The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-08-11 00:00:00

268 492

Ships of the line .. .. 8 .. 30
Frigates . .. 27 .. 63
Inferior vessels .. 89 106

Since the return of the Emperor to Vienna from
Tapplitz new embarrassments of a very serious character
have transpired to assail the Government. The spirit
of exclusiye•nationality in Ilungary has driven matters
to such a pitch in Austria that the greatest prudence on
the part of the ministry is indispensable to prevent the
violent disruption of several large territorial districts of
the Austrian monarchy.

It seems that we are not even yet done with the
Pope's Irish Brigade. According to a despatch from
Genoa, dated Monday last, "The Irish Catholics have
endeavoured to set fire to the steamer Liverpool, recently
purchased by Garibaldi, but that they did riot succeed in
the attempt."

If we are to credit a letter from Vienna, dated the
6th instant, it appears that in consequence of negotia-
tions which took place during the course of last month
between the courts of Vienna and of Rome, those
soldiers who remained faithful to the Duke of Modena
after the insurrection in that Duchy, entered into the
service of the Pope, and were placed under the command
of General Lamoriciere. The sums necessary for the
support of the Modenese troops in Italy, figure in
the war budget of Austria for a million of florins, a
circumstance which has provoked very lively criticisms
on the part of the members of the new council of the
empire. This circumstance will also explain the anxiety
of the Imperial Goyernment to have this item in the
budget smoothed over.
A telegram states that. Garibaldi is still at Messina ;
but that he feels himself strong enough to dispense with
any further offers of volunteer aid, in the carrying out
of his projects.
By the Calcutta, China, Australian, Bombay, and
Mauritius mails, which arrived at Southampton on
Thursday last, we have dates from Alexandria to the
28th July; Malta, 31st; and Gibraltar, to the 4th inst.
The export trade at Mogadore was reported very brisk,
but business in the import market exceedingly dull ; the
recent arrivals from England, including the steamer
Amazon, with cotton goods, had completely glutted the
market. The accounts from Saffi are to the 19th. The
exportation of grain at that date was prohibited. Re-
presentations on the subject were made to the Em-
peror, who refused to accede to the wishes of the
exporters ; and on this account there was but little
doing in that business. Garbansos were plentiful in the
market. On arrival at Mazagan, the governor of that
town ordered the embarkation on board the Marocain,
of._ 471 boxes specie ; the value is said to amount to
1,200,000 francs. The commissioner sent in charge of
the money, Haggi Ahmet Habouba, took ill upon the
passage and died. The Moorish consul at Gibraltar
had directed the body to be placed in a shell, that it
may be sent to Tangier for interment. In consequenee
of this sudden death, the Marocain was refused pratique
at Gibraltar. General Echague took his departure from
Cadiz on the 28th ult., in the screw frigate Blanca, for
Porto Rico, of which island he has been appointed
captain general.

Patent ice machines have been introduced into Mel-
bourne. Large crystal slabs are being turned out as
rapidly as can be desired.

The town of Dover has been thrown into consterna-
tion by an appalling accident, which occurred on Thurs-
day evening last. While the Artillery Volunteer Corps
were engaged in gun practice at Archcliff Fort one of
the guns burst, scattering its fragments in all
It is believed that the accident arose from a defect
in the gun and not from its being imperfectly
loaded, as the ball discharged.from it reached within
a few yards of its proper range, which would not
have been the case had there been any defect in the
ramming of the charge. No event has occurred in
Dover for many years which has . cast such profound
sadness over the town. The following is a list,.so far
as can at present be ascertained, of the killed and
wounded :—filled : Lieut. G. T. Thompson, coroner of
the borough,- havingbeen blown. into the trench. Ser-
geant Monger, fatally injured, and expired after being
conveyed to the Military Hospital. Wounded : Mr.
Harris, a nephew of Captain Wollaston, and not
connected with the corps, was conveyed to the
Military Hospital, dangerously wounded ; gunner
Boulding, ankle dislocated ; gunner Hadlow, finger
blown off. Gunner Gilfillan, arm broken. Trumpeter
Tucker, blown into the trench, but not severely hart.
The whole of the injured men, Gilfillan excepted, werg
blown into the trench, 30 feet deep, by the violence of the
explosion. Mr. Monger is a tobacconist, Hadlow, a painter,
and Mr. Gilfillan, a tailor.
The investigations of the policewith regard to the
Frome murder are still being continued. They are
sanguine as to the result. A strict watch is still kept
over the inmates of the house, from whom the police are
unable to elicit anything further in addition to what
has already appeared, respecting tb.is dark transaction
The missing bedgown has not. been found, although
the most searching investigation has again been made
by the police of all the inmates of the 'Louse, and of the
persons in the locality likely to afford some information
on the matter. So minute . has been the search, that
last week the police applied to the Home Secretary for
an order to exhume the body of the murdered child,
thinking the uightdress might have been secreted in the
coffin with the body, as it was not interred until the
Saturday following the Tuesday when the nightgown ,
was first missed: The order was granted, but nothing
but the usual habiliments of death were seen in the
coffin. •

Queenstown is at present full of gaiety, and it is likely
to continue so for a short time longer, as the fleet will

not leave there for the next ten days. Upwards of
£5,000 have already been drawn from the bank for the
pay of the various crews since the arrival of the fleet at
that port.

The screw-steamship 'Majestic, is about now at Ply-
mouth, completing her stores. Mr. Justice Keating,
and Mr. Baron Channell, in the early part of the week,
paid a visit to the Impregnable, the flag-ship of the
Commander-in-Chief, now lying at that port.
The result of the Sligo borough election seems to have
taken all parties by surprise. At the eleventh hour all
the speculations of fractional majorities and neck-and-
neck contests were rudely scattered to the winds by the
sudden resignation or flight of Mr. Tenison, the Whig
candidate, thus leaving the field in the almost undispu-
ted possession of his Conservative opponent. The event
makes no change in the relative position of parties in
the House of Commons, save that Lord Derby has gained
a smart adherent in Mr. Macdonagh, the clever nisi
pries lawyer, who, unless he greatly disappoints the
expectations of his friends, is likely to prove an acqui-
sition to the ranks of her Majesty's opposition.
Clover is in abundance, for the rain is plentiful.
Many kind of crops are, however, not succeeding well.
Grapes rot; seeds will not ' grow; gourds cast their
fruit ; cucumbers gum and curl up ; the earlier flowers
of tomatoes, which usually yield the best, drop off with-
out setting; French beans make but little progress, and
show a yellow sickly foliage ; the more tender straw-
berries set imperfectly ; peach and nectarine trees in
many instances died after blessomirig, and the survivors
seem inclined to follow them. Trees that never before
dropped their fruit have done so almost entirely. To
crown all, grapes are shanking. Ills like those can only
be owing to the condition of the soil as regards tem-
perature, or to that of the atmosphere, or both com-
bined.

The recent grand display of volunteers at Edinburgh
has called forth the approbation of all the metropolitan
and provincial journals. " ' Edina, Scotia's darling
seat,' has just shone forth in a blaze of martial glory.
The English rose has mated with the Scotch thistle,
and is decidedly proud of her consort. The two nations
have one Sovereign, one Parliament, one empire, one
interest. They live like husband and wife, with occa-
sional bickerings, no doubt, as will occur in the best
regulated families, but with a positive abyss of love and
admiration underneath it all."