The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-11-24 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRANCE.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

FARIS, Friday, Nov. 23.

The rumoured intention of Francis 11. to retire
to Rothe; where ;the queen'and her infant chil-
dren have already arrived; is very distasteful to
the -French Government. The duty of protecting
his Holiness himself, which has been assigned to
General de Goyon, has already caused a sufficient
amount of embarrassment to that officer. How-
ever, the Commander-in-Chief of the French
garrison is at this moment all powerful in Rome,
and his influence is, by this time, also felt in
Terracina, which, as I mentioned; was to he this
day occupied, by the French troops: This latter
ociip4tioti is thiii, e4lained i General de
GoYoh, after
.CoiNultititi 4411 .li. 6 draniniont;
-. • .•
positiVely..refUsed, to accede to the request of
General Cialdini, to be allowed to occupy the
town conjointly with the French. The Pied-
montese general referred the subject to Victor.
Emmanuel, then at Naples, and M. de Grammont
wrote home to the Emperor of `what he had done,
*hi& mgt. with his Imperial Majesty's approval.
Thle 2111/ita4 Gazette of Italy annouaes that
the 30,000 Bciurbon, trdopa Which crosged the
Papal frontier are shortly expected at t36toa by
detachments of 3,000 each, to be afterwards dis-
tributed atqong the different regiments of the
Italian army, as soon as Gaeta shall either have
been taken or surrendered. The first detachment
Wag td arrive on the 28th. General Tarr is
reported to have giten In his resignation, but it
was not accepted, and he has been entrusted with
the reorganisation of the Hungarian Corps at
Nola, a place at a short distance from Naples.
Letterg, froin Reyrout contain grave aecitsa-
tiOng *hist the patties Charged With the appli-
cation of the monies ealledted in France' for the
relief of the Christians, and which hate given rise
to very loud complaints. It is known that fiery
COn. siaciale rums were collected in France, as
well as
.in England, fdf this objects The 111Qui-
teur alone received more than 60/100 francs
(£12,000). Nearly two millions (X 80,000) welt.
paid over,' in addition, to the Society of Eastern
fiteeariais; at the head of which is Father Lavi-
, gene. The latter set Otit foi the East with a
certain
,nuMber of medical then, along
with hima very large mini. On the arrival of
the party at B'eyrout it Was thought that this
Money
,Would haie been applied by the worthy
father in relieVing the wants of the most neces-
sitous of the 6firistiati families, or that it would
have been employed, *it'd the Consent of the
poor people themselves, in rebuilding the -Villages
which had been destroyed by the Druses. Not at
all. He was surrounded; after
.the first moment
of his arrival by crowds of Jesuits, Ltdarists,
and even Sisters of Charity, who induced him to
dOnsent to apply the money to providing a fund
td Meet the e:tpenses of placing 150 Greek
Children at the Colleges of Gazir and Ani-Toura,
and the Pope was written to fot his consent to
the arrangement. But the whole Christian
pOptilation, on hearing what was proposed to he
dOn6 *itii the money collected for their relief, be-
came greatly eicltedi and addressed a petition to
the French Consul, which Is to lie followed by a
remonstrance to the home goverifilienti praying
that a commission be appointed to distribute the
funds, to consist of the principal inhabitants and
the chief foreign consuls. This is almost as bad
a &ite as the malapplication or misappropriation
of the Garibaldi
,subscriptions, which is made
made so much the subject, of torment in the
English journals at present.
:There has been a rumour in circulation for the
, kit few days, that the question of the creation of
• a 'special ministerial department for " les cziltes"
.(religion), is under consideration, with a view to
enable the doternment to cope with the difficul-
, ties which the religious question, that is to say,
the conduct of certain of the bishops and clergy
towards Rome, has assumed. It is also asserted
that considerable symptoms of opposition are
manifesting themselves on the part of the mem-
bers of the Senate to the line taken on this ques-
_tion by the Government, and that the clergy are
counting on the subject being introduced at the first
sitting of this body. Several deputies have also
come up front the Provinces, and are making no
secret of the dissatisfaction with which they
regard the late pamphlet "Pape et Empereur."
The reports of a change, or rather a modification,
in the constituent parts of the French Ministry
are very various and contradictory. It is posi-
tively denied that there is any intention of send-
ing M. Walewski to London, but :on Thursday
the subject engaged the attention of the Council
of Ministers held on that day, and MM. de
Morney and Walewski had afterwards each a
private audience of his Majesty.
The, Archbishop of Paris has assembled the
cures of his diocese, and has come to an under-
standing With them respecting the mode of col-
lecting the St. Peter's pennies ; and the Arch-
bishop of. Toulon has just published a mandenzent,
in which he urges upon his clergy the duty of
bestirring themselves with this object in the most
vehement manner.

