public subscription, have
been taken. Much speculation is indulged in as to the
possible result of its failtire fof the contractor.
At Calais; Within the last few days, great qttantities
of turkeys and geese have arrived to be despatOhed to
England for Christmas, and two vessels have entered:
tha port expressly to convey poultry to this side of the'
Channel.

The tionibay mail brings intelligenCe Which shows that
India is in a very unsettled, if not iii a berg eritidali
state. A mutinous spirit still exists to a large extent
the native troops are not to be trusted; and the new
income-tax continues to excite the utmost dissatisfaction:
We learn, however, that the renunistrances of Lancashire
against the Indian tariff of Valuations have at last
borne fruit. The report of the Calcutta contifittet
explicitly condemns the Calcutta tariff of April last, as
"ineVitable in principle, and, as regards many of the
chief articles of imiidrt, eiteessiie in its Valuations."
The committee, consisting of Messrs. Spooner,
and Eden, in a conference with the leading firms of Cal-
cutta, have decided unanimously in favour of the adop-,
tion of the folloiVing alterations

1. Grey cotton goods to be valued by 'weight. 1; The
substitution of English weights for the Indian ones in
Customs calculations. 3. A uniform tariff for all India
Upon the Poitibny plan.-4. The exclusion from the
tariff of valuations of goods ',this'll do not readily admit
of distinct classification.
The committee also recommend that a vast number of
articles of petty trade which bring little revenue into
the treasury, and hardly repay the cost of collection,
should be transferred to the free list.

The most impottant feature in the mining news front
Australia is the distovery of the new goldfield at the
Black Range, near Aratat. It is remarked as being
deseriiing of special notice, too, as being die first gold-
field discovered by the prospecting parties fitted out at
the .expense of the government. This new. goldfield,
which hes been called the Londonderry Diggings, is four-
teen miles from Ararat, via Lexington Station, and ten
miles in a direct line. The latest accounts state that
there were then six holes, exclusive of the directors, get-
ting payable gold; that the prospectors had procured
setmll'olinoeS froM three loads; and in other claims they
were getting more..
The Kilkenny alOrnal says :—" There is no* Hardly
a doubt that General Lamoriciere, the distinguished
general of the Catholic army, will hoiioUre tile- Wexford
Brigade haricitiet *ith his presence,_and never was there
such a reception accorded to of Ott since the days of
O'Connell as will be given to this great soldier Of the
faith by the people of Ireland. From the hour he sets
his foot on our soil till he leaves it, one contmilA
ovation awaits him—an ovation which a king might
envy. Let him come, then, in God's name, and see us
as we are in Ireland."

Lord Palmerston has consented to lay the foundation
stone of the Hartley Institute, at Southampton, on the
Bth proximo. Lord Brougham is to be invited. It is
expected that the company, who will be spending the
Christmas festivities at Broadlands, the seat of the
Premier, will also be present at the ceremony. The
Hartley Institute will be for the purpose of promoting
science and the higher kindreds of literature. The
building will cost £lO,OOO, and will be endowed with
£30,000.
In 'the Westminster County Court on Wednesday,
before Mr. F. Bayley, a case was tried, relative to the
liability of husbands, the circumstances and decision in
which may be considered of public importance. Plain-
tiff, a boot and shoemaker, Frith-street, Soho, sued
the defendant, a coach-lace manufacturer, of Bedford-
street, Covent-garden, to recover Bs., the price of a pair
of boots supplied to his wife. Plaintiff stated that the
boots were furnished a short time since to Mrs. Dart,
who was a customer, when, on applying to defendant for
payment, he said, as his wife was living away from him,
he should not pay.—His Honour observed, that the
Lord Chief Justice of England had held, " that if a
wifo was jiving away from her husband, and a person

knowing that gave her credit without first obtaining his
sanction or authority, he (the creditor) must take the
chance of getting his money, but could not sue the
husband." In the instance then before him no such
authority had been sought for, and he mustconsequently
disallow the claim.

The next China telegram is expected to reach London
about Monday the 24th instant, and the mail is due
three days later.

THE FURTHER NEWS FROM CHINA.

