The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-09-20 00:00:00

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tion of his " nieces." These doubts were at once resolved
by the appearance of a Herculean-looking carter-or porter,
who seemed toknow the gentleman and those in his charge,
the former well, as was evidenced by immediate and un-
doubted recognition ; the latter in such.. a way as to
justify him in at once ordering them to, move oil. 'roe
nieces" insisted on their to look after their
" uncle,"- and charged the carter, as • he :may be called,
with five or six other men who had just come up, with
an intention to rob him. The carter; on the other hand,
with those in his company, all of whom seemed tp•knoW
him, insisted that the nieces were-females of qestionable
character belonging to Leith or Edinburgh, and that
their object Was to deprive "the uncle " of his
pocket-book. In a few minutes a cousiderable
crowd collected, and a desperate scuffle took place as
to who should have
.charge of the gentleman. While
the battle raged "fast and furious," it became all the
more clear that the porters and people were right, and
."the nieces" wrong; nevertheless, the ladies fought
like
heroines; again and again secured their victim, and
probably would • not have left him had not a huge
porter or dock labourer-0 horror of horrors ! how
shall it be stated, or how can it be believed ?
finding all ordinary • efforts of pushing back and
driving forward the. Most obstreperous of the females
utterly unavailing, laid her as coolly and easily
over. his knee as he would do a four-year-old child,
and there and then, amid roars of laughter and
" Serve her 'right," administered a castigation such
as only the naughtiest;, children are - accustomed to
receive. The effect was marvellous. The fiendish
excitement of the brain seemed all at once to be mass
felted to another department of the system ; the eut-
raged female ran off in.hot haste to the police barracks
to secure the assistance of which she 'stoodin need • and
her sister, or associate under threats that if she.did not
move off as quickly, she would be " skelped," too fol-
lowed her as rapidly as she could. On their return with.
the police,, they gave 'in charge several pFrsoni, who
were not taken up, and.finding the train in, waiting,
they bolted off,- leaving the gentleman with the parcel
of bank notes in the safe keeping of his friends.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENC_E.

FRANCE.

(FROM OVA OWN CORRE4ONDENT.)
PARIS, Tuesday, Sept. 18, 1860.
The steam transports, having on board the 7th
regiment of the line,. arrived and cast anchor in
the roads of Civita Vecchia yesterday morning.
They had also on' board a battery of artillery and
a squadron of hussars,. General Goyon, and Gene-
,ral .of Brigade. Ridouel, who were on board the,
Asmodee, landed immediately and started for
Rome by special train. The presence of General
Goyon was very much needed.
The report •
was very generally spread in Paris
yesterday, that the Holy Father was deSirous of
taking his departure from Rome; rumour even
went so far as to assert that he had actually left ;
this latter is evidently. absurd, but there is un-
doubtedly nothing improbable in the' supposition
that Pius IX., confined to that. single part of his
territory which- is peotected- by the arms, of
France, does not consider his position any longer
tenable, and believes the rule of exile and martyr
more conformable to his dignity than that. of a
poor ,Savereign who owes solely to foreign
bayonets the small portion of territory which his
enemies seem to wish to •letive to him. It is
asked whither 'in such a case, His Holiness will
go, but this is a question much more easily asked
than answered.. What is certain, however, is,
that once the Pope has withdrawn from Rome
and embarked, the corps of French occupation will
immediately evacuate the patrimony of St. Peter,
although most certainly the exile of Pius IX. cannot
fail to entail grave embarrassment on the Govern-
ment of Napoleon 111., in consequence of the impres-
sion which it will produce among the Conserva-
tive and the Catholic party. Should the main
rumour turn out to .be true, there would be
nothing to hinder Garibaldi from carrying out
his alleged declaration that he would not stop till
he had proclaimed the annexation of the Two
Sicilies.from the heights of the Quirinal at Rome,
without being under the necessity of attacking the
French flag on his way thither. Garibaldi can-
not be expected not to owe the French a grudge
for checkmating him in 1849. One. would like to
see a similar way of escape made for him as
regards that part of his programme which refers
to Austria, and I do not by any means despair of
such being shortly found.
