The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-12-03 00:00:00

MONDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1800.

NEWS OF THE DAY.

ging Victor niinantiel made his entrance into
Palermo on Saturday last, amidst an animint of enthu-
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Before alighting at the palace, his Majesty went to the
cathedral, where he was received with much solemnity
by the archbishop, and he afterwards gave audience to
the chief constituted authorities and to deputations
from the municipalities throughout Sicily.
The reactionary movements in the Abruzzi, and even in
the city of Naples itself, are giving fUll employment to
the Picdmontese troops. These disturbances will, no
donht, continue, so long as Pravda 11. occupies a foot
of Neapolitan soil ; and, as a matter of course, the
principal fomenters of disaffection will be found in the
ranks of the priesthood, who are the Chief losers by the
change, They appear still to find some amount of
sympathy among the latiaroni.
The news from Gaeta is down to the 27th. The fire
of the besiegers had slackened, and the Neapolitans,
who were tinstiteessful in occupying some commanding
position in the suburbs, ate said to be entertaining the
design of destroying those portions of the buildings
which tslieltef the besiegers from the fire of the place.
Provisions are stated to he getting dearer, and cash for
the purchase of them becoming scateet,
On the subject of Austrian affairs, some confirmation
will be found in our telegraphic columns of what was
said On this topic by our Paris correspondent in the last
unmbef Of our paper.
An uncomfortable feeling seems to have sprung up in
Paris within the last few days regarding the moving cause
in the mind of the Emperor for the legislative and
ministerial reforms which he has decreed. It Is in-
sinuated, with some aptiearance of probability, that
the step which• his astute Majesty has thus taken
in a liberal direction, is with a view to enable
him the better id take the initiative in an
anti-liberal and anti-unitarian movement in Italy.
Various circumstances are quoted as giving strength to
such a supposition—such as the letter of Prince Murat,
a member of his family, who again introduces himself as a
claimant for the crown of Naples, which the French
journals are instructed not to declare vacant so long as
Francis 11. remains at Gaeta : the strange mission,
never yet thoroughly penetrated, of General de Goyon to
Rome, and the almost equally strange movements of
Admiral d e Tinan in the roads of Gaeta : and the con-
fident ton e which the semi-official press continues to
maintain 'on the subject of the resources of the garrison
of that fou stress. But still we are not Yet prepared to
accept thi s idea as the correct one. Many of the ;new
ministerial appointments are quite at variance with it,
and the it nportance of cultivating the alliance with
England, • which would not tolerate such a reactionary
policy as 0 at alluded to, is recognised in them all.
The. MOFS t important item of our news to-day relatefi