A telegtam Was received yesterday afternoon, at the
Foreign Office, froth out ambassador at St. Petersburg,
which, it is much to be feahed, extinguishes all further
hopes that any of the prisoners ensnared by the Tartar
authorities, Who had not been siiti'endeled ptetiously to
the date of Sir Hopo Grant's last despatch, will be
restored alive. the total number of victims is now
ascertained to amount to not less than nineteen; among
whom, we extremely regret to observe, is Mr. Boulby,
the Yinies' correspondent, a gentleman in regard to
whose fate, as was to be expected, a peculiar degree of
interest has been excited and felt, The name of Capt.
Brabazon is not mentioned in the communication
forwarded by General Ignatieff, the Russian Minister at
Pekin, to Sit John Cfampton, as being arnting the
killed, and there is therefore some room to beliete that
this officer is still alive, He may possibly be so great a
sufferer by the tortures inflicted on Mtn, as not to be
capable of being renioved from his place of detention
without risk. According to a i'reUch account Which
We have seen, the total number. of English, i'rench, aril
Sikhs who were carried off by the Tartar troops was
thirty-one ; of these nineteen are now positively ascer-
tained to have been killed, including the three English-
men, Messrs. .De Norman, Anderson, and Boulby ;
and the three Frenchmen, M, Dubat, one of his
aides-de=camp, and a Colonel of aitillei*sii in till
and eight to hate b,ecn pr,qiodsly restored
Messrs. Parks and tech, with one Sikh sowar and fiVe
Frenchmen—making in all twenty-seven, and leaving
FOUR still unaccounted for. The question therefore
:71ains whether ca2tain Brats en io among this latter
small number, or among the thirteen who have
perished, and whose names are not given by Sir John
Crampton. It is a question which will almost certainly
be answered One Way or other iii the course ref next week.
Meanhile, all iiibseiidetit intelligence ,confirms the
previous accounts which have reached this country of
the satisfatto4 Charatlet or the terms which have been
obtained, by the allied Ambassadors, frOM the .Chinese
Government. , • The treaty has net only been iati .ed, but
published in the Pekin Orcette, a,e4r,ie Which is billy
folloWed Where the Chinese authorities are really in
earnest. In short, we now learn that the Shanghai
ultimatum has been accepted by the Celestials, and that
they have at last ratified the former treaty of Tien-tsin,
their refusal to do which formerly led to the disastrous
attempt of Admiral Hope to force the passage of the
Peiho. 'the itlniierti• annoitnees that the amount of
indemnity eiacted 4 the trench, as, was fortherly •
men-
tioned in this journal, is £2,400,000. Some dis-
appointment will be e.perlenCed country;
if if it shoblii tarn oft that Loid Elgin huenet also
demanded and obtained the utmost possible satisfaction
and reparation ;n this and every other respect.
A very interesting fact in connection with the imMd-
diate results of the conclusion of the convention will be
found alluded to by our Paris correspondent. It appears
that the French have, for some time past, had in Pekin,
not only a place of worship, in which the rites of the
Roman Catholic Church were 'Celebrated, but A tishOp,
who now styles,hiiiiself of. Pekin, and that
one of the first fruits of that clause in the treaty which
stipulates for the re-establishment and restoration of
Christian missions throughout the whole Chinese
Empire, was the re-opening of this French Christian
Church in Pekin—the public and solemn elevation
and display of the symbol of the Christian faith
in the heart of the greatest heathen capital in the world,
and the celebration of the religious rite usual in such
circumstances among Roman Catholics ; to which there
appears to have been superadded for the occasion, accord-
ing to the prevalent practice among Frenchmen of that
communion, a special service in honour of Napoleon 111.,
who is again glorified With the title Of " Protector of
the interests of Catholicity."
It is pleasing to observe the testimony which, is borne
both by Lord Elgin and Baron De Groi to the band:
some and disinterested manner in which the Russian
Minister at Pekin, Baron Ignatieff, co-operated with
them in promoting the objects of the negotiations,
and in forwarding from the allied camp to his Govern-
ment the moment his couriers were allowed to leave Pekin
with despatches, the important intelligence of the con-
clusion of the treaty of and the termination of the war, as
well as that regarding the fate of the prisoners, which has
by this thearisreaChedthis country so much earlier than
Would other Wise hate been the ease: This eirotinaftande,
it is obtions, is suggestive of many sources of satisfaC;
tion. Besides being capable of being viewed as an act
of homage to the interests of civilisation, and the ties
which ought to bind civilised nations together in their
efforts to promote these interests, the conduct which the
Russian Government has exhibited in this matter likewise
pates the way for the almost immediate establishment
of direct communication by telegraph with the capital
and With all the chief ports of the Chinese empire. This
is a connection from which it is difficult to say whether
commerce or civilisation will reap the greatest advan-
tage, but in its benefits the interests of Christianity
Cannot fail also' largely to participate.