The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-11-06 00:00:00

THE NEW MAYOR.

THE Chief Magistrate of Liverpool occupies a
position scarcely second in importance to that of
any municipal dignitary in the United Kingdom.
The influence which the Mayor of Liverpool
exercises in social, commercial, and political life,
is not merely local. It makes itself felt indi-
rectly, yet in a large measure, even in a national
sense. The personal character and official dig-
nity of the Mayoralty of this great Corporation hav e
happily been sustained by a succession of the
most worthy and most distinguished gentle-
men, whether we put them to the test of
mental capacity, active and enterprising useful-
ness, or the possession of material wealth.
The positive requirements of our Civic
Chair, and its adjunctive demands upon
every one who would worthily occupy it, as well
as the splendid opportunities, not to say tempta-
tions, it holds forth to any one who would amply

realise its privileges, render its acceptance
possible only by those of the highest culture and
most independent position. As each returning
November approaches, it is, thus, a question of no
secondary consequence to many great and
important interests, WHO Is TO BE MAYOR ?

While several of our contemporaries have been
prematurely wise in the solution of this highly
interesting point, we have carefully abstained
from making any remarks, knowing how
vain and idle was all such gossip by the
self-important authors of what is well
understood to be very unreliable " TALK,"
so long as nothing was, or could, be predicted as
to the intentions of the only parties with whom
the election really rested. We have not given
circulation to any of The various and contradic-
tory rumours with which the public ear has for
some weeks past been entertained, because in all
such important matters we prefer being sure, even
if we might for a time render ourselves liable to
the imputation of being slow. We have been
told, with more or less oracular confidence, first
by one and then by another, that So-and-so was
to be Mayor. We knew better—not one of the
names yet publicly mentioned being " the coming
man." In fact, until yesterday, no one could have
known, for certain, who was destined to fill the
high office. We have patiently waited our time;
and it now affords us unmingled satisfaction to
announce, as we feel surd it will afford equal
pleasure to the whole community to know, that
the Mayor for 1860-61 will be SAMUEL ROBERT
GRAVES, Esq.

It cannot but be interesting to the Burgesses
of Liverpool to know that at a meeting of the
Conservative members—the majority—of the
Council held yesterday, it was in the first place
agreed
unanimously to propose CHARLES TURNER,
Esq., Chairman of the Mersey Docks and Har-
bour Board, for the office of Mayor.: but, as that
gentlemen considers that, in the presently exist-
ing state of the business of the Docks and Har-
bour'Board, his arduous and responsible duties
at the head of that great Trust are of paramount
importance, and such as, for a time at least,
to require his undivided time and attention
he declined being put in nomination for the civic
J
chair for the present. JAMES TYRER, Esq., was
also suggested; but the honour was declined by
him on private grounds. S. R. GRAVES, Esq.,
was next proposed, and it was most cordially and
unanimously agreed that he should be nominated
for the, Mayoralty on the 9th instant. There is,
therefore, no
longer any room for mere surmise,
doubt, or speculation as to WHO IS TO BE
MAYOR.
Mr. GRAVES is already too well known to the
community to require a word of recommendation
from our pen. He holds his seat in the Council
Chamber as a representative of Pitt-street Ward,
for which he has been unanimously elected THREE
TIMES ! When to this circumstance we add that
at his last election his nomination was moved by
a Conservative and seconded by a Liberal, each
fitly representing the two great political sections
of the population, we think his acceptability with
the general body of the people is put beyond any
question. Equal in importance to the Town

