The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-10-25 00:00:00

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OF EVERY STYLE MADE TO MEASURE,
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E. BURDEN,
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THE BUTTERMAN ON THE 18TH,

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Air—" John Gilpin."
Oh, Kelly is a citizen of very great renown,
The pride, not only of his own, but every other town;
Now Kelly, though it may seem queer, so hard at work has
been
Of late, that he for many years, no holiday has seen,
So, Thursday being a gala day, he thought that he might spare
Himself for once, and so not miss so splendid an affair;
He gave his men a holiday, for him you always find,
Though on his own amusement bent, to others ever kind.
The morning came, he dressed himself in " gor-ge-ous array,"
And to the spot he thought the best he quickly takes his way ;
The crowd behind the barricades, which formed so dense a mass,
No sooner saw him, than it ope'd its ranks to let him pass;
Thus he obtained a splendid place to view whate'er befel,
And many would have given worlds could they have seen as

well
Nols, the Artillery brigades, preceded by their guns,
In sight appear, and through the crowd a wondering murmur

runs;
'Twere hard to match hi all the world that firm and stalwart

band
Of warriors, ready, when required, to guard their native land ;
Then came the gallant Engineers, and after them are seen
The Riflemen in uniforms of scarlet, grey, or green:
Each volunteer moves gaily by, and treats with calm disdain,
The mud and cold, and worse than all, the never-ceasing rain.
The Magistrates and Aldermen had all passed by, and then
Arose a cheer, which those who heard will seldom hear again ;
For in a noble equipage the Mayor of this great town
Was seated, and with him there came no less than WILLIAM
BROWN,
Whose noble gift Oil Os bestowed on that auspicious day,
Will stand his monment for aye when he has passed away.
When all was over, wrapt in thought, home went the BUTTER..
MAN,
From what he saw, he took dhint, and formed this little plan.
If fate on him bestow tke means he'll act like WiLizAist BROWN,
And will a splendid Butter Place present unto the town
So let the town cry "Long live BRoWN," and KELLY, long
live he ;
And if he' only has the cash, he'll keep kis word you'll see.

Forty thousand pounds paid for the Library ;
Forty thousand parsons are weekly supplied by Kelly;
A Bonus is periodically anaounced by the insurance companies
A Bonus is granted in each transaction at the Butter Place:
The run on the Yellow Eightpenny is remarkable,
Its quality is more remarkable ;
But the most remarkable is the inexhaustible supply.

THE BUTTER PLACE
IS TOP OF WILLIAMSON-SQUARE.

YELL! OH! BUTTER THERE
AT BD. PER POUND.
ANY QUANTITY.

HIGH WATER, THIS DAY, AT LIVERPOOL.
Hour. Height.
MORNING Bh. 21m. 1 12ft. Oin.
EVENING

(coy pally Eintes.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1860.

NEWS OF THE DAY.

In our yesterday's impression we announced the fall
of Capua, and the entry of the Garibaldians and Pied-
montese into the fortress ; bet the Times' correspondent
at Naples would have us believe that the intelligence was
premature, and that it is on the heights over Capua, and
not on its battlements, that the national flag is now fly-
ing. There is little doubt, however, that the intelli-
gence that Capua has actually surrendered, is correct.
As for the startling announcement which the same jour-
nal has received from Naples, to the effect that orders
had been given to the division of the Garibaldian army
commanded by Colonel Turr, to be ready to start for sea
—"destination not known," and adding, that "the Hun-
garian Legion is to form part of it," we should not be
surprised to find that the troops here referred to are
geing on an expedition to Sicily.
The Constitictior6nel of yesterday has an important
semi-official article on the relations of France and Italy.
It is a sort of "apology" for the policy which has
been pursued by the Emperor of late towards Italy; and
its object is to show that it was the true, the natural,
and the necessary policy to be pursued in the circum-
stances. A summary of the contents of the article will
be found in our telegraphic columns.
It is curious to observe the ground on which the re-
call, by Russia, of her ambassador, and of the whole of the
legation, from Turin, is put ; the government of King
Victor has never taken any notice of the communication
and verbal representations made to it by the Court of
St. Petersburg—that is to say, it has been guilty of a
breach of courtesy, or of a violation of the rules of
etiquette ; and it is perhaps still more singular to note the
terms of the explanation given by the Cabinet of Berlin
for not adopting the same course—viz., that it is too late.
"We ought to have done it before," says the Prussian
Minister, "immediately .after the invasion of the
Roman States; but having let the opportunity pass,
there is no use whatever in now resorting to such a
step." The steed has been stolen, and what is the use
of shutting the stable door ?
The semi-official French papers appear to be quite
upset by the comprehensive character of the constitutional
reforms announced by the Austrian government. The
Constitutionnel gives a civil, but sneering, assent to them;
while the Siecle greatly doubts the intention of the
government to seriously carry out the measure, and con-
tends that the reforms have only been promulgated " to
captivate public opinion at the moment the Emperor of
Austria is vainly seeking to draw the Emperor of
Russia into a semiofficial alliance, which may
enable him once more to try his fortune
in Italy." Notwithstanding all this, the Warsaw Con-
ference is a great fact, and if no great positive results
arise from the meeting, there is every room to believe
that much positive evil in store for Europe will either
be prevented or neutralised by it.
The affairs of Syria are looked upon as serious. The
French Government is determined to represent the Porte
as not only incapable of protecting the Christians, but
that its army is actually an accomplice in the outrages
perpetrated upon them. These views being officially
expressed, people need not expect to see the French
evacuate Syria at the end of the stipulated six months.
Francis 11. has caused his views and feelings to be
represented at the Conference by means of a memo-
randum addressed to all the European courts. He
protests in this document against the invasion of his
kingdom by the Garibaldians and the rialmontese