The Bank of France has officially announced
that it has concluded an arrangement with the
Bank of England for an exchange of two million
sterling of gold for a like amount of silver. The
negotiation was, I believe, concluded through the
instrumentality of Baron Mallet, one of the re-

gents or governors of the Bank of France, who
again set off for England yesterday on the subject
of the arrangement.
In England, immense sums are yielded to the
revenue from postage and other descriptions of
penny stamps ; but it never appears to have
occurred to Mr. Gladstone to touch the sub-
ject of lucifer matches —an article which in
France is manufactured in enormous quantities.
The French Government, it is said, propose im-
mediately to subject all allumettes chintiques to
a small impost, and it is even asserted that it
intends to go further, and monopolise the sale of
the article, on the ground that the manufacture is
very carelessly conducted at present, and that
immense quantities of matches are made which
take fire at the very slightest contact with other
substances, thus causing great danger to owners
of property. It is alleged that the insurance
companies have of late made great complaints on
the subject, and have represented to the Govern-
ment that the vast majority of fires which occur
are due to the employment of these carelessly
made lucifers. A tax upon manufactured cigars
—not bad ones, but the good ones ( cigares de
luxe)—is also spoken of ; but surely this would
be smoking the cigar at the wrong end with a
vengeance.
The Emperor went to the Theatre Italien on
Wednesday evening, to see Il Trariata performed.
His Majesty, I am told, joined most demonstra-
tively in the applause, especially at the end of
the first act, when Madame Peneo, a really great
artiste, who recalls, perhaps more than any other,
the ever celebrated Malibran, came before the
curtain, in reply to the loud demands for her
appearance.

Several circumstances contributed to the eleva-
tion of prices and shares at the Bourse yesterday,
but especially the news of the signature of the
treaty of peace with China, and of the conclusion
of the arrangement between the Bank of France
and. the Bank of England. The price of Rerte
rose accordingly to 70.30. The railway market,
however, still shows little animation.

THE GRAND BALL AT HAMILTON PALACE.—AII
the arrangements for this assembly, which came off on
Tuesday night, were completed on the afternoon of that
day. On one sidewall of the tribune where the ball
was held, was observed a full-life portrait of her grace
the duchess, by Winterhalter, and opposite there was a
bust of Napoleon 1., by Thorwaldsen, beside which
was a bust of his Majesty the present Emperor, by
Park. Several beautiful chandeliers in crystal were
suspended from the ceiling, and a gold glittering chan-
delier hung in the centre. In the lower or front
entrance hall were orange trees in full bloom at inter-
vals filling up the blank porticoes. Adjoining the
tribune was the library, which was set apart as a
waiting-room, while on the other side were tea-rooms
and dining-halls laid out profusely with viands of all
kinds. The grand staircase was adorned on one side with
a full-size portrait of the Empress Eugenie, and opposite
there was one of his Majesty the Emperor, which
appeared to much advantage. The marble hall was illu-
minated with gasaliers, lighted up in every corner, and
looked georgFous in the extreme. Outside the Palace the
avenue was -lightcd up with lamps, centred in evergreens
and pedestals, which tended greatly to assist the
conductors of the different and numerous carriages,
which began to arrive punctually at nine o'clock, or
shortly thereafter. The Duke of Athol and his youth-
ful representative, the Marquis of Tullibardine, arrived
at the Palace at a quarter past six o'clock p.m. Mr.
Howard's excellent band from Edinburgh officiated in
the musical department, and consisted of fifteen per-
formers. They were relieved at intervals by his Grace
the Duke of llamilton's piper (Mr. M. M'Carfrae) in
full costume, bearing on his breast his many well-
earned laurels in the shape of gold and silver medals,
and who performed with much satisfaction to the
assembly.