The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-04-26 00:00:00

BOARD OF TRADE RETURNS.

Yesterday morning were issued by the Board of Trade
returns for the month and three months ending March
31, 1860. We subjoin a statement of the total declared
value of the exports of British and Irish produce and
manufactures during the month and three months,
including only the " enumerated" articles.—
For the month. For the three months.
£8,340,399 £21,159,866
10,529,540 .. 28,512,611
9,621,223 .. 28,394,581

1858
1859
1860

Including the "unenunierated articles," the aggre.
gate exports stand thus : _

1858.
1859.
1860.

For the month. For the three months.
L 9,000,274 .. £23,515,290
11,313,228 .. 30,520,794
10,393,470 .. 30,481,907

THE ARMY ESTIMATES.

The revised army estimates for the year from Apri

1860, to March 31: 1861, have been issued

The total of the land forces fur 1860-61 is 145,269 ;
number already voted, 143,362; leaving to be voted in
1860-61, 1,907.

The following sums are required for the service of
1860-61:—Land forces, pay and allowances, £4,736,701;
miscellaneous charges, £620,285 ; embodied militia,
£320,000 ; volunteer corps, £68,000 ; departments
of the Secretary of State and of the General Com-
manding in Chief, £196,224; manufacturing establish-
ments, military store-keepers, barrack-masters, &c.,
£374,005 ; wages of artificers, labourers, &c.,
£865,234 ; clothing and necessaries, £324,000 ;
provisions, forage, fuel, barrack furniture, bedding, &c.,
£1,278,377 ; warlike stores for laud and sea service,
£2,088,088; fortifications, £645,355; civil buildings,
£206,500; barracks, £707,607: educational and scientific
branches, £277,547; the total for the effective services
being £12,737,923. The amount already voted for
1860-61 is £3,851,000 ; so that the amount required to
be voted for 1860-61 is £8,856,923.

For the non-effective services the estimates are as
follow :—Rewards for military service, £25,390; pay of
general officers, £75,660 ; pay of reduced and retired
officers, £492,357; widows' pensions and compassionate
allowances, £184,523; pensions and allowances to
wounded officers, £41,123 ; in-pension, £30,638 ;
out-pension, £144,895; superannuation allowances,
£136,837; the total for the non-effective services
being £2,135,623, no portion of which has been yet
voted.

The total for effective and non-effective services is
X 14,842,546, the amount voted for 1859-GO having been
£12,859,297, showing an increase in some departments
of £2,540,427, and a decrease in others 0f£557,178, thh
net increase being £1,983,249. The amount already
voted, 1860-1, is £3,851,000 ; so that the amount re-
quired to be voted for 1860-1, is £10,991,546,

The modifications which the Emperor of Austria has
just signified his intention of introducing into the
administrative organisation of Hungary is declared by
the Debuts to be more apparent than real, and by no
means calculated to satisfy the people of that country.
Our contemporary even goes the length of expressing
an opinion that the dis9pointment of their hopes may
lead to additional irritation aniQug the Hungarians.

DEATH FROM CH ING. perry, somewhat
advanced in years, and who resided at Rockinghm-
street, Sheffield, died suddenly the other night under
circumstances of a very painful character. He was
getting his supper,, and while in the act of masticating
a piece of meat, a portion of it got fast in his throat.
A surgeon was sent for, but all attempts to relieve the
poor fellow were unsuccessful, and he died shortly
afterwards.

A picture of the «Holy Family," by Sebastian del
Piombo, which has just been sold by auction at the
public sale-rooms in the Rue Drouct, was put lip at
2,000 f., and knocked down at 40,000 f. This pram,
which is painted on cedarwood, represents St. Joseph,
the Virgin, the Infant Jesus, and St. John. It was
recently discovered by a young man in an old convent
at Toledo.

Ma. BRIGHT AND THE BENICIA Bor.—The West-
moreland Gazette, remarking on a comparison made by
Mr. Bernal Osborne, of Mr. Bright with the Benicia
Boy, says, "The Comparison is not fair to the ' Benicia
Boy.' That personage, from all that is known of him,
is not chargeable with Mr. Bright's propensity to be
always flooring somebody or other. Although a pro-
fessed pugilist he has a better character for being
unaggressive and inoffensive in his general bearing than
the professed man of peace. There are several points
in which the comparison to Mr. John Bright is unfair
to Mr. John Heenan. The American athlete is patrio-
tic in his way, but the English political pugilist is as
fulsome in his praise of American institutions as he is
bitter againt those of his own country. The bruiser in
buff freely perils his own skin in a fair fight with
a chosen antagonist ; the tongue-doughty champion
in ' drab serves his political ends at safe distance
from personal responsibility, by maligning whole
classes, and imperilling, as far as his efforts go,
the very stability of the country. In one instance
only, and that in an affair that happened after Mr.
Osborne's speech, can the fistk> hero be fairly likened to
Mr. Bright, and that was when ma44enod with 'punish-
ment' and half-blinded he rushed from his place and hit
and kicked indiscriminately. This was very like that
mad rush which the Birmingham Boy' made last week,
when blind with rage and punishment he struck foal at
the newspaper press, and accused the journalists who
opposed him of a corrupt connection with a political
party in France. But, upon tho whole, we must protost
against Mr. Bernal Osborne's comparison as a libel upon
the Benicia Boy.' "
Tut MorrrAuP., C4.sr.—The Tribunal Criminal and
Civil of Bologna has just beep occupied with the trial of
Father Feletti, of the Order of St. Dorninie, Inquisitor
of the Holy Office at Bologna (who, it may be
remembered, was arrested some time ago, on the
charge of having carried off by force the child of
the Jewish couple Mortara). The reverend father,
in answer to the charge, represented that in
" sequestrating the child (so he designated the
abduction) he had only obeyed the orders of the
Supreme Holy OWce at Rome, whose agent he was, and
could not, therefore, be held personally responsible. In
consequence of this defence, the court endeavoured to
ascertain whether orders really had been sent tq Feletti
from the Inquisition at Rome ; and also who had cora-
mu.nicated to the Inquisitions the alleged fact of the
baptism of the child Mortara, on which those orders
were based. It further examined the question whether,
supposing the child to have been baptised, the right
existed of taking him from his parents in order to bring
him up as a Roman Catholic; and lastly, whether
the participation of Fpletti in the affair brought
him !within the jurisdiction of the law. The public
prosecutor deman&d that Feletti should be condemned
to the penalties set forth in Arts. 133 and 200 of the
Penal Edict of 1832, against magistrates who make an
abusive use of their power by arbitrarily arresting and
detaining any person ; such penalties being from one to
three years' imprisonment, or even clout& in the event
of the case being an aggravated one ; also the payment
of damages and costs. The tribunal, however, acquitted
the rev. defendant.

