The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-08-08 00:00:00

advices theta seems little doubt that the war is assuming

Latf,,er proportions, and that the Emperor is preparing
for a desparate resistance, propped up in the belief of

his invincibility: by the affair at the Taku forts. The
proposal of the Allies have been rejected with scorn, the
French receiving the largest share of Imperial contumely.
All the troops have left for the north. The British
Commissariat alone has engaged some 80,000 or 90,000

tons of
.shipping, and so great are its demands for

money that exchange has arisen considerably in conse-

quence of the large amount of bills drawn upon Eng-
land. Mr. Gladstone must look to it (says the Times'

special correspondent), for the money voted for the war
may not unlikely be all expended before a blow be

struck

The Nova Scotian arrived in the river yesterday after-
noon, bihiging us news from Quebec to the 28th ult.
The all-absorbing topic was the approaching visit of
the Prince of Wales, who was daily expected at Hali-
fax, where great preparations had been made for his
reception. The streets were spanned by at least fifty
triumphal arches. "There is a saying," says a corre-
spondent of the leading journal, "that a genuine Eng-
lish cheer, like English porter, can never be got out of
Britain. The provinces and Canada will prove the
exception to this rule. I have been through the greater
part of Canada; and the whole land, from Halifax to
Lake Huron, and almost from Labrador to Lake Erie,
resounds only with preparatiOns for the Prip.ce's visit.
You can't take up a paper without finding it full of
acrostics on his name, anecdotes of his childhood, or
predictions of a future glory which shall equal that of
his Royal mother, whose name, be it said, is never men-

tioned, either here or in the United States, but in such
terms of reverence and admiration as an Englishman
feels proud and glad to hear." A despatch from Toronto
says: —" Various Indian tribes will meet the Prince of
Wales at Queenstown:" On the 27th let., the number
of passengers Who visited the Great Eastern amounted
to 18,000. She was expected to visit Hampton Roads
on the. 29th, and to proceed to Annapolis the following
day to coal.

In the general news of the day, a very curious inci- I
dent which occurred at the Lambeth police-office will
be found referred to. It would appear that the youth
committed for the Walworth murder had another
woman in his toils, and to whom he had promised
marriage. The reputed murderer was brought before
the magistrates yesterday, and the female in question,
who is said to .be very respectable, and who came up
from Staffordshire for the purpose, was present during
the enquiry. She stated the prisoner made her acquaint-
ance some time ago, and when she saw his name in the
newspapers, she brought up his photograph, and showed
it to the police, who said he was the mart, and.thatit was
an excellent likeness. She was greatly agitated during
the time that some letters were read which the prisoner
had addressed to Mary Ann Streeter, in which she was
persistently urged to insure her life, and said that all of
them, except two, were exactly of a similar nature to
letters he had addressed to her.
On Monday a very painful investigation was coni
menced at the Bow-street police-court, London. A late
keeper in the Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum was charged
with having brutally ill-treated an inmate named Swift,
thereby occasioning his death. The man was found in
a padded room dead, but warm, and on a post-mrtent
examination it appeared that his breast bone and eleven
of his ribs were broken. An insane inmate named Clarke
states that he was a witness to the grossest violence by
the prisoner and another keeper towards the deceased ;
that they forced him into the room, knocked him down,
and kicked him twice savagely while he was down. At
the examination, a question was raised as to the eligi-
bility of a lunatic to give evidence. The magistrate, Mr.
Henry, having subjected the person in question to a pre-
liminary investigation, decided in favour of his compe-
tency, and the witness then told an apparently straight-
forward story. The enquiry stands adjourned.
The Registrar-General has issued his quarterly return,
which, as usual, is fall of suggestive facts and interest-
ing information. Prom this it appears that the mar-
riages in the first quarter of this year were not quite
so numerous as they were in the same quarter of 1859,
but exceeded those of any corresponding period in the
eleven years 1848-58 ; the marriage-rate--namely, the
proportion of persons married to the then existing
'population, was also slightly above the average for the
quarter. The births in the second quarter (that ended
June 30th) were fewer than in the same quarter of last
year, and were also fewer than they would have been
if the average spring birth rate had been maintained.
The deaths exhibit, in no faint characters, the effects of
an ungenial season, and the rate of mortality was
higher, with only two exceptions, than in any corres-
ponding- quarter of the previous ten years. Liverpool, we
rejoice to state, was never more healthy than it has been
for some time back, and is at present.