The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1861-01-08 00:00:00

3IARITIME EXTRACTS.

The North Briton (rmss), arrived hreirevEtaor-rayL,lTeafnturaorrytl7a.nd
The Cordelia,
22. from Demerara, arrived here to-day, after
Dec.Th
being ashore at Loch Ryan.
The West India mail steamer Shannon was spoken Jan. 4, at
four p.m., disabled, twenty-five miles south-west of Scilly,
the Turin (ss), arrived here.
The Jessie Beazley, arrived here yesterday, struck on a coral
reef in Gaspar Straits Oct. 7, north-east of Bain Island, but got
off in about sixteen hours by shifting cargo, cables, guns, &e.,
aft, with loss of stream anchor, two kedges, and about thirty

SEWEIVERr. r!.l`?., &c.
iooKE,

-SUCCESSOR TO
HAUSBTJRG,

Having completed the selection of his Stock for the 4etii6\ in
which will be foUnd lin the, greatest novelties l felaitm and
design, solicits` an inspection of the same, comprising an
extensive collection of • •
• DIA.WM) AND GESI WORK.
144 N ON AND OTHER JEWELLERY
of the very best quality.
SILVER AND PLATED GOODS,
of the newest styles and designs, from the irSt maiatt.
ENGLISH WATCHES) .

combining all the latest imprcetermints, and Veer' atttettl to
perform with the greater-It a'cedrhey.
- GENEVA WATCHES, -
from the first mannfacturers.

W. Ti. T. would direct attthitioia foringi cothiCtioniviebthc!

WHOLESALE AND ,3LANUFACTITRINW **.A.Art.4lEB, .
itnd likewise to the fdc't of his tidtkill• Ali his payments for
441-011-11 t cAsll-,

by IS hieb Ive 4s Onsbted and determined to submit his goods at
• 'sum* kObBRATT PRICES
that no other house can offer such advantageous terms.

OLD POSTOFFICE-BUILDINGSN
Wyk. POW,-

CHANDELIERS. LAMPS, &C.

W•

bolkE,

t. 11AUSBURG,

rtetOttrully invites attention to the extensve STOCK of
CHANDELIERS,
Of Glass and Metal ;
LANTERNS, BRACKETS, LUSTREgy
of all deseriptionn
PATENT VESTIBULE :ANI3 bnitß LAMPS,

INCLUDir THE C.ELEBRA.TED AUREOLE LAMP.
Pnbtsi tialito and Private Residences fitted for Gas.
kihrienced Gasfitters employed on the Premises, and all
kindt of repairs carefully attended to in the Manufactory,
24, cieuRCII;•STREET.

Cropy's Foreign Refined COLZA. oir, if4ptiq2lly, iadpted
for the Aureole Lamps.

A age Assortment of
Tii3LE AND POCKET CUTLERY,

at the lowest Prices.
' The Stock of

PAPIER MACII GOODS
Includes a very extensive assortment of;Articles selected from
the productions of the. most, eminent Manufacturer hi the
Kingdom, ensuring the greatest durat.ilith biquitite Cash,
&c.

r)L1) roATOTicE-tutLiiaus,

LivEl r,oOL.

PRESENTS POR CHRiSTItiA!!, tell THE NEW YEAR,

W. T 0K E,

SUCCESSOR TO
F. L. HAUSBURG,

In presenting the usual address at this Season, begs to return
his best thanks for tho kind and liberal patronage conferred
up'on him during the past.year.
To his extensive and unrivalled Collection '6f

BRITIBII :AND VORErGN MANUFACTURES

baS been added every
tN-GhiSH AND FOREIGN NOVELTY,
And the greatest care has been exercised in the SELECTION
of the GOODS, to EECUILE THE BEST QUALITY at the very
Lowest Prices.
Especial attention is requested to the large Assortment of
FANCY ARTICLES)
including.
PARISIAN NOVELTIES; FMS, CASEETS,

150t*ENIRS, BOUQUET HOLDERS,

and the Na\' S;ryr.i: of
HEAD ORNAMENT
in the greatest variety.
AN EXTENSIVE STOCX

FRENCH DECORATED CHINA,
ALABASTER FIGURES,
PARIAN DITTO.
A Splendid STOCK of

BOHEMIAN, ENGLISH, AND FRENCH GLASS VASES;
LUSTRES,.&c.
The undqualltd Stock of
DRESSING--CASES, DESKS, WORK-BOXES,

BAGATELLE TABLES, ./tr,..;

manufactured on the premises; trill befaiind Complete in
branches.
The assortment of

NGLISH AND-FOREIGN TOYS, GAMES,
DISSECTIONS, &c.,
is replete with every novelty, and includes a great variety of
ORNAMENTS FOR CHRISTMAS TREES.