attributes to treason his having been forsaken by his
people, enlarges upon the state of extreme distress into
which he has fallen, and endeavours to establish between
the causes of his fall and the dangers which menace the
other thrones of Europe, a connection which every
Sovereign who is loved and respected by his people will
not be slow to repudiate. The memorandum is dated
so far back as the 6th, and a copy of it was put into the
hands of the Emperor Joseph by the Prince Petrulla,
His Majesty's envoy at Vienna, in a private interview
which he had with the Emperor in that capital a few
days ago, with a respectful request that it might be
submitted to the assembled Powers.

It will he seen from our Paris letter that a large majo-
rity of the representatives of the various interests in
France, affected by the commercial treaty, have given an
opinion, on the invitation of the Minister of Commerce,
to an abbreviation of the periods within which
--to operation.

the treaty is to cote 1..

York on the 11th,
The

The Prince of Wales reached N .
and experienced a most enthusiastic reception. .;
ball on the following evening went off with great spirit.
The impOrtant ease of Penn and Fenn, merchants,
in the leather tiade,eame on for adjudication yesterday

at the Bankruptei, Court, London. The Commissioner,
who attributed, imprudence and recklessness to the bank-
rupts; suspended their certificate for six months, with
protection.
The cork Herald states, on credible authority, that
one of the eatli st measures to be introduced by; the
Government, during the iie4..t ,Willbe a for
the abolition of the office of Lord-Lienteit of felapd~
An exposition, which will be interesting to English
manufacturers, is to take place at Verviers on the 27th,

the day fixed for the visit of King Leopold to that city.

The articles exhibited are to consist entirely of the pro-

dune of the place—woollen cloths, woollen yatn, Mg..
Chinery , metals; and Coal: The interest of ibe ceremony
, • „..
arises from the circumstance that not one ofthp articles
thus exhibited has been got up with i view to the exhi-
bition, and the obligation imposed upon each frlaiitifac

turer to bring forward a specimen of each tissue he
produces.