At Turin the language that is now heard
regarding the recall of Baron Talleyrand is, that
the Government will .willingly put up with the
affront,. provided the French Emperor, by his
attitude towards Austria, will guarantee the non-
intervention of that Power in Italy.
A letter from Naples, dated the 10th inst.,
enumerates a variety of decrees ,which have been
issued by the Dictator, with the view of carrying
out the necessary administrative, naval, military,
and civil changes. By the 9th decree the Marquis
de Bella is sent to Paris on a mission to the
French Emperor, and by the 10th, M. Cataneo is
constituted ambassador to the Court of St. James.
A circular by the IVlinister-at-War invites officers
and soldiers to present themselves to the gover-
nors and commandants of the different 'places,
and to give in their adhesion to the new govern-
ment. Those officers who . shall present them-
selves with the soldiers, are to receive the whole
amount of pay due to them ; the others will he
placed on a second class. Those who delay unne-
cessarily to present themselves will be excluded.
All the acts of the Provisional Government are
to be in the name of Victor Emmanuel, King of
Italy. The Seals of the State are to bear the
arms of Savoy, with the legend, Victor Emmaniiel,
King of Italy. The public debt of the state is
recognised. The public banks will continue
their cash payments. Passports for the
Mats-I.las of Italy are abolished. Those
for the Italian States' (" encore sitjets") will be
delivered and signed by the Director of Police.
All the functionaries of the Judicial order will be
considered as having resigned, if they are not in
attendance at their posts within ten days. There
are no longer any Royalist soldiers in Naples.
On the day preceding the Dictator went up
alone to the Castle of St. Elmo, which has surren-
dered. It is whispered that .a soldier drew his
sabre or discharged his pistol at the Dictator, but
the news makes little noise ; doubtless means have
been taken to smother the rumour as inconvenient.
Most people seem to believe that there is an
understanding between the Emperor and his
Excellency. M. Bertami now acts, as Garibaldi's
secretary.
M. John Lemoine has published in the
Debats a most brilliant article in favour of.
the unification of Italy, with the sentiments of,
which I entirely agree. as I also do in the good
advice which he gives, at the same time, to the
leaders of the movement.
It appears that Prussia has considered the pre-
sent a favourable opportunity for endeavouring to
open commercial relations with China. News
has arrived here of the arrival at Singapore on
the sth August of the Prussian steam_ corvette
Areona, from Dantzic. She had on board an
Envoy Extraordinary, charged with the negotia,
tions of .the treaty of commerce and friendship
•
between Prussia and .the Court of Pekin: A
scientific commission, appointed by the Prussian
Academy, and an industrial commission, named
t die Berlin Chamber of Commoree, are on board
the _ 44r,44, which was to start for Shanghai on
the 7th.' She will probably. arrive at a very
Zwootit for the accomplishment of the
opportune
niission of thos:l Who have. one out in her.
A statement re,.'entlY Published, purporting to
eit to from the various
bet. that the total receipts for the
ochose of the pones-
ar
Paris,etur nsohfotwhse ree
August exceeded
nth of last year by 400)000 francs.
.ponding ruo at the Bourse • •
The stagnation
month of
ent turn in political affairs would
but a prollllll een immediate excitement.
probably pro

Pools, Wednesday, Sept. 19.
15th, says, that he has s.scer-
-1 !nation of Garibaldi to the
A corres
from Genoa Oil the ondent of the Constitutionnel, writing
tamed that the proc a ,
__.
i He also mentions
Palermitans is apocryPna
that M. Ratazzi has resPtec;tfully but firmly de-
and that the King
clined to join the Cabine.
