The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-11-12 00:00:00

atrocious piece of abiurdity he has lately been
guilty" that he should have been deemed deserv-
ing of "such an equivocal position 'as that of a
Town Councillor!" Contemplate the fact of a
" Wastedealer"—a "shocking" sort Of Marine
store-keeper, we slippose-being the herd oI
the hoilr's at the statutory meeting of legally
qualifial electors ! We feel hUmbled as a mem-
ber of this great community to have to refer
to certain recent manifestations in our ToWn
Council; Which alt niftiest worthy of the Town
Oonneilof Stirling. We shall not name the anti-
Irish and opinion-eating councillor, or the fire
eating member, whose sentiments he endorsed,
because we have no desire to be personal, or to
stir up the reaollection of a scene Whioh ail ilinst
now regret. Fortunately for tile honour of Liver-
pool and Its Municipal parliament, the number of
gentlemen who have shown their determination
to do their utmost to destroy the dignity and de-
corum of the Council-room, is still very insignifi-
cant. They may very easily—and must—be got
rid of or reformed. It redounds to the credit of

tie eleotors of this to*ni. tliat holiThere else

t , • , .
itroiighont the,. kingdom has the character
of the civic government been maintained
at a higher point of distinguished excellence
and. efficiency. Long may it be so. The
recent election has especially re-asserted its
superiority. It is for the interest of the tax-
payers that it should never be deteriorated. by the
introduction of gentlemen into the Council iVhos'e
unruly speech and ill7regillated Cdridnet IVoitld
tend to repel those Whdi bY influence,
and intelligence) at'C best calculated to, serve the
pliblie interests. We care little for what a can-

aidate for public confidence may style himself—
Conservative or Liberal. We want genuine; not
spurious, liberality. It is for the electers to con-
sider hoW far) With the increase of extreme
Riulitalism in the Council, we have had a decrease
of respectable usefulness in that body ; and if
they think the root of the evil to be found in that
direction, they know how to 'Counteract it. Be
that as it may, let us remember the sad fate of
Stirling—one among too many others—and if the
burgesses of Liverpool would save this Corpora,
tion from any such degradation, let them, for
the fature, be more careful than ever to record
their votes only in favour of candidates whose
personal views and principles of individual action
qualify them, without dubiety or equivocation, to
associate with those gentlemen who still happily
remain as a majority at the head of the municipal
body, and who so worthily represent the wealth
and importance of Liverpool. That that majority
should be what is called " Conservative" in
politics, may be no recommendation, so far as it
goes, in the opinion of many worthy fellow
citizens ; but if, on thoughtful and unbiassed i
reflection, it shall appear that they have best
sustained the useful character, wholesome influ-
ence, and high respectability of the Council, we
trust that there is nothing in the mere name to
exclude them from a just and universal acknow-
ledgment of the value and importance of their
services to the Community, Notwithstanding
our renunciation of any merely party political
purpose in making these observations, we know
that certain interested parties will insist upon
seeing nothing but partisanship in these state-
ments and remarks. We appeal, however, to an
impartial and independent body of electors—to
the people of Liverpool, who have no interest in
misjudging our motives, and by their judgment
we are content to stand or fall.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRANCE.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, Saturday, Nov. 10.

I learn that, besides the private autograph
letters exchanged between the Emperor Napo-
leon and the Czar, to which I alluded in my
last, the correspondence has been kept up be-
tween the two Emperors, and that a decided
renewal of cordiality between them has been
effected. M. de Kisseleff, the Russian envoy,
has been twice received at St. Cloud since his
return from Warsaw.

