The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-06-06 00:00:00

ME DAY'S NEWS.

In the House of Lords yesterday, Lord Chelms-
ford moved the third reading of the Sunday
Trading Bill. Earl St. Germains and Earl Gran-
ville opposed, and Lords Teynham and Chlems-
ford defended the measure. After some further
debate the House divided, when the motion for
the third reading was carried by 40 to 29
majority, 11. The bill then passed. The Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Animals Bill was read a
second time. Some other bills were forwarded -a
stage, and the House adjourned.
In the House of Commons, yesterday, Lord
Palmerston said that the Government was ready
to furnish ships to survey the Northern Sea, in
order to test the possibility of laying a telegraphic
cable to America by way of Scotland, the Faroe
Islands, Greenland, and Labrador. On the motion
of Mr. Lindsay, it was agreed to appoint a select
committee to inquire into the organisation and
management of those branches of the Admiralty,
War-office, India-office, and Emigration Board, by
which the business of transporting, by means of
shipping, troops, convicts, emigrants, materials of
war, stores, and any other similar services, is
now performed, with a view of adopting some
uniform system by whidh such services may be
economically and efficiently cOnduete& under- the
authority of one consolidated- and responsible
department.
The most interesting and lengthened debate of
the evening was on Mr. B. Cochrane's motion for
• the publication of the details of all future
examinations of candidates by the Civil Service
Commissioners; .the object of which, as ,was made
very plain by the speech of 'the mover, was to
strike at • the• competitive system. The
Chancellor of the Exchequer opposed the motion.
Lord Stanley defended the present system, enter-
ing at some length into the advantages of com-
petitive examinations in bringing out the
merits of the several candidates. Those who had
been rejected had failed in the lowest elements
of the examination, in spelling and arithmetic.
Several members went into a detailed discussion
of the question. The mover having replied, con-
cluded by stating that as the report of a committee
on the whole subject Was about. to-issue, he should
not press the motion, which was negatived with-
out a division. Mr. Denman obtained leave to
introduce a bill for the amendment of the pro-
ceedings on trials for felony and misdemeanour,
the object of which was to assimilate the criminal
to the civil law, in enabling the counsel for the
prisoner to comment upon the evidence after it
had been given. Captain Jervis was making a
motion against the Wakefield prosecutions, when
the House was counted out.

A telegram from the Paris correspondent of
the Post states that a despatch from Turin
announces the renewal of the bombardment of
Palermo ~.at the expiration of the armistice.
This confi'rm's the report we published yesterday
of the King's rejection of the capitulation. We
are assured, from another quarter, that the King
of Naples had applied for aid to Austria and
France. It was supposed for a moment at Turin
that Austria hild moved down a body of 15,000
troops to create a diverAion. Such consistency
did the rumour obtain, that French regiments
were marched to the point indicated. The alarm
proved to be without foundation; but the prompt
movement of the French troops shows how
quickly any such enterprise would be met.
Francis Second, we are told, next applied to the
Emperor of the French for an armed mediation.
The telegraphic message found the Emperor at
Lyons; and we are assured that it received an
instant reply, to the effect that any interference
of France in this conflict was entirely out of the
question.

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By a later telegram from Paris we are told
that the reported commencement of hostilities at
Palermo is unfounded, and it is asserted that
the struggle had not been renewed up to the last
date. The capitulation had not been yet signed,
but the armistice was prolonged until the 12th
instant. It is further stated that it was hoped,
by the mediation of the commanders of the
foreign vessels, to arrive at an honourable
arrangement between the parties engaged, who
had.displayed equal bravery. By way of Genoa,
we .learn that Garibaldi was forced to grant an
armistice, on account of a want of ammunition.
It is rumoured that the insurgents found a large
sum of money in the royal palace. General
Letizia, it is said, left on the morning of the
for Palermo, to renew the armistice. Vessels
laden with projectiles continue, however, to be
despatched from Naples. The Government is
said to have ordered the Council of State to pre-
pare • a Constitution in conformity with French
institutions. Tt is stated that Garibaldi shows
great kindness to the Neapolitan officers whom
he has piken prisoners, among whom he hopes
some defections will take lage.
According to a still later. telegram the arznistice
had been indefinitely prolonged. General Letizia
had arrived at Naples, the bearer of la new
capitulation, and he is said to have pointed'out to
the King that the soldiers would refuse to fight,
and that desertions had commenced to beecnie
numerous. Great enthusiasm in favour of Gari-
baldi was spreading in the army, and in Sicily
the clergy were publicly preaching a crusade
against the Neapolitan Government.
The Commendatore Martino, the Neapolitan
Minister at the court of the Holy See, has ;!eft
Rome for Naples, he having been summoned
thither by the King.,— The Ambassador, before
taking his departure, had a long conference with
the Pope. itome is tranquil, but the inhabitants
are agitated by the grave news from Palermo.
Strong patrols traverse the town during the
evening. His Holiness is said to have expressed
his opinion that the iiiperor Napoleon and the
King of Sardinia had resolved upon the execution
of the progamme contained in the pamphlet " Le
Pape et le Congres." Signor CasiellaiJ4, the
Roman patriot, has been exiled.
The favourable news from China published
yesterday in anticipation of the China mail seems
of doubtful accuracy. These rumours are pro-
bably put forth for speculative purposes ; and
they have had their ofect on the tea market.
We are told by ether iiisiVate telegrams that war
is eonsiderei inevitable. Amongst the prepara-
tions for the war iu China, it may be noticed that
the Admiralty invite tenders •;totr 'the' supply of
2(1,000 tons ,of South Wales cosi, deliverable at
Hong Kong.

The treaty with Morocco has been published.
The first payment of indemnity by Morocco will
be effecttd. .on the Ist Jl.lly next. 'The Espana
states that Cardinal Wiseman was about to visit