Some of the Manchester merchants who recently
returned from Paris, where they had spent some weeks
in giving valuable assistance in fixing the tariffs to be
charged upon cotton goods, were again telegraphed for
on Monday evening, and departed for that capital early
last Tuesday. , Two delegates from the Leeds Chamber
of Commerce have also gone to Paris to be present at
the ensuing discussion on the woollen duties.
The South Eastern Gazette says that tbe gales during
the past week have severely tried the channel paCketg
running between Dover, Calais, and Ostend. On Meg-
day last the wind was so strong that the South Easterii
tidal packet was unable to get into Folkstone Harbour,
and had therefore to run to Dover to land her
passengers.
The Right Hon. Frederick Peel, who has been
nominated Secretary of the Treasury hi the room of Mr.
S. Laing, M.P., now Finance Minister for India, is the
second sou of the late Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel,
Bart., M.P. He was born in 1823, and was educated
at Harro* and Trinity College, datiihridge, gaining
considerable honours in both institutions. iti 184fi he
took his B.A. degree as Bth junior optimi and 6th
classic. He was called to the bar in 1840, but never
practised. In this latter year he was returned M.P.
for Leominster, and on the 7th of May in that year
signalised himself by his maiden speech in favour of the
Parliamentary Oaths (Jews) bill. The hon. gentleman
represented Leominster up to 1852, and Bury from
1852 to 1857, not being returned at the general election
of the latter year. He was Under Secretary, for the
Colonies 1851-52 and 1853-55; Under Secretary for
War 1855-57 ; and on resigning office, owing to the
loss of his seat in Parliament, was made a Privy
Councillor. Ile was again returned for Bury in 1859.
The inquest on the bodies of the two children, Eliza-
beth sane and Fanny Gowland, who were murdered by
their mother, Margaret, the Wife of John George
Gowland, on Sunday evening, in High=street, near
the parish church, Bradford, was opened on Tice Idyl
before Mr. Jervison, district coroner, at the 13
Head Hotel, Lower Cheapside, in that town. The
woman herself, who, it will be remembered,
attempted to commit suicide by cutting her own
throat, after despatching her two girls, was stated to be
still alive in the Infirmary, bat was gradually growing
weaker. A dissenting minister has attended her ever
since her admission to the infirmary, and her mind
appears firm and cool, considering her awful position as
the destroyer of her children. The evidence taken
before the coroner was of little value. It appeared that
the woman was never married to Gowland, and that
she had been incited by feelings of jealousy to destroy
her children. The coroner adjourned the inquest for a
fortnight, thinking that in the meantime the woman
may recover sufficiently to make a statement in reference
to the case.

The will of the late Right Hon. James Wilson, the
financial minister of the Indian Council, who died at
Calcutta in August last, has just been proved at the
Probate Court, Doctors' Commons, by his executors,
through Messrs. Preston and Webb, of Carey-street,
Lincoln's Inn-fields. The will is written on twelve
sheets of paper, and was executed shortly before the
right hon. gentleman left for India. He appointed his
three brothers, Mr. Walter Wilson, Mr. John Wilson,
and Mr. George Wilson, Roxburghshire, his executors
and trustees, and a gentleman named Bagehot. The
personalty is sworn under £35,000. After some small
bequests, the trustees are empowered to realise his real
and personal estate ; his widow has a life annuity of £5OO
and a part of his estate, if the same should exceed a cer-
tain amount, for her separate use. His property is to
be divided equally among his six daughters, with some
contingencies as to their children. The testator expresses
himself favourable to his trustees continuing the Econo-
mist newspaper under the present editor, which paper
was established by him. Two of the daughters of the
testator are married, and there are provisions in the will
as to the share they are to take with his other children.
A letter, which reached Liverpool last Tuesday,
brought intelligence of the total destruction of the ship
Glenbervie. by fire, on the 6th of April last, when off
the Falkland Islands. The crew were fortunately saved
by the brig Figro, and carried into Monte Video. The
ill-fated ship was bound to Valparaiso, with a cargo of
coals, from Glasgow. The fire is supposed to have ori-
ginated by spontaneous combustion. The same letter
states that 22 vessels, including the Caldee, were lost in
the gale at Buenos Ayres. The Isabel, Blue Jacket, and
Macduff had arrived safe at Monte Video.
With reference to the loss of the ill-fated Connaught,
a Boston telegram of the 10th says :—" When the
Minnie Schiffer arrived at her wharf, immediate steps
were taken by the agents of the Galway Steamship
Company in this city to relieve the wants of the pas-
sengers. They were furnished with food and clothes
of every description at once. Those bound out of the
city were freely furnished with railway tickets to their
destination, and those remaining here with boarding
houses and money. Everything that was possible was
promptly and cheerfully done by the agents. Captain
Leitch, officers, and engineers, will leave for England
by the Canada, next Wednesday. The stewards, sailors,
and firemen will go out by the Glasgow, sailing on
the 13th."

