The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-07-06 00:00:00

when he was attacked at Naples, was also struck by
the assailants, and that his condition is very serious.
The Constitutionnel of yesterday states that it is an-
nounced in one of the Italian journals, that S. Bertaui,
of Genoa, was on the point of negotiating a loan of
forty-five millions of francs with the house of Bellin-
zaghi of that city, on behalf of the Sicilian government,
to be repayable by means of a lottery. The Cunstitu-
tionnel adds that " Mazzini beyond all question is in
Sicily. Mardini, Mario, and the celebrated Miss
Withely (obviously your fair townswoman Miss Whitty)
have preceded him."
On the subject of Sicilian affairs, the Journal des
Debats says no one now attaches any importance to the
presence of Mazziui in Sicily, since the quarrel between
Garibaldi and M. de Torrearsa has been settled. It
adds that Garibaldi has positively convened the Sicilian
electors for the 18th of this month, with the view of
voting for the annexation to Piedmont, and does not
intend to submit the question to the Sicilian Parliament'
a course which that journal approves, for reasons ,
which it gives.
At Naples, it appears that M. Brenier is still bestir-
ring himself to obtain reforms and the Sardinian alliance,
whilst, at Turin, M. de Talleyrand-Perigord is applying
all the pressure he can to induce the Cabinet of Victor
Emmanuel to accept the overtures for a reconciliation
which have been made to it. These endeavours, joined
to the remonstrances which have been made by Russia
and Prussia, against any act of Piedmont which could
imply the least complicity with Garibaldi, render more
than difficult the position of King Victor Emmanuel and
of his Government. Some of the French journals, it is
observed, throw doubts on the absolute refusal of the
alliance by Piedmont, but, at all events, conditions are
interposed by the latter to its acceptance, which are
equivalent to refusal.. For example, the Neapolitan
Government would have been asked not only to recognise
the annexation of the Romagnas, but eventually other por-
tions of the remaining possessions of the Holy See—a de-
mand with which, looking to the closeness of the relations
which exist between Naples and Rome, it would have
been impossible to comply on any other understanding
than that of violating the engagement at the first oppor-
tunity. Naples, meanwhile, seems to have resumed
its state of uncomfortable tranquility, the inhabitants
exhibiting the same cold and contemptuous attitude
with respect to the "concessions." It appears from a
statement in the Gazette of Turin, that a commencement
has been made in acting on the general amnesty with
which the offer of the new, or rather of the old, Consti-
tution was accompanied, for the Neapolitan Legation at
that city has been authorised to deliver passports to all
Neapolitan subjects who apply for them, military
deserters only excepted, who are, however, not very
likely to make any such demand. There is still a talk,
also, at Turin, of the approaching arrival of an Ambas-
sador-Extraoudinary from Naples, charged with the duty
of recommending and enforcing the alliance proposed
between the two Governments. One account states that
the fun ctionary has arrived.
On the subject of the Baden meeting the Independance
Beige feels itself called upon to contradict a variety of
rumours which have been propagated in certain German
journals regarding the reconciliation alleged to have
been brought about by that meeting, between Prussia
and the other states of the Confederation, whose
policy had, up to that moment, been iu diametrical
opposition to hers. The above journal states that
the view which it has taken of this matter is completely
borne out by a recent article in the Prussian Gazette.
This official organ of the Prussian Government declares
very plainly " that Prussia will never consent to the
privileges which are newly arrogated by the Diet, to
the exercise of a policy at variance with the interests of
the peoples and princes of Germany ; that she will not
withdraw from this position as respects the question of
Schleswig Holstein; that she will persevere in pursuing a
reasonable reform of her military Federal Constitution ;
that she intends to maintain and develop within herself
the constitutional system, and that she has no desire to
oppose herself in any way to the national tendencies of
the German people"—all which declarations are, as is
well remarked by the Independance, entirely at variance
with the programme of the petty states, which desire,
above all, the curbing of the national movement, and
the abandonment of the constitutional system. But
they affora also a further proof—that, under her present
ruler, Prussia is at length determined to assume her
proper place, and to wear her honours fitly, in all future
European complications.
As was to be expected, the Madrid papers comment,
with unmeasured severity, on the retractations of the
Count de Montemolin and his brother. This condemna-
tion is shared even by members of the Legitimist party
in Spain, "whose ancient Castilian honour " is roused
to indignation at the example of a breach of faith so
monstrous. Thus speaks their organ. " The sons of
Don Carlos are at present only blind instruments,
who minister, by their shameful conduct, to
the interests of the bitter enemies of their race,
without suspecting, perhaps, the miserable part they are
playing. Everything may be expected, as everything
may be feared, of men placed in the position which they
at present occupy." The ministerial journal, La Cor-
respondencia, remarks that "It is possible that
the Infants may have listened to the opinion of eminent
lawyers ; but one thing is certain, they have not taken
counsel With men of honour." To which it may be
added, that another thing is also certain,-that the Carlist
party -in Spain is, from henceforth, dissolved.