The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-09-13 00:00:00

Countess of Derby and Lady Emma Stanley arrived at
the family residence in St. James's-square, from Knows-
ley, The nuptials of Lady Emma and Colonel the Hon.
W. P. IZ. C. Talbot, brother of the Earl of Shrewsbury
and Talbot, are to be celebrated at Knowsley on the 4th
proximo. •

The coroner' for the North Cheshire district held his
adjourned inquiry on Tuesday last, into the death of
Mary Anne Howard, of Stockport. The deceased was

fifty-six years of age, her husband is seventy-six. The
domestic habits of the wife were lamentably evil,

and the husband must have beeu a most miserable
man. On the night previous to the death of the
woman, she was drunk ; she came into the house late

at night, and immediately turned out her daughter.
The daughter remained outside on the doorstep, till
three o'clock in the morning. In the morning deceased

was found on her bed, her head battered in, and her
throat cut. A bloody axe was found in the coalhole, and
a bloody knife near the dead woman. No one had been
in the house but the old man, and the jury, without any
hesitation, pronounced him guilty of the wilful murder
of his wife.

There is news of the highest importance from Italy,

At the solicitation of a deputation of the inhabitants of
Umbria and the Marches, Victor Emmanuel has accepted
the offer of their Protector ; and a horrible massacre, by
the mercenaries of Laruoriciere, of the inhabitants of
Fossombrone, a town in the delegation of Urbino,
after a victory obtained over them by dint of overpowering
numbers, has afforded him, as King of Italy, a pretext
which can scarcely be considered otherwise than j ustifiable,
for entering the Papal territories at the head of his troops.
The telegraph has at the same time brought us the pro-
clamation which His Majesty has addressed to his army,
on taking this important, but not unexpected step, in
which he tells his impatient soldiers that the objects of
their mission are " To establish civil order in the towns
desolated by misrule, and to give to the people the
liberty of expressing their own wishes ;" proclaims
his intention to be to " rid central Italy of one
continual trouble and discord," and concludes by
declaring that his " one ambition is to establish the
principles of moral order in Italy, and to preserve
Europe from the continual dangers of revolution and
war." It cannot but be perceived that some of the
expressions used by his Majesty in this address savour
slightly of the " ideal ; " but the cause in which he has
again drawn his sword is so noble, the necessity for
interference in some shape or other had become so
urgent, and the solution of the question—what is to be
done with the " outlying" possessions of the Holy See ?
has become in every way so desirable, that it is a positive
relief to learn that the Rubicon has at length been
passed, and that the sword will not be returned to the
scabbard till the pacification of central Italy shall have
been completed.
Besides (and it is a consideration of the last import-
ance), there is now the best reason to think that this
decisive course of action was not adopted by the Sardi-
nian Government until after it had received positive
assurances, both from France and Austria, that neither
will oppose any obstacle to the intervention, provided
that, as regards France, the person and patrimony of the
Roman Pontiff be respected, and, as regards Austria,
that Venetia be not attacked, directly or indirectly, by
the Sardinian troops. We can have no hesitation in
saying that, in the present position of affairs and of
Europe, the Government of Piedmont should have had
no difficulty in consenting to give both these pledges.
It would appear by a telegram from Turin that the
representatives of Russia and Prussia at that court
objected very energetically to the course of procedure
indicated by Count Cavour, in his note to Cardinal Anto-
nelli, but the Count remained firm. The remonstrants
have contented themselves with a simple protest,
and an army of 50,000 picked, troops, with their Sove-
reign at their head, now occupies the Umbria to the dis-
may of " the man who compared the love of the Italian
fatherland to Islamism."
From Naples, there is not a single line of intelligence
since yesterday. Some interesting details of the latter
days of the reign of Francis 11. will be found in our
Paris letter.
The Nord, of Brussels, which shares with the Morn-
ing Advertiser the unenviable distinction of being
unapproachable in the department of canard manufac-
ture, has given a prominent place to a statement that
a coalition has been " quite recently " entered into by
England, Austria, and Prussia, against France. Austria
has already contradicted the announcement, so far as
she is concerned, but whether the two other Powers
will think it necessary to follow that example remains
to be seen. The much-talked-of meeting between the
Emperors Alexander and Joseph, and the Prince Regent
of Prussia, at Warsaw, is now stated to be fixed for the
early part of next month.
A telegram, in anticipation of the India and China
mails, states that the Taku Forts were to be attacked
on the 20th July; and we receive by similar means the
unpleasant intelligence that we are waging a small war
with some of the native tribes of New Zealand, and that
our troops have been repulsed with severe loss, consider-
ing the numbers engaged. There must undoubtedly
have been great mismanagement in some quarter.
It will be observed that a fresh monetary crisis has
• occurred at Sydney.
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