paralleled contrast between its intentions and
actions,—an assumed and apparent liberalism
when in danger, said to be followed by reaction
when that danger is supposed to be past,—an
asserted incapacity to take decidedly the side it
loves,—a pretended yet questionable supremacy
in numerical power, and an unproved 'impotence
of judgment on the part of that power, as to what
ought to be done,—it is adroitly advanced
by our contemporary, that the Prussian despatch
is, because it is, and apparently for no better
reason, "infirm in argument and ptirpoSe to a
Surprising degree," to assert that " Prussia is
far from wishing to dispute the great value of the
national idea," and that "it is essentially +l-
- avowed moving power of -policy which in
Germany will a...1;4V aim at the development and
MO reunion of the national Powers in a more
efficient and powerful organisation," is simply to
Maintain that "it is only itt the legal Way of
reforms and by respecting existing rights; that a
regular Governnient is perniitted to realise the
legitimate wishes of the People ;" and "the
idea that the
national a; arid ilia whenever public
opinion should be pronounced in favour
(if those wishes, the existing authorities
ought to abdicate their power." These are pro-
nounced to be rank Prussian heresies ! To suppose
that the work of reform has been abandoned by
Sardinia tor that d revolution is; it netts, to
involve a contradiction of principles *HA tiiiist
deor4e the +ieWS of the Regent's Cabinet of ail
inthienee in this matter.' Diplomatic notes, we
are told, must not attempt to enforce abstract
notions of morality. Count CAVOUR is not bound
to listen to German logic, or what the Times calls
Casuistry. The question having been simply how
far did the Prince Regent approve of certain
steps,—and the justifiableness of resistanee to
established governments haVing been, in some
points, always a nice considerationi it Was iitterlY
inconsistent With itrOn SCHLEINITZ'S duty to
Pronounce decidedly for or against the debateable
Proposition. • That the Prussian Minister should
have considered the laws of nations of superior
importance to the selfish and dynastic importance
of Sardinia, and that he should have dared to
Warn Sardinia as to the Illegality and pekiloiis
nature of its prodediire; We are tti believe is dome-
thing so dreaciftil that it is iiiipossible to conceive
of Thigiand viewing the matter as anything less
than an underhand attempt to betray its great
and glorious freedom into the hands of
despotism, and to commit her to a warlike
and aggressive policy from which we can only
clear ourselves by an inconsistent renunciation
of every principle of freedom, justice, and
international law ! Is it so Is Prussia the
opponent of Italian nationality or the reverse ?
Can it be said that Austria will join us in any other
sense than that of approving of all that Prussia
has said ?

After a great deal or attempted "wrapping in
the Mist of abstract morality " on the part of the
times, as to the policy of the Prussian Regent's
Government, it is comfortable to reflect that no
unsound principle seems to have been adopted by
Prussia. Our contemporary, for its own purpose,
choses *to assume that there is necessarily a
great difference between England and Prussia,
but the assumption is altogether unproved. Upon
the whole, it is especially incumbent upon the
people of England to beware of the one-sided and
untrustworthy views of the Times on this point.
Whatever may be the proper path for England to
follow, we feel abundantly assured that it could
not follow any more suicidal course than to give
any—even the slightest—effect to the ex parte
and unfounded views of " the leading journal."

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with the Emperor be desirable only in view of circum-
stances altogether exceptional, it is not the less true
that the Cabinet of Berlin has done wrong, and will do
still further wrong, by affecting never to wish to estab-
lish an united plan of action as regards certain questions
with the Cabinet of the Tuileries.

I need hardly tell you hoiv greatly the fore-
going sentiments have delighted the semi-official
prints Who write in the interest and on the
instructions of.the Cabinet of the 'l4nileries.
The Chambers Of Conitherce, and the Cotisuita,-
tive Chambers, who were invited by the Minister
of Commerce to give their opinion as to the pro-
priety of abbreviating the ,delays cis tegards,the
application of the treaty of Commerce with Eng=
land; hairs replied tothe tintilher of 113.Sixty-
sit have asked that the periods fixed by the treaty
be maintained, and these belong to the trading
districts of France thirty-three of the other
'who are for the' most part connected with
the wine-growing departments of the south, have
asked that the periods for bringing the treaty
into operation be anticipated; and the remainder
have declared either that they could not give any
opinion before they knew what the new tariffs
were to be, or that they were not interested in
the qtestion one Way or the other,
It will be Bebk that a large majority of the
repreSentatiVeS Of the different bedies interested
in the ne* treaty are adVerSe to the Proposal to
anticipateLthe .Perio.dEi Of .. its application; but
Whether the government of the Emperor will act
upon this opinion or not, is a different matter.
The channel leading into the. port of Havre is
about to be enlarged, and a decree, which was
signed on the 17th, has just been published,
authorising the necessary works to be carried into
execution without delay. The total expense is
two millions of francs (£80,000), of which sum
two-thirds will be defrayed out of funds advanced
by the town, and the remainder will be debited
to the second section of the Budget, cap. 39,.
'Which authorises the payment.

LNT EST NEWS.

