The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-07-27 00:00:00

July. 2f.

Minstrel, Hdm-mon;
. Pernambuco
Jason (se), Eustace Brazil
Columbu6,Wanless Qsiebes
Lorenzo, Marwick,
' Philadelphia
Era, Steer Genoa
Ceylon, Jenkins Dieppe
Centaur, Perriam Cadiz
Bulgur, Skove Keil
Mark That, Drury... Hamburg
Siren!, Thersen rfauthurg
Aron Princess Caroline,
Neilsen, Frederica
Graff von Schlieffen, Roff,Gesii
Perla, Menchaca Cienfugos
Paylo, Bozano Genoa
Orinoco, Krutli......St Thomas
Queen of the Netherlands,
Clapwitb, Odessa

Camden, Soloman New York
Rio Janeiro
Chicago, Chase New York
Leonidas, Anlrews,
Hon Kong
Donau, Black Charg leston
Rescue, Thomson Cronstadt
North Grearne, Baker, Bombay
Main, Jones ......Monte Video
Petrca, Stu-gins ...Alexandria
Coquette, Couche ...Monrovia
FOREIGN PORTS.
,Elsa, Hughes, from Bombay, and sailed June 5 for Liver-
pool ; Hanover, Rich, from Calcutta, and sailed for Demerara :
both at St Helena,
Maid of the Seas, Altata, fiom Mazatlan, and sailed for the
Channel.
SAh s_dilaiole n, Williams, from Valparaiso at Iquique, and railed
Cribe, hence at Bilboa.
es and Liverpool.
Honor,
fo ;a
i
hence at Ant. r Edelkamp, tver3-. -
Pe rsc strain
Warnear, hence at Texel.
Victors- ,
Fortuna,
•. iere hence at St. Nazar.
Mysterie, Sar.n
Grave, hence at Bruges.
Indefatigable, De
smith, hence at Bordeaux.
E
both for Vera Cruz, and sal: •
d June 22nd for Laguna.
wild Wave, Curt:s, hence. and Elise, Varon, from Hull,
SPOKEN
Ed. Everett, July 16, 42 N, 24 p
William Wirt, hence for Boston July 22 49 N, 11 W, per Pilot.
er Pilot.
Herrnina, Antwerp, for Rio Janeiro, July 16 N, 10 W 9 per
Stack
Gizuria.
Broughton, 25, off the South
perlllailelt,orhfen(seteeafmor-tßugor.bay, July
3lutlah, hence for Bombay, May 31.
Semarang, hence for AdeA, June 1, per Oden.
Tropic, Bombay for Liverpool, March 28, off Ceylon.
Athelstan, Singapore for Liverpool, May 12, 35 5, 21 E,
Courier, Benin for Queenstown, June DI, 8 N, 23.R'.
Constance, Bombay for Liverpool, May 11, 22 SW, E.
Amy, July 14, to !miles W of Ushant.
Morning Star, hound S W, July 9, 47 N, 36 N'•-•
Benzueld, hence for New orleans, .fund 26, on the Banks near
Key west.
Mess'enger, hence for Marseilles, July 20, 16 N, 9 W.
Oden, hence for Bahia, June 17 6 N, 24 w.
Skiddaw, Iquique for Liverpool', July 12, 38 N, 37 w.
Margaret Dean, outward bound, July 22, 49 N, 9 W.
Louisa Augiuta Amelia, Calcutta for Liverpool, May 18, 33.5,
22 E.

THE DAY'S NEWS.

In the House of Lords yesterday, after several other
bills had been advanced a stage, the Census Bills for
England and Ireland, the Tithe Commutation, and
several other minor bills, were read a third time and
passed. Some conversation took place, in respect to a
proposed levy upon districts, in order to pay for
adjutants and other training expenses of the volunteer

force. The proposal was opposed by Earl Granville,
and.the subject dropped.
In the .House of Commons, the Gas (Metropolis) Bill
was read -a third time and passed ; and Mr. Bright gave
notice of a motion for postponing the subject Of national
defence till a future period. The Chancellor of the
Exchequer stated that he should bring forward the
Paper Duties Bill on Monday week. After several
questions on the Sicilian difficulty had been asked and
answered, the House went into committee on the Euro-
pean Force (India) Bill, and shortly afterwards
adjourned.

