The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-12-20 00:00:00

ITALY.

Trnirr, Dec. 18.
There is no truth in the statengunt contained in
some Italian journals that .Austria; had sent to
the Sardinian Government a list of names in con-
nection with the conspiracies which are being
organised in Italy for the purpose of encovrag,ing
the agitation in Hungary.

WAR IN THE SPRING.
Tho correspondent of the Debats at Turin says
that General Benedek has informed his troops
that they must be prepared for war in the spring,
and that it is at Mantua he means to crush Gari-
baldi and his adherents.
The Turin Gazette (a very moderate joarnal)
likewise says that the Venetian question must be
settled, and no ministry could stand for x singla
day which gave up Venice.

THE THRONE OF HUNGARY.
The Hungarians in Paris are openly promising
the throne of Hungary to Prince Napoleon.
The Hungarian Committee at Pestle are is
communication with St. Petersburg, and have
offered the crown of St. Stephen to Prince
Constantine.

A pamphlet is about to appear in Paris which
is said to have received the sanction of Prince
Napoleon. The writer advocates the dismember-
ment of the Austrian Empire.

INSURRECTION IN PORTUGAL.
MADRID, Dec. 18.
Disastrous insurrections have taken place in
Portugal.

SWEDEN.
STOCKHOLM, Dec. 18.

The Dowager Queen of Sweden, widow of
Bernadotte, died yesterday evening. It is men-
tioned as a singular incident, that her Majesty
was about to visit the theatre to witness the
performance of Calderon's play " Life is a
Dream."

THE EAST.

CONSTANTINOPLE, Dec. 12.

The Sardinian ships which were stopped at
Sulina have been released, and will take their
cargoes of munitions back to Genoa.
The Sultan has commenced retrenchments in
the expenses of the palace.
News from Podgoritza states that a conflict
had taken place between the Turks and the
Montenegrins.
The officials of the new Roumelian commission'
have been nominated.
The principalities are tranquil.
The Viceroy of Egypt will shortly proceed to.
Mecca.

THE DANUBIAN PROVINCES.
JASSY, Dee. 18.
It is denied here that the Moldo-Waachian
Government participates in the Hungarian. move-
ment.

THE AUSTRIAN CONFERENCE.
GRAN, Dec. 18.
The conference has been definitively closed,
after having lasted four hours and a half.
Count Darcoczy censured the electoral law of
1848, and spoke against the privileges of the
nobility as established by that law. He also
advocated equal rights for everybody. Finally
it was unanimously resolved to request the
Emperor to grant the electoral law of 1848..
The Primate, in his closing speech, expressed
the hope of an early convocation of the Diet, sad
exhorted the nation to union and confidence.
A banquet afterwards took place in the Pri-
mate's palace, when speeches of a conciliatory
character were delivered. The healths of the
Hungarian and other Councillors of State were
drunk amidst loud and enthusiastic cheering.

CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN

MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, Dee. 19.

The Pera, with- the above mails, has arrived.
She brings 118 passengers, £2,322 in specie, and
a large cargo, including raw silk, value upwards
of £200,000.
The British barque Washington, of Shields,
homeward bound from Odessa with wheat, foun-
dered on the 10th instant. The ship papers only
were saved. The master and crew were taken on
board the Pera and landed at Gibraltar.
On the 11th instant the Pera passed the
steamer Royal Bride, of Bristol, hove to in a gale
of wind, and on the 13th a man-of-war, supposed
to be the St.. Jean d'Acre, three or four days from
Malta. She also observed several vessels with
topmasts gone, and on the lath passed her
Majesty's ship Mersey coming out of Lisbon.
Gibraltar freights and exchanges were un-
altered.

AMERICA.
LONDONDERRY, Dec. 19.
The Nova Scotian, from Portland (Maine), on
the Bth, has arrived ; and landed all mails. The
City of Manchester and the Saxonia had arrived
out. The President's message was considered
weak and unsatisfactory, both by North and
South. The President had announced his deter-
mination to send no more troops to the
Charleston Forth; and stated that everything
would be done on his part to avoid a collision.
The Breckenridge members of the Virginia
Electoral College had resigned, and allowed the
whole State vote to go for Bell and Everett. The
powder magazine of a Spanish frigate had ex-
ploded off Brooklyn ; three persons killed and
twelve wounded. The Georgia Senate had
rejected a bill calling a convention of the
Southern States. This was received as an indica-
tion that Georgia would recede.
COMMERCIAL.

NEW YORK, Dec. 7th, Evening.—Rates of dis-
count on current money advancing, owing to the
depreciation of Stocks; latter opened lower, but
closed firmer. Illinois Central Scrip, 521; Net
York Central, 691 ; Erie, 24. The Cotton mark et
dull and unsettled ; sales, 600 bales middling
Uplands at 91e. Flour, Corn, and Wheat, de-
clining. Sugars and freights unchanged..

LOSS, OF THE STEAMER CONNAUGHT.
The Board of Trade] have made their official
report with regard to the suggestions which
arose out of the official inquiry. The Board
express the opinion that it would be inexpedient
to establish any supervision by Government
officers of steamers during their construction. As
to the examination of masters and mates con-
nected with the steam-engine, the Board say it
could not be made compuloory without the
vinter-
ference of the Legislature; but a system of olun-
tary examination has been for some time in
operation. The question whether engineers
should be compelled to pass an examination and
to obtain certificates from the Board of Trade it;
one for the Legislature, and the Board say they
are not in a position to offer any opinion upon it.

Sir George Carroll, one of the aldermen of the city of
London, died yesterday morning.
The weather in London has changed to a seasonable
frost.
The Duke of Bedford is seriously ill. Lord John
Russell and other members of the family are at
Woburn.
Mr. Schneider, connected with the firm of Mortimer
and Co., was under hamination at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy yesterday.

The following appeared in our later editions of
yesterday
FREIGHTS AT BOMBAY.
BOMBAY, Nov. 26.—There has been an important
rise of fully 10s. per ton. the quotations being £2 17s. 6d.
to London, and £3 2s. 6d. for L iverpool.

Lord Stanhope was returned for South Notts yesterday
without opposition.
The Bombay mail, via Marseilles, will be delivered
morning. in London to-morrow (Thursday)