It is stated that all the diplomatic agents of
France who are at present in Paris on leave of
absence have received instructions to return to
the- places to which they are respectively ac-
credited, without delay.
M. Ernest Crampon, one of the Foreign Office
attaches, has been sent to Syria to assist Isl.
Beclard in his mission, which is becoming
daily more difficult to 'manage. I am told
that the position of General de Beaufort has
become almost unbearable. He has forwarded
to Paris a number of complaints, couched in
most energetic language, as to the sinsatisfaCtory
state of things ; and they are said to be entirely
borne out by the commission which is sitting at
Bey-rout. No attention has been paid to his
demands by the Turkish authorities, and affairs
are not one whit nearer a settlement than they
were on the day on which the expedition disem-
barked. The present subject of discussion relates
to the occupation -of Damascus, and even Jeru-
salem; and Fund Pacha alleges that Damascus,
being a holt city, the Presence in it of the French
troops would provoke a general rising of the
whole country. Whether this result is what the
General is longing for or not, I cannot say ;
but
the commission is waiting for fresh instructions ;
and one may soon expect to hear of some military
movements taking place on a large scale.
According to a Vienna letter in the Gazette de
Cologne, the Grand Duke of Tuscany has entirely
renounced the idea of returning to• Florence, and
means to resign himself to the force of • events ;
the Duke of Modena, does the. same, but the
Duchess of. Parma still clings to the hope of
being able to transmit her heritage to her son.
I should think, however, that this hope can
scarcely survive the departure of Francis 11.
from Gaeta, of which fact, news is now expected
every hour. This leads me to say a parting word
on the subject of the intervention of the French
Admiral, at the mouth of the Garigliano. It is
now positively ascertained that when Admiral de
Tinan compelled the Sardinian ships to cease firing,
he was acting entirely in conformity with orders
he had received from his government, but that,
feeling the awkwardness of his position, he wrote
home for fresh instructions, when he was directed,
for the future, to confine himself to prohibiting
the bombardment of Gaeta, and keeping open the
exit from the fortress by sea; the Piedmontese
being permitted, in all other respects, to avail
themselves of the fire of their ships in facilitating
their operations on shore. It is supposed that
the last victory gained by Victor Emmanuel over
the Neapolitans was mainly owing to the assist-
ance he derived from his fleet. -
A manifesto by Kossuth to the Hungarians has
just appeared. In this document, which is very
moderate in its tone, Kossuth explains to his corn-
patriots the reasons which influence him in re-
fraining from joining in any movement at present
against Austria. He announces that revolution
in Germany is advancing with rapid steps, and
that this time the people will not be wanting to
the occasion which is offered to them.
oppressive measures which, according to him, are
meditated, will riot succeed in extinguishing the
eager desires of GermanY for unity and liberty.
In now raising his voice, he says he does so only to
counsel prudence and moderation to his fellow-
citizens. Ere long a cry of liberty will resound
throughout Europe, and ultimate success is not
far off. The manifesto is of great length, and
framed much in the ordinary strain of the Hun-
garian ex-Dictator. •
Notwithstanding that all apprehensions of any
immediate conflict with any foreign power have
ceased, the great manufactories and arsenals of
France have orders of such importance and mag-
nitude, on account of the navy, that in many
instances workmen cannot be got in sufficient
numbers to execute them. The articles chiefly
in demand are plaques de, blindage (steel
plating
for the sides of ships), as it is now quite under-
stood that the French 'navy is about to undergo
a complete transformation in that direction, and
that the Council of State will very soon authorise
a credit for the expenses of this proposed recon-
struction of the French men-of--war, which will
astonish John Bull himself.
General Montauban, who, as I lately mentioned,
has been promptly created a senator for his services
in China, is sending home an entire collection of
Chinese arms,—matchlocks, bows, crossbows,
sabres, shields, &c.,—which were found in the
Taku Forts after they were evacuated by the
defenders. The collection is to be placed in the
Artillery Museum. England will surely not be
deprived of her share of such interesting memorials
of this remarkable people.
Business still continues very animated at .the
Bourse; but the upward movement in Rentes and
Credit Mobilier Shares is slightly related. The

Rente, however, has been done at as high a rate
as 70 10.

ITALY,
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:
The official gazette of Milan (Lc/ Lonitai;citlai
of the 2nd instant gave td its readers another of
those revolutionary articles which have lately
been the principal theme of that journal. The
Writer suites that the only nieartS of bringing
their gioriatis iellieiethents io a end
is by entirely destroying the treaties of Vienna of
1815 (which is intended as a plum for the Em-
peror of the French). To place Italy in a posi-
tion to combat the armed legions of Austria ;
deStroY several other thrones ; send about their
biisineSs a feW more Princes.; entirely spoliate
the Pope of every vestige of his `temporal poWeit
excite the thunders of the Vatican—those thunders
which in other times were sufficient to tear from
the brow the crown of the Caesars, and excite
millions and millions of Catholics, but whose
spiritual influence is now gone for ever—to
increase the influence of the Latin populations ;
to lay the basis of new internotional rights (?),
and establish a more equitable (P) equilibrium of
Eilfdtie d *ord; to entirely destroy all
,the
international laws of nations; dethronePrinCed