_lures him, whom he
Napoleon, in which he
" a "not to abandon the
has written a most pathetical.etter to the Emperor
regards as his best friend, n
to go as far as
cause of Italy, and offers
to act as he
which have compelled (pousse)
ini
"nsula." It
Algeria to explain in perseovnetheb.sacred reasons
has done for the salvation of the Peninsula.
is added that Garibaldi has in t
fficle at
Pallancini-Trivilgio to accept the same o
Naples as is filled by M. Depretis at Palermo.
e Afar uis
to
If the statements in last night's sae pers are
be trusted, Francis 11. (who is still styled King
of Naples) has not yet quitted Neapolitan
soil.
He is reported to be somewhere between Gaeta
and Capua, at the head of a body of troops num-
bering about 25,000 men, amongst whom are the
Royal Guard, the Foreign Corps, and the Corps
of the Abruzzi, -which has just rallied round him.
The ex-King has with him his two brothers, the
Count de Trani and Count de Casarto,
General Bosco, who had pushed a strong YeePri-
naissance between Fondi and the Roman frontier.
Capua and Gaeta are stated to be thoroughly
fortified and provisioned. and likewise
As regards the States of the Church, the Pied-
montese are pushing their operations with great
activity. Spoleto has been carried after a short
defence, and Ancona is invested by sea and land,

Ithe Sardo-Neapolitan squadron being moored in
the roads. The steam-frigate Vittorio Em-
manuele, carrying the flag of Vice-Admiral
'Persano, is. stationed .at the head of the line,
and is moored at the extremity of the Great
Mole,' 'about 1,100 metres above the citadel.
According to the same accounts, Lamoriciere had
recently quitted Spoleto, -at the head of 9,000
of the Hite of his troops, divided into two corps
—the first being commanded by himself, and the
other by General de Limodan—with the inten-
tion of directing his course upon the Neapolitan
frontier, with the view of forming a junction
.with the Neapolitan troops commanded by the
King. This latter story seems to be rather
problematical.
A tourist in the Roman States is supplying
some highly interesting particulars, regarding the.
different places which he is visiting,,to one of the
Paris papers. His last letters, which are dated
from Spoleto and Foligno respeCtively, contain,
among other things, various allusions to the con--
dition and composition of. Lamoriciere's forces,
and .particularly to that. portion of .them which
formed the garrison. of Spoleto. Your Irish
friends are the special subjects of his notice.
When the tourist was at Spoleto, the garrison pf
that place amounted to 3,000 men, and consisted
of a regiment of Swiss, a native battalion, and
.about 500 Irish. The ranks of the latter, he
says, were increasing every day ;- and General
Lamoriciere was expressing his utmost delight .
their fine appearance. " Avez vous at
quels
said the General
.to
btaux hommes, it me vient ?"
him ; but, alas ! it seems their conduct was not
always in harmony with their good appearance.
In referring to the disorder and disorganisation
which prevailed among the- Papal auxiliary
troops, this observer thus singles out the Irish
portion of them for remark :
" The Irish are the most guilty in all these respects,
although some of the Austrians and Swiss arc not pure
from all stain. But the Irish themselves, are they lot
to be pitied? They arrive at Ancona, for all the world
like great children, quaking before a ,foreigner. The
Austrians arm them, the Italians feast them. But they
are left at first to-themselves • no care is taken of them ;
and they have no officer qualified to command them. , Is
it to be wondered at that they should give themselves
up to -disorder ? They learn only, the words "de Am"
and "de cognqe," and gorge themselves with these
liquors, mixed with the burning wine of Italy. Acts
of drunkenness, like those so frequent in Ireland, occur ;
a vast number of bottles and glosses are broken, ,and it
has become necessary to change the Irish of the garrison
several times. At this moment they are, pretty quiet at
Spoleto ; they still cause no little terror ; but that feel-
ing arises rather from the remembrance of the past than
from their present conduct. At bottom, the inhabitants
are not hostile to them ; and it is a fine sight to see
them in their green uniform and yellow lace—recalling,
as it does, the green Erin, their country."
Who will not agree with this writer, that these
unfortunate men are fully aS mueh to be pitied
as blamed ?
