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

RECONSTRUCTION OF THE NAVY.

The Times anticipateS that very probably it
Will be announced next Session that the navy
must be redonsitucted. To those -Who remark
that this has just been done; the 'reply Will be—
' Yes;
.but that is the old navy---,We navy of
1859, built of wood, steaming 10 knots, and with
nq
ti,ron
.ple:tes. It has been proved that an iron-
plated l'essel,'steaming 13 knots, is possible, and
that such a vessel mast destroy any number of
Marlboroughs and Royal Alberts.: The Gloire,
built at Toulon, is the new worictei,' and unless
we would see the ocean in the power of our
rivals, we must begin at once to build Gloires' in
such numbers as to defy rivalry."

Mr. John Hardy, proprietor of the Low Moor iron
works, is the Conservative candidate for Dartmouth.
The Paris correspondent of the Times insists that a
third division of Prenoli troops is preparing to proceed
to liomd.

The=tN;o divisions ,of tie cliaiinet fleet tire to winter
at Pmltimbtitli; and D',evonpert, rematning while there
under the eon;trifaait, of the fespbotive P'ort Admirals.
Mr. Sergeant Pigott, v 4 o came, out first as dari'didate
for Reading, has now two dottpkii4S" Captain
Walter, brother of the county member, and the ot'hdr
Mr. Shaw Lefevre, a nephew of the late speaker.
As soon as the gigantic iron-plated shot-proof ship of
war has been fairly commenced the work is to proceed'
without intermission, as the naval authorities are
desirous of getting her afloat early next year.

MUSICAL, DRAMATIC, LITERARY, AND
AUTISTIC NEWS AND GOSSIP.

drie of the mitio'r Atistrlati Boni lasers,
is frst il4g4:, •
• ••,
Mr. -Shirley DiebVe w doirideite a tie* fiction in
Once a Week.

Mr. Blanchard Jerrold is, we bellee, busil< onoged
on a romance entitled " Two Black Masks."
" Quite Alone " is said to be the title of a novel in
preparation by Mr. Sala.
During the past week Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean
have been performing at the Cambridge Theatre.
A weekly journal, printed in Italian, has just been
started hi Nev' York, with the title L'ltalo Americana.
liiinietir says that both Mr. Thaekeray and Mr.
TrolloPearegigil fdpubifsh novels irt shilling numbers,
INieyerb'ccr des, alternitired, it is tigdid poshiteir
affirmed, id efitrust his'rZa' died to' tine' dradd Opera,
Paris.
Mr. Tom Taylor, it runs in tile I,ltedtri:4ai faVe's
the place of Mr. Oxenford as dramatie triad, to' elf6'
Times.—Literary Gazette.
Mr. Wilkie Collins's " Woman in White " is in its
third edition, and gives promise of a fourth—an unusual
success for a guinea and a half novel.
The congress of German artists which met this year
at thisseldoff, lies set on foot an Albert Durer fund, for
the Ossistaiide df pot German artists,
, Jules Gerard, the lion htinter, has published anew
hook, at
,Dteiltifs;_ferts, Whith he defeldps Ws plan
of eiplet bag' Ai?) Eraji6:4 liy,riieafis a organised earearis,
The engraver Herr ,TaCabl,', p f ~Berliji, lids left for
Rome, in order to finish his drawing' AO Ate' "" soh eiof
of Athens," The undertaking is Will/04VA by ern
ment.
Of two volumes of biographies of famous inventors
of modern times, just published at Stuttgart, both are
devoted to English worthies—James Watt and George
Stephenson,
The ne* toVel by Signor Roffini, the author of " Dr.
Antonio," Vittiell was formerly announced as in prepara-
tion by Me'ssts.'Sdlitlif i lder, and Co., is, it seems, to
bte 4ititiigd "
Dr. 4160411, Sitpprinteirciebt of the Astor TAblary of
New ,Yorit, lies returned WV. his Ettropedu tYtlt With
some five or six thotteand VoliiVes. of Valuable orkg,,
purchased for the library.
The total amount of the auction for whieli the obj
of Art left by the late Alexander von Humboldt Were
sold, is 10,000 thalers. Humboldt's scientific instru-
ments, and the large gold and silver coins of considerable
value, were not included in the sale.