It appears that before the evacuation had been de-
cided upon there had been three serious engagements
near Messina ; in the two first of which Garibaldi's
forces, being outnumbered, suffered severely. The
third despatch from Colonel Medici to the Dictator, and
which is dated the 17th of July, says :—" The enemy
renews the attack with greater energy and greater
force. Three thousand men are fighting on our right
against five hundred cf ours. The light lasts for more
than two hours with a well-maintained fire. The
enemy has bombs and cannons, with positions well
chosen ; he resists energetically., Two charges with
the bayonet on the part of our men decide the. day.
The enemy retire to Milazzo; has suffered severe losses
in killed and wounded. We a ENV- killed, but a great
number wounded. We have made some prisoners.
The pirit of the volunteers is admirable."
On receipt of this intelligence, the Dictator left
Palermo, on board the City of Aberdeen, with a strong
contingent. He placed himself at the head of the army
which is operating in the province of Messina, and
would probably have soon turned the fortune of the day,
but the effusion of further blood was fortunately pre-
vented by the voluntary withdrawal of the Neapolitan
forces.

The Pnesn of Naples, a new journal, says :—" Several
vessels of the Neapolitan navy, which had sailed for
Messina laden with bombs and stores of all kinds, have
come back here. It is supposed that the Sicilian fleet,
which consists of the 'Washington, the Franklin, the
Lombardo, the Oriso, the Veloce, the Duca-di-Calabria,
and the Elba, intercepted their passage, and compelled
them to return.
Garibaldi has quite a respectable fleet already, and is
said to have just received an accession of two fine
steamers from England, one called the British Vulcan,

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and a considerable sum of money. Kossuth, by the
wa-y, is expected in Sicily, and members of -hii staff
have, indeed, already arrived.
It is generally believed that Garibildi's operations
against Messina ate a feint, to cover a greater enter-
prise; and that as soon as Garibaldi shall have set foot
on: the Neapolitan continent, the so much. talked of
royal army will 'melt away like snow. in the April
sun. The Neapaitan navy is so much against the
King that the Government. dares not dare to employ it
against the-conqueror of. Sicily, .nor does he dare to use
his fleet for transporting fresh troops either Co Calabria
or the Abruzzi, lest it should bolt to Palermo. In point
of fact, there is no doubt that the hours of the Bouibou
dynasty are now numbered, and that its complete ruin
is near at hand.

News has arrived- of fresh massacres in Syria, and
France proceeds with her arrangements for the proposed
expedition. The French fleet In the Aleditthan'ean is
to be increatiecito tie* sail of the line, and amongst

the vessels commissioned is :La Gloire, one of the steel-
Piked rams.
Considerable interest is now attached -to the meeting
' cir the Emperor or Austria and the Prince Regent of
Prussia at Tceplitz. The Pays has heard, but of course
does not guarantee the news, that a treaty between. Atria
-and Prussia has been prepared in anticipation of the meet-
ing which is held at a place not divested of some interest-
ing historical associations. Tc glitz, says our Gazetteer,
is a town of Bohemia, in 'the cirde of Lentmeritz, cele-
brated fur its warm' baths. Near this' place the Austrians
defeated the Prussians in. 1762, and liEro the allied
sovereigns bad their head-quarters a considerable time
in_lBl3._ it is 16 miles_north-west of Lentmeritz.

A letter in the Cologne Gazette states that the Pope
bas refused to adopt any of the measures suggested by
the French Minister, and has declared, if these Changes
are forced on-birri, be will abandon his States: The
Papal GOvebmeiit is kept in constant alarm by the rapid
organisation of an army in Sicily.
The Daily Ti s wal the first to announce, froth its