Council is our Dock. Board, and there also Mr.
GRAVES has occupied a not less marked position.
This is proved by the fact that he was returned
to that board by about as large a number of
votes as has ever been recorded for any other
elected member of the Trust. Everybody
knows that the port of Liverpool is second to
none; and surely it is no small testimony to the
fitness of Mr. GRAVES for the Mayoralty of this
town, that for years he filled the useful and
influential position of Chairman of the Liverpool
Shipowners' Association. Then again, when the
question of the right of the Corporation to the
"Town Dues" agitated the commercial and
general community from its centre to its circum-
ference, who did more for the defence of its
rights thait Mr. GRAVES ? Many will remember
how ilhaninioUsly he .was called on to represent
the feeiingg and TistlYs.l of one of the
most important meetings of the inliabitalit4
ever held in that noblest of municipal structures"'
St. George's Hall. Last, not least, we feel proud
in adding that the.name of Mr. GRAVES occupied
a place in the Royal Commission issued by the
Crown, with the sanction of Parliament, to inves-
tigate and report on the respective claims of loca-
lities thought to be suitable for the erection of
Harbours of Refuge—a commission under which
he served assiduously, and whose labours must
be fraught with inestimable blessings to the
nation generally, but especially to the interests of
navigatimiblessings of which Liverpool canno
fail to reap a large sliaid.
Altogether, whether we review Mr. diAvES
services in behalf of local or imperial interests,---
whether we regard him as one of those merchant
princes who are the pride of Liverpool, or weigh
him in the scale of political soundness and consis-
tency,--of singularly courteous bearing, and of
generous and genial sympathies as a gentleman,
—as a man of business, whose success proves his
ability,—or as an accomplished scholar and fluent
speaker, we hail his advent to the highest mini"
cipal dignity without fear of challenge, and with
perfect confidence as to his rare fitness to repre-
sent ".the good old town" on all great occasions,
and to maintain its interests and infltience as the
commercial metropolis of the empire. The honohi
about to be conferred on Mr. GRAVES has been
fairly earned by him, and the appointment will
undoubtedly reflect equal credit on the comuln"
nity over which he is to preside.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE•

FRANCE.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, Monday, Nov. 5.
Promises continue to be made of a " true and
particular account" of the Warsaw Conference•
Count Rechberg is said to be entrusted with the
commmunication of one version, and Prince Gert-
schakoff of another. But until these promises are
•realised, it would be entirely superfluous to spe-
culate further on the subject, especially as we are
not likely to get the whole of the truth from
either of these quarters.
I have nothing further to add on the subject of
the affair of Admiral de Tinan at Gaeta, excepting
the additional particular that as soon as King
Victor Emmanuel received notice of the intervew
tion, he immediately wrote to his relative the Prince
Napoleon to complain of the proceedings of the
French Admiral. It would thus seem to be
through the intervention of the Prince that the
complaints of the King of Sardinia reached the
ears of the admiral. I am not prepared to sag
that this channel of communication is either the
safest or the best.

The Court will not go to' Compiegne at present
it is said. The death of the Empress Dowager of
Russia has put an end the projected plans for the
usual reception of guests at this Imperial hunting
box, at this season.

It is rumoured, but I do not guarantee the
accuracy of the intelligence, that it was de-
cided, at a recent Council of Ministers, that
every "avertissement" henceforth given to the
journals, shall carry with it the perfect right to
suspend the sale of the offending paper on the
public thoroughfare for the space of two months. If
this report be correct, it would seem that the
present stringent laws against the Press instead
of being relaxed are about to be tightened. N°,
doubt it is just possible that one of the effects 01
this new and most rigorous resolution, would be t°
induce the Minister to hesitate before exercising
his power, but at the same time, this is a very
feeble expectation on which to place much
reliance.

