The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-09-01 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRANCE.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, Thursday, August 31, 1860.
I should have been glad to have given you a
full translation of the speech of M. de Persigny,
but it is far too long to be included in the

allotted space of my letters ; and besides, the
telegraph has already, I am told, conveyed to you
an admirable analysis of it. The principal feature
_ _

hi the address is the declaration—made in the
most solemn form to which M. de Persigny

could give expression—that th© military rule of

Franc; is finished, and that an era of peace is
about, beyond all doubt, to open for Europe. It

is but fair to remark with reference to this
declaration, that this bosom friend of Louis
Napoleon has always stoutly professed himself to
be a most resolute friend of peace ; but at the
same time, it must not be forgotten, that his ideas
and his well-known aspirations render him par-
ticularly susceptible of being imposed upon by
pacific illusions. His statement may possibly be
true ; but as Europe is, at the present moment,
to all appearance beset by a greater variety of
troublous elements than has been the case for

many years back, it certainly showed no little
boldness on his part so authoritatively to announce
that the era of peace had actually arrived, and

that Europe had already entered upon it ; on the
other hand, such a declaration, coming from a
quarter so well informed, ought to be valuable

in reference to the policy of France towards the
affairs of Italy.
It is stated that explicit instructions have been
forwarded to the commander of the French naval
squadron at Naples to observe an attitude of the
most perfect neutrality, but many people have
experienced a difficulty in reconciling these
instructions with those which seemed to have
been sent to M. Brenier, enjoining him to press
upon the Neapolitan Government the propriety
of its apologising without further delay, for the
outrage committed upon him by some ruffians in
the streets of Naples the beginning of last quarter.
It has been suggested that there is some mistake
in the account which has been published of this
matter, and that the reparation for which M.
Brenier has been requested to apply, refers to a
demand for indemnity to the French residents in
Naples, who have suffered in their persons or
their property by the bombardment of Palermo.
But even if this version of the affair be the
correct one, it is extremely difficult to account
for the French Government having brought
forward such a claim at a moment like the
present, when there was nobody ready to listen
to it, and nobody competent to discharge it if it
were acknowledged. According to a correspondent
of a Paris paper the French ambassador has
made repeated attempts to obtain satisfaction for
the insult in question, but he has always been
put off with excuses of one kind and the other ;
till at length, finding that the man Campagna,
who"was notoriously the guilty party, had not
only not been punished, but had received his
passport in the usual way, enabling him to leave
the city as if nothing had happened, he was
determined to delay no longer in bringing matters
to a point ; M. Brenier therefore called upon
M. Martino, the Neapolitan Home Secretary,
and formally and positively renewed his claim
for satisfaction, stipulating—l st, For an indemnity
to every Frenchman who had suffered from the
bombardment of Sicily ; and 2ndly, For an
expression of regret on the part of the Neapolitan
Government for the outrage, to be conveyed to
the Emperor, his master, by a special ambassador,
and this within forty-eight hours. These demands
were under consideration when the writer of the
letter sent off his despatch, and it is to be pre-
sutnei they have been adjourned sine die.
Many speculations are being indulged in here,
in regard to the precise object of the mission of
Signor Farini and his colleague, to the Emperor,
at Chambery. It is said that Victor Emanuel
has charged these gentlemen to represent to the
French Emperor, that the Government of Turin
really cannot continue to occupy its present posi-
tion of neutrality any longer, and that the King
must be allowed to take part in the Garibaldian
movement one way or the other—that his Majesty
feels himself completely overcome by the present
course of events, and that he really cannot longer
delay to put himself at their head, unless he is
tct forego all the advantages, and surrender all
the objects, to which his whole life, and his whole
endeavours in time past, have been devoted; and,
therefore, that the Emperor must really say at
once how far he (Victor Emmanuel) can count
upon his support in the accomplishment of those
projects which destiny has plainly assigned to
him.

Your readers have no doubt seen the report of
the speech of the Mayor of Chambery to the
Emperor on his arrival in that city, but there is
a talk of a reply having been made to that oration
by the Emperor, which has not been published.
I shall endeavour to trace out this rumour
to-morrow.
The fine weather which has prevailed here for
some days past continues to be made the best use
of by the farmers in the neighbourhood. Every
hand that can be got hold of, is employed in
gathering in the harvest, and the greater portion
of the crop has now been housed in fair condition.
The. Bourse continues to be deserted by specu'
lators, and there are no indications of any return-
ing animation one way or the ether. Rentes
yesterday varied from 67.90 to 68.
PARIS, Friday, August 31, 1860.
According to the latest news received here
yesterday, the Count of Syracuse has written to.
the King of Naples, his nephew, representing to
him the expediency, with the view of sparing "the
blood of Italians," of his retiring voluntarily, as
was done by the Duchess of Parma last year
when her 9.Wia people rose at the approach of the
Franco-Sardinian troops; it is also stated that
' the, Neapolitan generals have expressed their
unanim,ous:concurrence iu this advice, that a great
number of the officers of the army have thrown
u their commissions, and that a general military
pronuncianzento was hourly expected. At ;the
same time, a despatch has arrived from Genoa
confirming the statements of the Genoese journals,
which have asserted that the departure of the
volunteers from Genoa, which had been for a
time suspended by orders of the Sardinian Govern-
ment, has been authorised of new, on condition
of the volunteers submitting to certain special
conditions,
From Messina there are accounts down to the
26th instant. A correspondent writing front
that place on that date, after remarkingthat,
since the passage of the Straits by Garibaldi, and
his landing near Mileto, "events have succeeded
each other with a rapidity which testifies to the
incredible activity of the General-in-Chief of the
liberaliarmy," and, after referring to the leading
incidents in the Calabrian campaign down to the
25th, states that the army of
Garibaldi, which
is now called the Southem
Army, entered Bag-
nora on the 2.Ath.: and that new corps of volun-
teers, who were arriving every instant from
Faro, were constantly being organised. Out of
these Garibaldi has formed a second army, called
the Neapolitan, in which a considerable number
of Neapolitan officers have taken aervine-. On
the 26th his advance Movement was continued,
and numerous volunteers were joining him at
every. step. The same writer gives the following
explanation of the death of Commander De Flotte,
who was formerly a lieutenant in the French
service, and who fell at Solaro an the 22nd.
"This officer had landed with a small force of
fifty men, one half English, and the other French,
with the intention of rejoining one of the corps
which has landed the evening before and had
been engaged in several smart encounters with
detachments of Neapolitans. On reaching the
neighbourhood of Solano, he and his little band,
suddenly fell into the midst of a battallon of
Royalists, who opened a violent tire upon his
little party. Always in 44vance, the gallant De
Flottp reeeird a ball right through his head,
but the survivors succeeded in effecting a junction
with General Cosenz, bringing with them the
body of their leader. By orders of General Gari-
baldi, the gallant deceased was buried in the
church of Solano, and his brave conduct and. that
of his heroic little band, were mentioned in a most
flattering manner in a general order."
An almost innumerable number o€ letters
are daily received from Naples, filled with details
of Garibaldi's successes, and commenting on the
vain efforts of the government to conceal tha
real, state of the case from, the public.. The
rumour of the demand for SatisibictiOn made by
the Marquis de Villamatina for the unprovoked
attack (of which full particulars are given in
La Presse) by some drunken Neapolitan soldiers
uPQn a Nin4.ll paytY of Sardinian Tcll9