of their sovereign and legitir_-:ate inheritance;
violate the rights of the people; shoot down, like
so many mad dogs, every man offering
the slight-
est opposition to those outrageous anarchists whose
aim is to build up their own greatness and power
at the sacrifice of thousands of their countrymen.
This is the doctrine that is. now incessantly ding-
donged in, the ears of the , Italian people. With
Stith principles; is it surprising that the minds of
the people should become brutalised, and the
worst passions engendered iri their natures against
the young King of Naples
,and those, Who still
remain faithful to their iinferturiate Sovereign ?
It *as brit yesterday that I heard iii a public
dining-room an Italian, speaking of the prisoners
that were taken in the 'late engagement on the
banks of the Garigliano, give utterance to the
following brutal sentiment, which was warmly
applauded by those at the same table,—that the
government ought to drive, at the point of the
bayonet, on board some old vessel, every prisoner
taken in that fight, and when crammed, to take
her out to sea, and fire into .her until she went
down with every man on board. This is only
one of many similar sentiments uttered by the
italiaris against the totirliens an a Austrians.
The artiele concludes by stating that the grafi-
tUde of Italy will never be forgotten towards
their magnanimous ally, France. It was neces-
sary that the throne of that nation, should be
occupied by a Napoleon, and that thifi Napoleon
should- be conYineed that to nidititaiii Fradee at
the head of the civilised World, it is necessary to
strengthen the power of the Latin race, and make
Italy a powerful ally for himself and his empire.
The drift of the last part of this article is, as
usual, to cry in the Emperor's car that he has no
other sincere and faithful ally in Europe but
Italy, and that the day May cdme,---=and that
shortly; too—when he will have need of the
assistance of his neighbours, and the 'ltalians will
have an opportunity of showing their gratitude
for 'the blood that France so generously shed on
the fields of Magenta and Solferino. It is there-
fore imperative, no matter by what means, to
enable Italy to beconie a lio*erful nation, and
rank anlotig the great poWers of Purope. A
letter from Naples inforins me that the Sardinian
squadron which I stated in my letter of the 2nd
instant left Naples on the 27th ultimo for Gaeta,
with the. intention. of acting in conjunction with
the army of Victor Emmanuel, at the mouth of
the Garigliano, where a Strong force of the
Royalists was encamped. The 'instruction
received by Persano from Victor Emmanuel was,
that the bombardment of the city and fortress
of Gaeta was to commence from the sea
side as soon
.as the troops had surrounded the
city, and opened their fire from the land side:
If I am correctly informed it seems that as swill
as Persano commenced. his fire against the en-
trenched camp at the entrance of the Garigliano,
the French Admiral came up, 'and forced the Sar•
dinian vessels to retire, plainly telling Persano
that he would not permit the bombardment of
Gaeta by the Silltdinian fleet: My letter further
states, that the only motive for this step is the
frightful sacrifice of ' that would follow, if
Persato was permitted to,carry out his intention.
The Sardinian Admiral being thus balked in his
instructions, at onee.handed a formal .protest to
the French Admiral, and another to the English
Commander of the Renown. If this step of the
French Admiral was dictated by a feeling of pure
humanity for the inhabitants and the young
King, his queen, and brothers and sisters, all of
whom are very. young, we must applaud this
determination of Admiral de Tinan in preventing
Persano from burying beneath the ruin of their
palace, the
almost defenceless members of the
Royal family, and also spare Sardinia the stain
which it contemplated bringing upon itself by an
act which could only be equalled.by the bombard-
ment 'of Palermo, without a justification for the
same desperate motives which influenced that
cruel *act of the Neapolitan fleet. The evident
object of the
.Sardinians is to rush on with their
operations regardless of whatever cost of life, or
who the persons might be, in order to take Gaeta
before the winter sets in. The game, although a
desperate one, is not yet lost, should the Royalists
be but true to themselves. Some of the revo-
lutionary spirits are furious against the French
Admiral, " for his contempt of the principle
of non-intervention." It is also very amusing
to read the revolutionary '• journals of this
city, and hear the cafe politicians expatiate
against. this "violation of the dogma of non-
intervention." Has Piedmont violated no
international law or committed no flagrant viola-
tion of the rights of princes and.peoples ? The
same prints cry out, is it not frightful that this
Bourbon should thus protract a struggle which is
daily causing the sacrifice of so many lives P Is
it not the worst description of inhumanity to thus
endeavour to turn the tide of events in his favour
with such a formidable and valorous army under
the walls of Gaeta? Is it not another proof of
the cruel barbarism of this despotic race ? Here
let me bring back to your readers an extract from
a recent article in the Times in reference to the
flight and resistance that Francis 11. is now
making at Gaeta :—" Bourbon Royalty is
,only
dying a lingering death. So far as the personal
reputation of the unhappy Monarch is concerned,
no doubt the resistance at Capua and Gaeta has
not been in vain. Had Francis 11. transferred
himself at once from his capital to a Spanish

frigate it is difficult to imagine anything more
dreary, more devoid of hope to a man of common
feeling than his future life. The wretch who,
guilty of some great crime, changes his name,
abandons his country, and trembles in some back
settlement of the New World lest some one who
knew him of old should recognise him and point
him out to the scorn of the world, is hardly a
more listless, careworn, weary pilgrim through
life than would have been the Monarch who,
master of eighty thousand men, was driven out of
the kingdom by a mob in red shirts, and who,
while he might have struck a blow for his crown,
thought of nothing but how to decamp with the
largest amount of plunder. However indulgent
to their own order, the legitimate Sovereigns
could only have received him with contemptuous
pity. However prone to excuse the follies
and weakness of youth, the world could not have
forgiven the absence of youth's distinctive virtue
—courage. The King of Naples would have been
rich, no doubt; he might have recommenced life
under the assumed title of "Prince," or " Count ;"
he might have vegetated with dignity in some
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Even those who sat at his table or crowded into
his saloons would hardly have been able to refrain
from a sneer at one who had purchased ease by
infamy, and, for the sake of life, had given up all
that makes life valuable. From this great indig-
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his scandalised brethren throughout Europe, and
perhaps by those nobler feelings
which human
nature can never wholly lose, lie
has turned on
his enemies and checked them. He has com-
manded an army, fought a battle or two, and
exposed his person to danger. He has avoided
the disgrace of surrendering his crown to an
adventurer; he has forced-the Sardinian army to
take the field against him; and will now be
able to retire from the stage with the character
of an unfortunate prince, who has been vanquished
by a shameless union of foreign aggression and