The Legitimist, Marquis de Larochejaquelaine,
whose recent violent letter to the Bishop of
Poitiers, which was published in the Armonia of
Turin, led to the seizure of that journal, is de-
termined not to be satisfied without a further
attempt to uphold the principles of his race as
affected by the events in Italy, and he has just
prepared and is about to publish another enegetie
diatribe against Piedmont, under the title of
"National Policy." The marquis no doubt wd
send' a copy of it to Lord John Russell, in re'
ference to whom, and his second despatch to Sir
James Hudson, the Patrie of last night has the
following, which you will agree in thinking is
worth reproducing :
From bad temper, and almost menace, Lord John
Russell has passed all at once into sympathy with, and
approval of, the Piedmontese policy. This new despatch
of his lordship's is more than a bill of indemnity for the
Italian revolution—it is an encouragement and applaud-
ing of it. This change of language on the part of the
English Cabinet scarcely surprises us. We have been
accustomed to surprises since the commencement of the
Italian question. It is difficult not to remember, in
fact, that the Palmerston-Russell Ministry is at one
time reconciled to, and at another separated from,
Italy ; that it was singularly cold precisely at the
most critical period, and that it leant towards Germany
when we were watering the fields of battle in Lombard,'
with our blood ; that it recovered this warmth of sym-
pathy for the Italians only the day after the peace 01
Villafranca, and that, in a word, neither the departure of
its sympathy nor its return, appears inspired by the
interest which England takes in Italy, but by altogether
different reasons.

The French policy, it must be at once admitted, has
not been subject-to all these tergiversations. Its spar
pathies have not varied, because it does not make them.
dependent on its interests (how disinterested !) For
the same reason it has always been moderated. A pair
of scales (balance) would represent perfectly our policy
in Italy. To represent that of England, a bascule would
be required !

One of the St. Petersburg journals mention the
following particulars of a shocking occurrence
which took place a short time ago at Sebastopol'
Two Russian travellers, MM. Molkoff and Ivanog,
were visiting the old bastion No. 4 of the line of
defence, when they came upon a shell with a fuse
attached. They took it up to look at it, and then
let it fall. The shell ftll upon the tube, and the
consequence was it instantly exploded. Both the
travellers were struck by the bursting of the pro"
jectile, M. Ivanoff being killed on the spot, and
M. Molkoff so shockingly mutilated that he is not
expected to recover.
The same journal, in alluding to the effects of
the tremendous fires which during the summer
destroyed the Russian forests in the department
of Penzio, states that multitudes of the bears
were' left entirely without the means of protee-
lion or subsistence, and that they had invaded.
the villages in the neighbourhood of the forests,
and devoured several of the inhabitants in broad
day light.
An interesting meeting is recorded as having
taken place, a short while ago, between Generals
Cialdini and Salgano, of which the following is an
account :
General Salzano, who for some days previously had,
commanded the Royalist forces, was asked by General
Cialdini to favour him with an interview on the 24th'
and it was agreed that the two generals should meet
without escort of any kind. Salzano left his at Teall°'
although he was aware of the presence
,not far from
thence of some companies of Garibaldians. gaving
arrived at the mill, the place fixed for the meeting, he
found there General Cialdini, who endeavoured to Pelli
suade him that the cause of Francis 11. was lost, an
that the sacrifice of so many fine ',lle, ldiers involved 137
useless effusion of blood, in behalf a a principle whic
indifferent Europe no longer supported, and a good dea_
more to a similar effect. General Salzano, howe'rfr,
declined to be convinced by the arguments of his friendlyopponent, and the conference ended, as might have bee_',,
anticipated, without any result. But the astanishre.err
of the latter officer may be imagined, when on returni g
to Teano, where he had left his escort, not one of they
was there. The men had been surrounded by Garr.
baldians and made prisoners. This shews that the arl
of the Dictator is not kept under the same discipline 1.,
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THE NEAPOLITAN CAMPAIGN.
MEETING OF KING VICTOR EMMANUEL
AND GARIBALDI.
(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)

TURIN, Nov. 2.
Victor Emmanuel has put off his entry into
Naples for a few days. Before going to receive
the acclamations of the inhabitants, he wishes to
seal the annexation voted by the Plebiscite by a
decisive victory over the Neapolitans. The task
he has imposed upon himself will not be an easy
one, but its execution is the reverse of impossible.
The corps which is stationed between Gaeta and
Pignatava, is estimated at • XO,OOO men. That
which guards the defiles of Borano amounts to
1,000, t learn, and I have every reason to
believe the news to be true, that Austrian, Bava-
rian, and Spanish volunteers are disembarking
e'irery day at Gaeta;
Thg iegular Piedifiontese army has been rein-
forced by seven divisions of Garibaldians, or at
least of that portion which remains of the Corps