Garibaldi is said to be "redoubling his acti-
vity," in organising his army, so as to bring up its
numbers immediately to 50,000. Another letter
from Naples, dated the 11 th inst., states that the
manifestations of joy at his arrival continued, and
that the city is illuminated every night, but that
it is almost impossible to sally out into the street
without encountering some, mad fellows (fiwieux)
who fall upon . you, sword, musket, or loaded
baton in hand, t.o force you to cry, " `rive Gari-
baldi." It is stated that a gendarme, who hesi-
tated to respond to this invitation, was hacked to
pieces, and a veteran, who imitated his example,
had his head dreadfully cut with cutlasses, two
hundred yards from the house where the writer
lived. A sentinel in the fort. of Calmo underwent
a like fate, for refusing to kiss the cross of Savoy ;
while the miserable looking .vehicles which tra-
verse the street of Toledo, covered with flags, are
filled with monks, who cry " death to the Bour-
bons," and. with :priests, who wave tricoloured
flags.
Little or nothino-was known of the movements
of the King, as the telegraph with Gaeta was
interrupted, beyond the fact that his Majesty had
anything but an agreeable voyage to Gaeta.
Having met at sea with the ship commanded by
M. Longo, who was reputed t.o be a faithful ser-
vant of the monarchy, he ordered him to follow
him, .but instead of obeying this command, M.
Longo got up all steam and set off at once for
Naples, where he delivered up his ship to the
Dictator. It is also said that when Francis 11.
arrived under the walls of Gaeta, his soldiers were
for some time very unwilling to open the crates of
the fortress to him.. The troops which followed°
him are represented as daily desertinghis standard,
and returning to Naples in small detachments.
Some of them have sought service in the Italian
array, but most of them have taken advantage of
the decree of the Dictator, which allows them, if
they wish, to return to their homes.
to the 'lmperial journey, I observe
thaltnthreegianr4nded interview between the Emperor
and Empress and Queen Isabella has miscarried,
owing, as it would appear, either to the Queen
not having reached the place. of meeting in time,
or to the Imperial party having arrived before
they were expected. Queen. Isabella embarked,
on the evening of the 16th from Palma, in Majorca,
for Mohon, in the neighbouring island of Minorca,
but the Emperor had arrived at the latter place
on the morning of the 15th. Their Majesties
landed immediately, but not finding the Queen
there, left a letter for her and ieimbarked at
eleven o'clock. Was this contretemps the effect of
mismanagement or of design ?
I find not a word in the Paris papers, relative
to the alleged attempt on the life of the Emperor
at Toulon; but this silence is no positive proof
that the circumstance did not occur.
Although the Bourse was as thinly attended as
ever yesterday, and the transactions as limited,
the market showed no indications of diminished
firmness. The rentes closed at 68f. On the
previous day at 67-95.

THE CHEAP PRESS.

It appears that more than half the newspapers pub.
lished in London are those of the cheap press, and tha,
the total number of cheap papers established through
out the kingdom to the beginning of the present year
was within three of 500. Of these 323 are papers which
have come into existence since the abolition of the stamp
duty in June, 1855 ; 174 are old papers, formerly pub-
lished at full price, but now become cheap papers,
making the total number 497. It appears also that 161
journals which have not come down in price quite to a
level with the new ones, have adopted an intermediate
price, and that many of the old provincial journals that
still keep up the higher price publish two editions—one
being a number which they call the "People's Edition,"
andissue it at a penny, and the other their old full-
priced edition, the circulation of which has, in many
instances, been found to fall far short of that of the
cheap edition.
In the home counties, out of 76 papers only 25 are
full priced ones ; 41 are those of the cheap Dress; and
10 are intermediate price. The six Norfolk circuit
counties have 42 papers, of which 18 are full-priced, 27
are cheap papers, and 5 are intermediate price. The 27
cheap papers in these counties include six of the old
ournals' which were formerly published at full price.