Notwithstanding the contradictions which have ap-
peared, it continues to be stated that a new manzine—
**nether Temple,Age or not—is about to be started, and
that neit JantiarY NCI see ale ilrst number of another.
vielr from Mr. DiCkeisis pert,
The: flifth iolUnie of We " CorreSpOndletree of Napoleon
the First" has hist apVeared` at Paris: It contains
letters, orders Of the day; prooPpitatforis &c., tiro the
22nd September, 1798, to the fstll.o4ol;hr; 1799, thus
including the whole Egyptian expediting... ,
De la Roche's pictures, the " Cromwell" arid a 17dpti-f
Icon," that are preserved in the Town 'Alumna at
L'eipsie, have been seriously damaged by a hailstorm,
on the 27th ultimo, broke all the western
windows, and injured the ifra;named picture in twelve
places, the latter is si±tet•th
Among the products of the Ardetientl',Aitss, during
the coming season, will figure a volume of aeriphical
sketches by the late Theodore Parker, to be entitled‘
" American Worthies," and to comprise the essays read
by Mr. Paker in Boston, on Washington, Franklin,
Jefferson, Webster, and other American heroes.
If The lyt very feeble emanation from Mr. Dickens's
pen I3ti~ited Pown"—liall a six months' run in
America betOrc it yids stinted in All the Yeir Round,
and Messrs. Harper paid ofet to Mr. Dickens £l,OOO
for the privilege. When re-printed; it Oiled etactly ten.
pages of the, English periodical, so that Mr. Dickens
really made £lOO per page by this very inferior pruritic-

In the October number of the Atlantic Monthly, Mr.
Hawthorne contributes a paper upon Burns. The new
romance by Mrs. Harriet Beechpr Stowe will be com-
menced in the Atlantic with the January number. The
Boston Transcript erninterates among the regular con-
tributors to the Atlantic, Longfellolif, Emerson, Whit-
tier, Holmes, Hawthorne, Lowell, Hose Terry, Mrs.
Stowe, Miss Prescott, and Fanny Kemble.
Mr. Webster, elbowed off from his own stage by the
success of Mr. Bourcicault's Irish play, is about to take
a new Adelphi piece, by Mr. Watts Phillips, which he
is bound •to produce at a given time, to Drury Lane.
Mr. Tom Taylor is to fit the entire company with a
drama. A trial of Shakspere will be made, it k true,
early in the year, for which Mr. and Mrs. C. Kean are
'erigaged, and the programme goes on to promise Mr.
Gustavus Brooke for Easter, on his return from Aus-
tralia.
Tile LITERARY SEASON. The literary season,
which begins with Mr. Murray's annual sale, promises
to be one of unusual activity and excellerfbe one to
add'very considerably to any new edition of Walpole's
list of " Noble Authors." Dukes, earls, and barons,
ladies and honourables—half the peerage is rnshint, into
print. Inquiries made at the chief publishing houses
put us in possession of the following literary news
history and biography, the reading public may expect
Lord Stanhope's " Life of William Pitt ;" the Duke of
Buckingham's "Memoirs of the Court and Cabinet of
William IV. and Queen Victoria ;" two more volumes
of Mr. Carlvle's "Frederic the Great;" Mr. Dixon's
"Personal history of Francis Bacon ;" Lady Chatter-
ton's "Memoirs of Admiral Gambier ;" Mr. Kinglake's
"History of the War, in the Crimea ;" Lord Carnar-
von's " Recollections Of the Druses ;" Lord Auckland's
"Memoirs and Correspondence of William, First Lord
'Auckland ;" the second volume of Lord Dundonald's
" Autobiography ;" Lady Llanover's " Autobiography of
Mary Granville, afterwards Mrs. Delany ;" the Dean of
Chichester's "Lives of the Archbishops of Canterbury,
from Augustine to Hawley ;" the completion of Mr.
M'Knight's "Life of Edmund Burke;" Mrs. Piozzi's
"Autobiography and Letters;" Mr. J. B. Cobbett's
"Life of William Cobbett ;" Mr. St. John's " History
of England under the Saxons;" Mr. Motley's "History
of the United Netherlands ;" "The Diary and Corre-
spondence of Lord Colchester ;" the late Mr. Leslie's
" Life of Sir Joshua Reynolds ;" a second part of Dr.
Wolff's "Autobiography ;" a " Life of Jerome Bona-
parte ;" the completion of Mr. Hazlitt's " History of
Venice ;" and Mr. Trollope's " Paul the Pope and Paul
the Friar." In trawls and sport, we shall have Mr,
Hind's "Narrative of the Canadian Red River, and Assi-
niboine and Saskatchewan Exploring Expeditions ,_•" a
first volume of " The, Voyage of the Novara Round the
World;" Mr. Boner's " Chamois Hunting in the Mountains
of Bavaria ;" Mr. Lee's " Six Mouths' Season of the Tro-
pies ;" Mr. Grantley Berkeley's '‘ Western Prairies ;" Miss
Bremer's "Two Years in Switzerland ;" Senor Valde's
" Six Years in Western Africa ;" Mr. Collyer's " Chase'
of the Wild Red Deer in the Counties of Devon and
Somerset ;" Sir Francis Head's " The Horse and his
Rider ;" Mr. Georre Borrow's "The Sleeping Bard."
In miscellanies we shall have Mr. Emerson's "Conduct
of Life;" Mr. Davis's "Carthage ad its Remains;"
Mr. Jeaffreson's " Book about octors ;" Mr. Wise's
"Shakspere and his Birthplace;" the Rev. W. Elwin's
" Life and Works of Pope ;" Dr. Mackay's " Jacobite
Ballads of Scotland ;" "The Complete Works of Hogarth,
with an Essay on the Genius of Hogarth," by Mr. James
Hannay ; the late Mr. John Austin's "Treatise on
General Jurisprudence ;" Mr. Grote's essay " On Plato's
Doctrine of the Rotation of the Earth ;" " Why Paul
Ferrol' Killed his Wife," by the author of "Paul Ferroll ;"
Mr. Newton's " Researches and Discoveries ;" Mr. Wil-
kin's "Political Ballads of the Seventeenth and Eig,lteenth
Centuries ;" Dr. Percy's "Metallurgy," and Professor
Bentley's " Manual of Botany."

