The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-12-11 00:00:00

AUSTRIA.

THE MINISTERIAL CRISIS AT VIENVA.
VIENNA, Dec. 10.

The Austrian Gazette says the ministerial crisis
is over. Baron Schmerling has been definitively
appointed Minister of State, and it is reported
Was present at the Council of Ministers held
yesterday. Herr Plener has been definitively
appointed Minister of Finance. The future
destination of Count Goluchowski, the former
minister, is not known.

HUNGARY.
PESTH, Dec. 10.
The Congregation of the Comitat of Pesth was
?petted to-day. Counts Karolyi and Nyari spoke
in favour of the re-establishment of the laws of
1848. Agitation .prevails in Pesth, but no dis-
turbances have as yet taken place.

PRUSSIA.
A Berlin letter speaks of the probable retire-
inacuala of AL.. ale Tllulel Ga uL J üb6lv.u.

ROME.

ROME, Dec. 9.

Counts Trapiani and Trani have arrived here.
Count Trani leaves again this morning for Gaeta,
whither Count Trapiani will also return shortly.

THE DANISH QUESTION.

The Cologne Gazette says that a perfect under-
standing has been come to between the Cabinets
of Berlin and Vienna to take energetic measures
against Denmark. The other Governments of
Germany.have been solicited to send instructions
to their representatives at the Diet to support
the views of Prussia and Austria. They are
expected to be unanimous in this question.

THE WINTER IN THE BALTIC.
A letter from Cronstadt, dated November 30th,
says :—" As far as the eye can reach the gulf
appears to be covered with ice in every direction,
and unless some very great change takes place no
more lists will be published this year. Sledges
have come over to-day from Oranicnbaum."
Advices from Narva, dated November 30th,
state that the last ships had left that port. The
river was quite covered with ice and the naviga-
tion closed. No vessels wintering. Navigation
at Pillau closed December 4th.

The Daily Nam and Globe were seized in Paris on
Sunday last.
The Journal of Rome announces that the, sum received
as Peter's Pence exceeds two millions of Roman
crowns.
Lord Palmerston has consented to preside at a dinner
to Sir William Hayter, to be given soon after the meet-
ing of Parliament.
The accession of M. de Schmerling to the Cabinet of
Vienna is regarded as a proof that the Austrian
Government intends to persevere in liberal reforms.
The Globe announces that the Right Hon. Sir John
Young, formerly Lord High Commissioner of the lonian
Islands, is likely to succeed Sir William Denison as
Governor of New South Wales.
At the Southwark nomination, yesterday, the show
of hands was in favour of Mr. Layard. A poll was
demanded on behalf of Mr. Scovell, which was fixed for
this day (Tuesday).
The Lord Chancellor gave judgment yesterday in the
case of Evans v. Carrington, an appeal from Vice-
Chancellor Wood; he ordered the deed of separation to
be set aside, but affirmed the decree so far as the
marriage settlement was concerned, but without costs
on either side.
The Globe remarks that if it should turn out that the
gates of Pekin were taken just before the departure of
the mail, there is some probability that Messrs. Bra-
bazon and Boulby may have slipped through their
captors' fingers and found a safe refuge. It is stated
that although the Emperor of China has fled, the
members of the Tribunal of Rites remained at Pekin.
This body constitutes one of the highest authorities of
the emperor, on whom might devolve the duty of
negotiating between the emperor and the allied pleni-
potentiaries•

The following appeared in our later editions of
yesterday
MR. DISRAELI AND CHURCH RATES.
The Daily News remarks that at length the Conser-
vative party have what they have so long desired—a cry.
Mr. Disraeli, at Amersham, has fallen back on the
oldest tradition of his party—Church and State—and
commits himself unreservedly to the most unpopular
and impracticable incident of that tradition, the existing
system of Church rates.
The Morning Herald, in its notice of Mr. Disraeli's,
speech, says it is not' satisfied with the present state ofi
the law ou church rates, and is couYi4oed that its most

striking defects must be removed if these:rates are to be
maintained.

THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON AND
FRANCIS 11.

The Post says the. Emperor Napoleon-has lately
addressed communications to the ex-King of Naples,
pointing out to him the expediency of his withdrawing
from Gaeta. If Francis IL refuses to follow this advice,
the Emperor will be liberated from his promise to keep
open a retreat for the King, and the French fleet will
OR the waters of Gaeta. The King's advisers have
chosen to turn this charitable action to their political
advantage, and the Emperor therefore now withdraws
from them a limited protection which was beginning to
threaten very dangerous consequences. •