In the western counties, where the newspapers number
together 84, 25 are full-priced, 45 are cheap papers,
and 14 are intermediate price. The newspapers in the
eight counties of the Oxford circuit are 86 in number,
31 of which are full-priced papers, 47 are cheap papers,
and 8 are intermediate price. In the six Midland coun-
ties, where there are 78 newspapers, 14 only are full-priced
journals, 9 have established an intermgdiate price, and
65 (including 21 of the old newspaper family, exist-
ing prior to 1855) are cheap papers. In' the two
great counties of York and Lancaster, out of 176
newspapers, 12 only are full-price ; while in the
other five nothern coun ties the number of full priced
papers and cheap papers is equal—viz.; 22 of each ; of
the total number of cheap papers (114) in these seven
counties, 70 have been established since the abolition of
the stamp duty in 1855, and 44 are old papers, which
were formerly published at full price, but are now re-
duced to the price of the cheap press. In Wales, as in
the English provincial counties, the number of cheap
papers preponderates, there being in the principality 7
full-priced papers, 14 cheap papers, and 4 intermediate
price. Here. then, we see that i 4 England and Wales,
while the number of cheap papers is 378, that of the
full-priced papers is only 288, the number of interme-
diate price journals being 102.
In Scotland, where the total number of newspapers
is 138, 41 are full-priced ;73 are cheap papers, and 24
are intermediate price. 32 of the cheap papers in Scot-
land comprise those established between 1668 and 1855,
and include the Edinburgh Ecenißg Courant. Caledonian
Mercury, and other old papers which now form a large
portion of the cheap press in Scotland. In Ireland, the
number of full-priced journals has the ascendency, being
63 ; while the cheap papers number 34, and the inter-
mediate price journals are 32, making together 12£1
papers in Ireland. In the British Islands the news-
papers-15 in number—are all "cheap" ones, except
three, which are intermediate priced journals.
Thusl it will be seen that the cheap papers throughout
the kingdom and the British Islands to January, 1860,
outnumbered the full-priced journals by more than 100.
The total number of full-priced journals being 392 ; in-
termediate price, 161 ;, and cheap papers, 497. Since
that time the number of cheap papers has considerably
increased all over the country.

AgMENT IN TIM RIVER.—At one o'clock yesterday
morning, as the Nova Scovian (s.s.) was coming up the
river, she grounded on a sand-bank in Bootle Bay. A
steam-tug and fiats were despatched to her assistance,
and she got off at 1 :30 p.m., without sustaining any
serious injury.
SERIOUS ACCIDENT IN BIRKENKE4.p.--AbOnt six
o'clock yesterday evening, as Edward Edwards, a young
man about, eighteen years of age, residing
ibuildings, was working at the dock railway, Birkenhead,
a waggon passed over his thigh, inflicting severe injuries.
Ike was immediately removed to the hospital.
n Morpeth-
13inic.F.NHEAD POLICE-COURT.---AI this court, yester-
day,
a young man, who crave the name of Charles Sey-
mour, charged with picking the pocket of a young
woman, named Mary Itead. The young woman was on
the Woodside ally, and she caught the prisoner's hand
mar,
in her pocket. e was sent to gaol for three months.
A SINGING CLASS.—An evening singing ,4ais is in
course of formation. It will meet for instruction twice
a week. Mr. E. J. Eyres, of Lord-street, Edge-hill, is
'to he conductor. A lecture, in connection with this
object, was delivered last evening, at the Liverpool
institute, the subject being the tonic Sol-fa system of
teaching to sing. 'The lecturer was the Rev. John Cur-
wen, the editor of the isni col-fa Reporter .
AMERICA.—The Liverpool, Nevi,, York, and Philadel-
. Pil32 screw steamer Glasgow, Capfain ThOinpson, left
the Mew:: yesterday for New York. The Montfeill
Ocean Stefims4iP.Company's steamer North American,
• Captain Aiton, will sail for Quembee• And Montreal this
day, with the Canadian mails. .I.he letter-box closes at
the Post-otlice at 1. p.m; letters eau be forwarded i.,;,i
Londonderry if posted by 9 30 p.m,