(BY BRITISH AND IRISH MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)

THREATENED BOMBARDMENT OF
GAETA. _ _ _

It is reported at Paris that the arrival of the
French Admiral and his ships at Gaeta is to pre-
vent the bombardment of the place.

ABANDONMENT OF THE LINE OF THE

VOLTURNO.
The Tinies has received tlfe folloWiog telegram
from its Naples correspondent : Naples; Oct.
23.—Cajazzo and the vicinity have been evacuated
by the Royalist troops. The line of the Volturno
has been abandoned for that of the Garigliano.
The national flag floats upon the heights above
Capua. Hopes are entertained that Capua will
be shortly evacuated.
The Tintes has also received the following froni
diiisiorl lids ieceived orders to
be ready to start by sea-destination not known.
The Hungarian legion is to form part of it:

GREAT REVIEW OF THE ARMY OF ITALY.
As soon as the annexation of Naples shall have
been officially completed, there will be a review
of 100,000 men throughout the whole of Italy,
and it is hoped that there will be an army of
300,000 in the line by the spring. If Austria
decides upon action, her attack will be sudden.

THE WARSAW CONFERENCE.
WARSAW, Oct. 24, Noon.
This morning the Prince Hohentollern Sig-
maringen visited the Prince Regent, and Count
Rechberg conferred with the Emperor of Austria.
Up to to-day, no special conference of the Minis-
ters of Austria, Russia, and Prussia has taken
place. The Emperor of Austria and the Prince
Regent remain here until Friday.

NAPLES.
The French admiral has arrived at Gaeta from
Naples, with two ships of the line and two
frigates.

FRENCH POLICY IN ITALY.
PARIS, Oct. 24.

The Constautionnel publishes an article headed
" French Policy in Italy," and signed by its edi-
torial secretary. This article, which is consi-
dered semi-official, commences by energetically
repelling the accusations brought against the
Government of the Emperor by those who
reproach him for not intervening in Italy against
the revolution, and by those who wish to see him
sustain the Italian movement at all hazards.
French policy could not, without compromising
most incontestable principles and its essential
interests, hold one or the other of the two lines of
conduct. In taking part against Italy the Empe-
ror would betray his origin—he would lose the
character he holds from universal suffrage by
which he was elected, and would divest himself
of the authority necessary to a Sovereign of
France for the good of Europe. The more he is
equitable to people the greater is the service
rendered by the Emperor to the principle of
authority. Besides, an intervention could only
be a military occupation• of the Peninsula. What
would Italy, England, and Europe have said P
They would have looked upon the Peninsula thus
protected as a French Italy. The other attitude
was equally impossible and dangerous. It would
have made us an accomplice of the revolutionary
state of things. It would have caused us to break
with Russia, Prussia, and Austria, and have brought
us to a general war. The Emperor would have
changed his role. Moderator of the revolution,
he would become its chief. Pacificator of Europe,
he would become its terror. Arbiter in questions
of political equilibrium, he would lose the titles
of his competency. Representative of the national
will, he would become a mere party instrument.
Thus France could neither support revolutionary
intentions nor absolutist reactions in Italy. What
line of policy should she follow ? Here the article
enters upon consideration of the political condi-
tions of each of the Great Powers of Europe, and
having reviewed the state of things in Italy, it
draws the conclusion that a Congress is possible,
and defines the part France would take therein.
The article concludes thus :—A n organised and
powerful Italy is henceforth to the interest of
Europe. In consecrating it by an act of high
jurisdiction, Europe would show as much prudence
as justice.

THE FRENCH SYRIAN EXPEDITION.
An article in yesterday's Moniteur is considered
unfavourable to the evacuation of Syria, by.the
French, in the stipulated six months. The Porte
is represented as not only incapable of protecting
the Christians, but its army is accused as an
accomplice in the outrages perpetrated upon them.

AUSTRIA.
NEW CONSTITUTION FOR STYRIA.
VIENNA, Oct. 24.
The official Weiner Zeitung publishes an Impe-
rial patent, dated October 20, constituting a sta-
tute for the organisation of the provincial Diets of
Styria. The Diet is to consist of six representa-
tives of the clergy, twelve representatives of
landed property (to which certain privileges are
attached), ten representatives from certain char-
tered cities, two from the chamber of commerce,
and twelve from the other communes of Styria ;
making in all forty-two members, of whom forty
are to be elected. The Emperor appoints the
Presidents of the Diet.