of Volunteers, who have been decimated not only
by the fire of the enemy, but by sickness and
desertions. In order to attain a regular organisa-
tion, which shall secure for the Garibaldians the
benefits of a service d'intendance, of hospitals,
and likewise those rewards which are due to the
bravery of the men, they have expressed a desire
to be classed in regiments, and to be designated
by numbers after the manner of the army of
Victor Emmanuel. Colonel Masi, who, in the
Ornbria, commanded the volunteers called " Chas-
tetirs du Tibre," has given the same name to his
Corps;

King Francis despatched General Ctitrofiano to
Warsaw, as he, having taken part in the war,
Would be able td gi-t'e full information regarding
Matters to. the Sovereigns. But it is understood
that he did not arrive in tithe ; besides, the death
of the Empress Mother would render the Emperor
Alexander very little disposed to enter upon the
subject of his mission, should the General. be
advised to push on to St. Petersburg.
Victor Emmanuel has made the acquaintance
of the Garibaldians. He reviewed them at
Monte Croce. Hardly had the staff of the King
Made its appearance in the plain, than Garibaldi
'ent forward to meet his Majesty. The King
and the Dictator grasped each other by the hand,
their faces at the same time expressing emotions,
of the liveliest joy. The King was received with
the loudest acclamations, as he rode along the
line, accompanied by General Fanti, the minister
Parini, and most of the officers of the staff.
In the staff in attendance on Garibaldi figured
twenty of his most devoted officers—Trecchi,
Caldesi, Baron d' Ondes, and two correspondents
of English journals.
After thp review, the King and Garibaldi
tvithdrew to concert the plan of the campaign.

Intelligence was received here yesterday that
'Admiral Persano has received orders to attack
Gaeta by sea, notwithstanding the presence of
the foreign squadron. It is probable that he will
do so, because the sooner the siege of that citadel
is ended the better for all parties concerned. If
the siege be prolonged, the Powers might insist
lipon an armistice taking place, which would be
viewed here as a grave check.
The Genoese journals announce the embarkation
of troops for Naples. Nothing shows more clearly
that an immediate attack by Austria on Piedmont
is no longer apprehended. These troops were
'retained at Genoa for several days, in order that
they might be ready to be conveyed to the banks
of the Mincio in case of necessity.

THE WARSAW CONFERENCE.
(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
BERLIN, Nov. 1, 1860.
The Prince Regent received to-day, by tele-
graph from St. Petersburg, the melancholy tidings
of the decease of the Dowager Empress of Russia,
Widow of the late Emperor Nicolas, who died this
korning at half-past seven, at Tsarko-telo, near
St. Petersburg. The death of Her Majesty has
caused the greatest grief in that city. The Em-
Press saw and gave her blessing to all her chil-
dren yesterday. She charged them to transmit
tile expressions of her tender regards to .her rela-
tives belonging to the Prussian royal family. The
Princes Charles and Albert, brothers of the late
Empress, are to set out to-morrow for St. Peters-
burg. Nothing appears to be decided as to the
departure for the same destination of the Prince
Regent, as his indisposition still continues.
There is no further news "on the subject of
Warsaw, unless it be the confirmation of the
negative result of the interview. We are spared
those fallacious i eports which, after the Tceplitz
meeting, so much disturbed the public mind. No
doubt some journals give a sort of timid currency
to the report that Austria had received certain
Promises of support or guarantees, in the event of
'Venetia being attacked, provided it were made by
Sardinia alone; but they are not worthy of notice.
The negotiations- for the allocation among the
different States, other than England and Ham-
burg, of the three million destined for the redemp-
tion of the Stade Duties, are in a good train for
Settlement. The allocation will probably take
Place according to the respective flags, and not
according to the place of origin of the produce
and goods.
The National Gazette publishes the text .of the
declaration made by the Saxon Envoy at the last
sitting of the Diet to consider the notification
made by Sardinia of the blockade of Ancona. It
is in these terms—
The notification of such an act manifests a want of
respect for. the Confederation and a despisal of political
Principles which regulate the acts of its members. It is
an act which forms part of a manifest rupture of the
Public peace, and an infraction of public law, such as
history has scarcely hitherto seen an example. Even
although this incident belongs to history, a writing
Which in the eyes of the Royal Government (of Saxony)
forgets the respect due to the Confederation, ought not
to pass without meeting with a direct refusal.
' I am informed also that the representative of
Austria, on the same occasion, passed himself
With much energy, to the same effect. This was
only what might have been expected.
The proceedings of the French Admiral before
Gaeta are the subject of a good many comments.
One often hears the observation made in public,
that France appears to comprehend and apply, in
a manner altogether novel, the principle of non-
intervention. To-day, for example, it even ap-
pears that tnews has been received here to the
effect that the French Admiral has declared a
certain extent of the Neapolitan coast, from the
Garigliano as far as Spalango, to be neutral
ground. I cannot vouch for the truth of this
statement; but I should not be surprised to find
it confirmed.
A deputation of the Regiment of Cuirassiers,
of which the late Empress, strange as it may
sound to English ears, was the chief, has set out
for St. Petersburg, to be present at the funeral
obsequies.

