The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1861-01-19 00:00:00

purpose.

Accounts from Vienna, published in the National
Gazette of Berlin describe the military measures
of " precaution" which are being taken by the
Austrian Government with regard to Hungary.
The feeling in the latter country is described as of
the most revolutionary kind. The tax-collector
refuses to pay over the taxes to the State; the
Palatine does nothing to prevent the legally pro-
hibited sale of_ tobacco; the circulars of the
superior courts are set aside by committees ; and
the regular course of the law is completely
stopped.
According to a correspondent of the Nord,

Austria has arranged the preliminaries of a treaty
of extradition with Prince Michael of Servia, for
the delivery of refugees,—an engagement on the
part of the Prince which, it is remarked, has a
direct tendency to make Servia a vassal of Aus-
tria! The Government of the Porte is likewise
said to be engaged in the formation of a " pre-
cautionary" army, which is to consist of 50,000
men, and is to be commanded by Omar Pasha
who has been recalled for this purpose. Russia
declares that she cannot allow the Principalities
to become the focus of insurrection against her
authority, and Turkey is alarmed at the demon-
stration which the Government of the Czar brings
to bear upon the localities of the alleged disaf-
fection.

A telegram from Naples gives the name's of the
members composing the Cabinet of Signor Poerio.
The list includes Signor Liborio Romano, the
constitutional minister of Francis 11., and the
chosen of Garibaldi on his arrival in Naples as
Dictator. From Gaeta the • news is that the
bombardment is to be resumed next Monday, and
that the place will then be attacked both by
land and sea, unless Francis 11. shall previously
withdraw.

One of the French semi-official papers is ia-
strurted to announce that the Papal Nuncio is

shortly to ittuni—to Tait; thus inviting the
infereneb- that an accommodation of some kind
has been patched up between the Papal Govern-
ment and that of Napoleon 111.
The Times, in the midst of all that busy din of
preparation which is heard on the Continent,
announced yesterday, in its military intelligence,
that it is reported at Chatham garrison that a con-
siderable reduction in the army will be made at the
end of the financial year, and that the army
estimates to be presented to Parliament are being
prepared in accordance with the intention. There
is to be, it seems, an entire re-arrangement of the
Depot Battalions, and the Indian Depots are to
be reduced to half their former number. We
believe, however, that it is extremely unlikely
that any diminution of the actual strength of our
military force will take place In present cir-
cumstances.

The Conservative candidate for Pembrokeshire,
Mr. E. Lort Phi Hilt, has been eleotad member
for the county by a majority of 215 over his
Radical opponent, Mr. Hugh Owen.

On the subject of the South Wilts election, we
learn that a numerous and influential meeting has
been held at Salisbury, at which it was decided
to set forward a requisition to Captain Bathurst
(who is with his regiment in Dublin), requesting
him to come forward and contest the county with
Mr. Grove, the nominee of Lord Herbert of Lea.
It is to be hoped that Captain Bathurst will
comply with the request, as the electors of South
Wiltshire (though respecting Mr. Grove as a
private individual) are by no means satisfied to
take him as their representative in Parliament.
An inquest has been held at Henly, on a
young woman named Thomason, in the service of
Robert Durno Mitchell, a retired naval surgeon,
who died of starvation, Mitchell, it will be seen,
has been committed for trial.

The Eastern Counties Railway Company have
reduced the speed of the fast trains during the
frost, and there will be more frequent stoppages
for the purpose of examining wheels, &c. Mr.
G. F. Train writes to recommend an American
wheel, which is not injured by frost, and which
he guarantees.
An important conviction—the first under a new
act—was obtained yesterday at the Woolwich
Police-court, a horse slaughterer having been
adjudged guilty of gross cruelty to several horses.
It will be seen that a great fire broke out in
the Temple, London, yesterday, in the last house
in King's Benchwalk.