PESTH, Oct. 23.
This morning the garrison marched out for a
review. General Benedek took leave of the
troops, and addressed them in a speech.
The proposed illumination of the city did not
take place by desire of General Benedek, who
stated that it would be better to present the costs
of the illumination to the Prince.

SARDINIA.
TURIN, Oct. 24.
Baron Ricasoli is reported to have resigned.
TURIN, October 26.
It is asserted that Baron Ricasoli remains in
office. Advices received here from Naples, to the
evening of the 23rd instant, do not confirm the
despatch originating from an official source,
announcing that the Garibaldians had entered
Capua. King Victor Emmanuel had arrived at
Venafro. No further news has been received here
concerning the result of the voting in Southern
Italy.

SERIOUS STATE
CONSTA OF THINGS IN TURKEY.
NTI, Oct. 17.
It is asserted that several ambassadors have
requested that Turkey in Asia should be visited
by the Grand Vizier, as well as Turkey in Europe,
the state of the former being equally serious.
Arrests are reported to have been made in the
army, and among the lower clergy of Constanti-
nople. Several Poles and Ferrad Pacha have
been arrested.

RUSSIA AND
A Turin letter states, that the recall of the
P lEDMONT.
Russian minister, and the whole legation, is
notified on the ground that the government of
King Victor Emannuel has never taken any
notice of the communication and verbal repre-
sentation which the court of St. Petersburg
thought fit to make to Piedmont respecting every-
thing connected with recent events, and especially
as regards the entrance of Piedmontese troops
into the kingdom of Naples.

PRUSSIA.
In reply to a despatch from the Russian
Government, the Cabinet of Berlin has stated
that it is now too late to recall the Prussian
envoy from Turin ; and that if such a measure
was advisable, it should have been carried out
immediately after the invasion of the Roman
territory.
Regent is expected at Berlin on
the 28th. Prince
BthP .

THE FRENCH FUNDS.
PARIS, Oct. 24, 3.15 p.m.
The Bourse has been dull, and closed rather
fiat. The final quotation of Rentes was 681. 85c.,
lower than yesterday.
being 10 centimes

MURDER OF ALDERMAN SHEEHY.
LIMERICK, Oct. 24.

Nothing further, positively certain, has as yet
transpired concerning this calamitous event. It
is hoped that a full investigation will take place.
By some the said affair is looked upon as the
result, of adeidorttl said one of the latest reports
is, tlidt the dlderidati eras reading in bed on
the night ici (f*stiotli
dentally caught fire and led to: the &tit! tesifit.
It is almost. impossible to say, from the state of
the body, whether the head and legs were cut or
bin* off;, and thiS favours, to a certain aitent,
the idea that it May have resulted froni accident.

The following appeared in our later editions of
yesterday :

THE ROMAN STATES.

The Post has received the following telegram
from its Paris correspondent :—The last intelli-,
gence from Rome states that the Pope has defini-
tively renounced all idea of quitting the city.
Orvieto will not be occupied by the French
troops, but will remain to Sardinia.

One hundred young men, the elite of Cubitt and Co.'s
establishment, have been embodied as a volunteer corps.
The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge
has presented a Alter cup to be shot for by the Cam-
bridge University irciltinteers;
It is generally belieVed. that flirt
.of the steamers
• •
recently wrecked in the Baltic were est in consequence
of the pernicious custom of piling up the decks with
goods.
Admiral Sartorious has addressed a long letter to the
Times on steam rams, in which the opinion is expressed
that there can be no compromise between the old system
of naval construction and of naval warfare and the new,
and pronounces in favour of the latter.
Mr. Whitworth had an interview with the Emperor
Napoleon a few days ago. The official experiments of
the Whitworth rifle having been successful, the Emperor
is prepared to purchase the French patent, so. as to
make the invention available for the French army.
Advices from Rio Janeiro, by the French mail, men-
tion the failure of Mr. A. Curnette, a French resident
engaged in the, ilour trade. Liabilities amount to about
£l6O 000. He has niade an, arrangement with his
creditors to pay 60 per cent. and to Conan& hid btigiiiess.
The Times, in a leader, points out the inherent Vacil-
lation and insincerity of Prussian policy. Prussia is at
once Protestant and despotic: she must hold Poland by
an understanding with Russia, and the Rhine provinces by
an acquiescence in the principles of 'B9. Prussia flutters
between two parties, like the bat in the battle between
the birds and beasts. She merits, and will receive, the
mistrust both of Legitimists and Liberals.