CORONER'S INQUEST.—Yesterday, John Wybergh,
Esq., deputy-coroner, held an inquest on the body of
Morris Broderick, twenty-two, years old, a labourer.
Re was missed about three weeks ago, and on Saturday
his body was found in the Canada Dock. Verdict—
found drowned.

A rather singular story comes to us from St. Domingo,
viz., the discovery of a bust of Lord Nelson in a remote
district. The bust was found on a fetish altar, where
for half a century it had been worshipped as a heathen
god. _

SWITZERLAND.--The Ticino Gazette announces that,
in consequence of the threatening attitude of Piedmont
and Austria towards each other,, the Federal Military
Deiartment has been engaged in preparing measures
for protecting the frontier of Switzerland in case of
War.

NEWSPAPERS IN PARlS.—Paris possesses at present
503 newspapers ; forty-two of these, as treating of
Politics and national economy, have to deposit a security
in the hands of Government; 460 are devoted to art,
science, literature, industry, commerce, and agriculture.
The most ancient of the latter is the Journal des Sevens,
and dates from the year 1665.
ADVENTURE WITH A BEAR. —An inhabitant of the
Valley of Louron (Hautes-Pyrenees), a few days ago,
drove his milch cow—which constituted the,
,principal
resource of his family—to a neighbouring mountain to
feed, taking with him an axe to cut down any dead
branches of trees he might perceive. While occupied
in lopping off some parts of an old fir, he suddenly
heard a noise near him, and going to the spot was horror-
struck to see his cow lyinc, on the ground struggling
With a large bear. Without thinking of the danger he
incurred, the man rushed forward and struck the bear a
heavy blow with the axe on the head. The latter then
let go his prey and turned against his new adversary, and
rising'on his hind legs, prepared for a fight. The man,
however, seeing that his cow had not been 'njured and
Was galloping towards its home, did not feel any inclina-
tion to renew the contest, and so took refuge in a tree
which stood near. The bear, furious at the blow it had
received, came to the foot of the tree, and commenced
climbing ; but when it reached near the branch where
the man was perched, the latter dealt it another violent
blow on the head, which made it descend more rapidly
than it had gone up, and it then crawled away towards
a ravine. The cow having reached home without the
blan, the family became alarmed, and a number of his
neighbours, armed with pitchforks and other weapons,
'arne in search, and found him still perched in the tree,
fearing to descend. A battue was decided on for the
eat day against the bear.

LATEST NEWS.

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THE FRENCH IN SYRIA.

A leading article in the Patrie insists strongly
upon the necessity both of augmenting the French
army in Syria to a larger force, and prolonging
its occupation for a longer term than it is limited
by treaty.