ACCIDENTS YESTERDAY.—Thomas Gorst, labourer,
residing in 23, Summerseat, and John Kenna, a labourer,
residing in Hornby-street, fell together out of No. 2
room of a warehouse in Dundee-street, and received
severe contusions of the body.
DEATH Or MR. RICE, THE AMERICAN COMEDIAN.-
The American papers announce the death of J. R. Rice,
the transatlantic delineator of negro character, and well
known in this conntry as the original "Jim Crow," as
having taken place at New York on the 19th September.
When Mr. Rice returned from Europe he was eagerly
engaged by theatrical managers throughout America for
the portrayal of nigger peculiarities, and he played as a
star in most of the theatres. Prudence in pecuniary
matters, however, was not the gift of the departed
comedian, and his generous impulses led him to get rid
of money as fast as he received it he retained his popu-
larity to the last, but is believed' to have been in indi-
gent circumstances at the time of his death.
THE COMMERCE IN RAGS AT • LEonows.—The
Annales du Commerce Exterieur gives an account of the
presen.t state of the rag trade at Leghorn. From
some changes which have been lately made in the
quarantine regulations, that branch of commerce, which
has for some time past been in a very depressed
state, has now acquired considerable activity. Rags
.are imported into Leghorn from all the ports,
of the Mediterranean, the places furnishing most
being Greece, Egypt, Tunis and Algeria. These rags,
on reaching Leghorn, are
divided into five different
categories, and then re-exported. The quantity shipped
off amounts on an average to from 14.000,000 to
16,000,000 of kilogrammes a-year—the United States
taking about 12.000,000 ; England, 2,000,000 ; and
Spain, 100,000 kilogrammes. The prices vary from
21f. 56c., according to category. France does not
, import any, in consequence of the high prices.