W. H. TOOKE hopes, by his unceasing personal attention,
to secure the continuance of that cOnfieen'r:e lad slipport
which have hitherto been so khidly extended to him.

OLD POSTOFFICE-BUILDINGS,

LIVERPOOL.

ENLARGEMENT OF PREMISES.

F. AV . P R OM 0 L I,

30 KtiD 32, CHIJRCJI-STRRtT,

(OPPOSITE I"AIiKER-STREET,)

LIVERPOOL,,

Flatters himself that his many Lind 'friends and patrons will
be glad to learn that. having added to his own the extensive
and commodious premises lately in the occupation of Messrs.
\Vintner and Smith, he has been enabled to INCREASE HIS
LARGE STOCK with a further splendid Assortment of

i*ItIWS THE DAY.

The Directors of th Bank -of England held.. a
484'1 'ed't :eiterdity morning, and it deter-
mined to increase the rate of discount.
Shortly Ater t''‘Velve o'clock it was announced
that the'rate of discount had been raised to seven
per cent. On this,occasion at all events, it can-.
not. :well be pretended that such. a step was
expected. It is said that the Directors in ittloptt'
ing it, were infittenttd thie3ty a t o unfairour7
:able thaileter ot the ace-omits froth Atherica, and
y .01.6 straitened position of the Bank of France.
The present arrival from the United States
puts us in • posiessiOn of perhaps the most im-
portant intelligence respecting the fate and for-
tunes of the American Union which has itliched.
Europe. &tiring the past benthry. The
of secession which li`a§ l3eeti tlioWn by Smith
Caron'ta is elq'aett to be follo*ed in dne and
related 'order. by the :whore of the ,scotton
states. The President elect, it Is annonnebdi
will_ not.._ hesitate to--7ilaft ftrt.4.,, when and
where :,refiuiredb' to Compel obedience to the
the 'auditions of the Union, and the Southern

.limbs-of the Confederation hie already begun to
make preparation, for repelling force by fOrce.
We have given elsewhere copious e±trafts froin
the American po.pelt, eihibitiiig• the actual posi-
tien id, the gteat political stuestiOn at- present
agitating the minds and heartS of our 4ans-
atlantic brethren; and it With ne SthalllPain;
though 'not With Very great .itlrPtise, that we
have to P.426itipatiy these extracts with an account
of the circumstances attending the disclosure of
some of the most astounding public frauds of
-modern times, committed by parties in the con-
fidence and in the -employe of the Vnited
.
States Go/emitted', - •

The i;141/ttgl gazette publishes a tabular
statement of the numbers and strengths of the
Austrian forces in Venetia, from which it appears
that these forces comprise 183,000 infantry, 52
batteries of field artillery, 16,000 engineers; acid
.3,000 eavalit, indepelidintlitr of the garrisons of
ti tdrit'eSses, and crews of the men of war.
There is also a reserve force. of 35,000 men in the
neighbourhood of Trieste and along the coast of
IStria and:Dalmatia, whose head-quarters are-- at
Trieste... Another corps of 35,000 men, WhOse head:-
quarters are at Gran"; are distributed through-
out Styria:, Illyria, and Carinthia: The above
CoMprises a tolerably strong muster roll; and an
assailing army will do well to pattse Were pro-
voking an encounter With alien iioolist
In common With tint contemporaries, we an-
notthcea that the new King of Prussia was to
reign under the title of Frederick William V.
This, it now appears;WaS-an-errer.- His Majesty
will reign us William I.; and it is under that
title that he received the oaths of allegianoe of
his Minister's'on the 2nd instant. A telegram in
our present impression informs its that " political
manifestations" are deferred till after the finieral
of the late Iking, which WEIS td take place on
SundaYi- and alinolinees that important changes
in the foreign policy of Prussia-are likely to take
place in the course of the month following.
There has been a discussion in. the Dresden
Chambers on the Schleswig Holstein questidzi, in
the course of Which it was ehOited that there was
a general -feeling throughout Germany that .the
leadership of Prussia in this matter will be sup-
_