THE EXECUTION OF GENERAL ORTEGA.,..-11, John
Lemoinne writes in the Debats :—" General Ortega, the
apparent chief of the insurrection which has just failed
in Spain, has been shot ; he has paid the penalty
of his want of success. This execution was brought
about quickly, before the public voice had had time
to raise itself in behalf of mercy. If the Spanish
government thought to strengthen itself by this act of
pitiless justice, we beAeye that it has deceived itself ;
and if we are forced to admit that it was only exer'
rising a right in condemning, we believe that it id \7911._
have acted according to its conscience as well as
humanely in pardoning. That pardon would not
have been difficult to Wain from the Queen herself.
Queen Isabella is not cruel. The severity which has
been displayed can, then, only be attributed to rea-
sons of state. Now the public conscience, while
forced to admit the legality of this sentence of
death, asks itself at the same time by whom it is
applied. It cannot forget that the head of the Spanish
ministry only arrived at power by military revolt like
that which General Ortega has just attempted, and that
his very success should have made him commiserate, to
some extent, the failure of the unhappy man who had
followed his example. It cannot any more forget that
the general whose duty it was to countersign
the sentence and see it carried out, is the
General Dulce who, in 1854, when commanding the
cavalry in the Queen's name, went secretly and
delivered it up to General O'Donnell, and marched with
his against the Queen, whose ministers they have
become. We are well aware of the difference which
there is between the attempt of General O'Donnell and
that of General Ortega ; the one succeeded and the
othor failed, But this principle of judging atecoidiug
to the event has been here too literally applied to be of
salutary example, and in the present case, cannot
but excite sentiments of reprobation. The men who
have just put Ortega to death only omitted one thing,
and that was to shoot him, for the sake of example, on
the field of Vicalvaro."

LONDON DIOCESAN HOME IVlissioN.--10n Monday
afternoon a public meeting of the friends of this mission,
which Awes its origin to the present Bishop of London,
was held in St. James's Hall, under the presidency of
his lordship, who waa scPPorted by the Earl of Car-
narvon, the Bishop of Oxford, gr. Blaney, g,E., Arch-
deacon Sinclair, Canon Miller, and other gentlemen. The
Rev. Mr. Gell, the bishop's chaplain, read the report,
which stated the most encouraging results. The bishop, in
speaking on the subject, urged the necessity of promoting
the extension of the parochial system, remarking that
between . the parochial system and the missionary
system there was no antagonism. He adverted to the
difficult task which the missionaries had to discharge,
observing that they bad not only to deal with the
ignorant and degraded, but with apute, intelligent,
mechanical men, who knew all the stock arguments
that were to be urged against revelation,—men who
were better read in works of that kind than even
clergymen themselves, who had never felt it necessary to
make themselves acquainted with them. If, therefore,
in sending forth missionaries to heathen lands they
did well to look ont for intelligent men, so, he was
quite sure, they required men of a peculiar stamp to
do the work of missionary agency in this metropolis.
He believed that in this, as in other matters, the Church
of England was learning to accommodate itself to the
altered circumstances of the times. In fact, if there
in
thisto aeco
varyingm nio
age.tite itf
were no other reason for recommending this Diocesan
Mission, there was this, that sue Church of England
to es vaenr yelasticvarying
church,
I rcll' and ablecircumstance
Earl of Carnarvon, in moving the adoption of the
report, while commending the parochial system, strongly
advocated the missionary scheme, which had been called
in as the handmaid of the church, with the full appro-
bation and authority both of the bishop and the parochial
clergy. The Bishop of Oxford next addressed the meeting,
and °welt with nmeh eloquence on the peculiar &erec-
tdeergee th
ic aoef the
Apostolic m et
Spirito poli io
of
preaching
demandingreaehlng
to the multitudes
in an especial
wherever they might be found assembled. Resolutions
in furtherance of the objects of the meeting were then
passed, and thanks having been given to the Bishop of
9Lpoenrcl4otinonfsorothf
tehe Homegrefltinriri
se:itont,aaknend
for his
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kinduesi a't+l the
ip
pregidinc, on the present occasions the meeting broke up.
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