continental correspondent, the fact of the general
disaffection of the 'lrish contingent .of the Papal army,
.and-the-virtual-dismemberment of the- corps. For, this
we were gravely called to task by a Roman Catholic
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newspaper published Ihere,,t,whieh "giie an impudent
denial of the fact. The correctness. of our original
ifatement. has been abundeitly confirmed, not only by
subsequent intelligence front Rome, but by the nate-
fives of-some of the returned eruSadersi and which. have
been made public through the medium of the press.
We have given' else Where the awakening of ono poor
fellow who had. gone out dreaming of a marshal's
baton, and has retarned• a sadder and a wiser man. The
Times of yesterday also publishes a lengthy letter
from another victim, who signs himself. J.
O'Brien, and who, after being thorangbly die-
gusted *ith *hat he saw in Italy, was fortunate
enough to get away along with sixteen others.
They were, however;' Attest famished on the return
journey, which was made by way. of France, and met
a painful disillusion of the love and admitation
-which they beleted :that Irishmen were regarded by
the French. This is an amusing part of the narrative,
but sive hive space only for the conclusion of the letter :
" The Xation states that things are going on
flourishingly with the present number in Italy. Now,
this is a most undisguised falsehood, for when the order
t4l. 'Meth from' Rome to Spoletto was given at Cimana
barracks, previous to my departure from Rome, not one
man would march ; all had to be dragged ddt.irstairi
like slaves), and impeded only at the point
of siviss bayonets ; and, again, when the oath of
allegiance was- administered, not a man consented to
_sign the papers or take the oath. These . are
facts, and only a few facts out of many, and I
should like to know by what process of ratiocination the
editor of the Aczeicfri would attempt to disprove them.
Should he make the 'attempt, I will reply to him by
another seties2af facts, the publication of which could
not be very agreeable: to him. I have in my hands
about forty letters, which were given to nth privately
when leaving Rome ; and, if I find further 'publication
necessary, I shall be able to rived series . of eitracts
.frost i these documents, which ate authentic, integral, and
true, and would inevitably put to the hhish the atithois
of those, calumnies-and lies to which I have alluded.
The demonstrations of. the Belgian people, on the
occasion of the King's journey through the" provinces,
in which the whole stress is laid on the unanimous
wish of the Belgians to preserve their separate national
existence, their constitution, and their dynasty, continue
with unabated vigour. The latest reports are from Char.
Jerbi, Ilea? the French frontier, where the King's recep-
tion was even warmer and more noisy than elsewhere. The

abolition of octrois All through the. cities of Belgium,
of which the Minister Frere is, the chief author, has
greatly added to the popularity of the Government.
When the octroi-houses were taken down at Br ussels
the people carried the materials before the Royal Palace
and ado a bohtre cf theni, amidst continuous shouts
of the "King forever," 3‘ Three cheers for Frere," and
singing of the." Brabauconne." As octrois are the rule
in France, the measure was not quite without political
bearing. ,

On the day of the eclipse, and while the sun was
obscured, the town and neighbourhood of Annecy
(Savoy) was visited by a tremendous hurricane. In the
town, stacks of chimneys and parte of rOoS were bloWn
down, and the streets covered with bricks and tiles, and
in the country trees were torn up by the roots, and
others had large branclies torn off. The obscurity of
the eclipse, added to that caused by the storm, almost
turned day. into night, and in many houses it was found
necessary to have lights. Reports of similar stories
reach us also from different parts of Switzerland.
The papers of. yesterday publish a report on the state
of the Atlantic cable in Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, by
Mr. Varley and Captain Kell, the gentlemen deputed
by the Atlantic Telegraph Company to recover the
cable. The attempt, we regret to state, has failed, only
some seven miles of the cable having been raised, and
this consisting of a number of pieces. Much of the
cable was in a very bad 'state, which the above gentle-
men attribute to the rocky character of the bottom.
After making a great many attempts, the two officers
were compelled to abandon the enterprise.
In the grave circumstances which have so suddenly
arisen in connection with the Eastern question, we are
not surprised the: Ministers should feel considerable
perplexity. Two Cabinet Councils have been held
within the.last few days. The Session of Parliament,
which will shortly close, has been singularly unproduc-
tive of important public measures ; and although it
commenced so early as January, its labours are summed
up in the fact that up to the present time only 56 pub-
lic and 17610ca1 Acts have received the Royal assent,—
most of the public Acts passed, being merely of a tech-
nical character.

With reference to our export trade, the Board of
Trade returns, issued yesterday, show that the value of
British and Irish.prodnce and manufactures exported in
the month of June last was £9,238,454, being a decrease
of £1,429,437 as compared with the same month last
year. The comparison of the six months ending June
30th is more favourable, being £62,019,989, against
£63,003,159 in the same month of last year.

We have already mentioned that a memorial; very
nutnerously and influentially signed, had been drawn up
on the subject of an increase of the Episcopate; and
this, we learn, has now been presented to Lord .Pal-
merston. To carry out the object, a bill has also just
been introduced into the House of Peers, by -Lord
Lyttleton.

The 117th annual Conference of the Wesleyan Con-
nection, established by the Rev. John Wesley, is now
being held in London, nearly 450 ministers being in
attendance. The first meeting was held on Wednesday.
The highest honours in the gift of the Conference are
the offices of President and Secretary, and their election
is looked upon with solicitude by the great body of
Methodists throughout the world. All ministers in
attendance who have been in orders fourteen years and
upwards have a ,vote for these high officials, which is
given by ballot. The Rev. William Wood Stamp, of
Liverpool, has been chosen President by 186 votes.-