ported on all sides at the Federal Diet, and that
all the federal governments are not only ready to
act in accord with Prussia; but even if necessary
to take the field. Does this refer to the change
which is expected to take place in the policy of
Prussia ?
The Swiss Minister writes from Paris to his
compatriots to say, that it
,is the prevailing
opinion in official quarters in that city that peace
will be maintained; and the Pafrie informs us
that the armistice at Gaeta will; when concluded,
be on'a new basis:

, The latest information on the subject of the
British Garibaldian Legion is supplied by the
Naples correspondent of the Herald, who says—
" There is at present a court of inquiry sitting for
the purpose of reporting upon an accusation
brought against Captain Styles, who was sent to
England, at the recommendation of Colonel Dunn,
in Whose regiment he Was . a lieutenant, for the
purpose of raising a volunteer corps—for defalca-
tions to a very large extent. Captain Styles's
name—for I must still call him so—is not Styles
but Stiegel. It appears that he entered the Fusi-
leer Guards under the name of Schmidt at the
close of the Crimean war, and that he was not
entitled to the medals he wore, Colonel
Arbuthnott, his commanding officer, denounces
him as a deserter. Styles was arrested, but his
guard allowed him to escape. A young man of
that name, .who passed himself as his brother
j and was appointed as a lieutenant in the regi-
ment, has also been arrested and confined in the
Castel Nuovo. When the court makes its report,
I shall send you full particulars!' The foregoing
is given entirely ou the responsibility of the
writer of the paragraph. It is to be hoped that,
as the information is the latest, so it will also be
the last intelligence of the same description that
we shall be called upon to record regarding this
unfortunate body of men.
We learn from the Northern Whig, of yester-
day, that one of the most appalling murders that
ever filled the annals of crime in Ireland has just
been perpetrated. Two brothers, named James
and Robert Shaw, who resided entirely by them-
selves on a farm in the Barony of Trough, about
four miles from the town of Monaghan and two
from Glassborough, were found by a person, who
had some business to transact with them, on Fri-
day last, about two o'clock iu the afternoon, lying
across the threshold of their own door, shot dead.
So close was the weapon the murderer used,
that the skulls were completely blown out,
and looked as if they had been shattered
with a hatchet. The residence of these men
is in a most peaceable and populous district. At
present it is difficult to arrive at any cause for
the perpetration of the horrid crime. A post-
mortem examination of the bodies was made by
Mr. Young, of Monaghan, assisted by Dr.
Douglas, of Glassborough. These gentlemen are
of opinion that there must have been at least
four persons engaged iu'the murder, as there were
both bullet and shot wounds. Two men are in
custody, and have been remanded until an ad-
journed meeting of the jury, who were to meet
yesterday.
A shocking occurrence took place at Astley's
Royal Amphitheatre, yesterday morning. At
about eight o'clock, three of the lions in the
menagerie connected with this establishment
broke loose, and made their escape into the,y4d.
Before they could be secured, one of j them, it is
stated, seized one of the keepers, and frightfully
lacerated him about the head—so much so that
his life is considered to be in danger.
The Shipping Gazette says there is an expec-
tation of a government loan of £10,000,000 being
required, but that there is nothing known upon the
subject; which is quite true.
No intelligence has been' received at the
Admiralty as to the reported loss of gunboats on
the coast of China.
The number of wrecks reported in December
was 186, and the total number for the past year
is 1,811.
It is a curious fact respecting the various rail-
way accidents which we have had to record within
the last day or two, that not one has been a col-
lision. In all cases in which the cause is already
known the fracture of iron—either of axle or tire,
has been the cause, and in all the others, the car-
riage or carriages have left the line, whether
from defects in the pernianent way or rolling.
stock remains yet to be ascertained. It will be
interesting in a scientific point of view to find out
whether or not the extreme cold we have recently
experienced may not, by exercising an injurious
influence on the metal, have had some share in
causing these defects.