The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-08-21 00:00:00

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TUESDAY; AUGUST 21, 1860.

NEWS OF THE DAY.

In the House of Lords, last night, the second read-
ing of the Fortifications Bill was carried, after an ener-
getic statement in its support by Lord Ellenborough ;
and a good deal of other important business was
transacted.

In the Commons, Mr. Lindsay reiterated his opi-
nion that the defence of the country should be
entrusted to the navy, which, he maintained, was
greatly superior to that of the French ; but his statements
were controverted by the Admiralty Secretary. Lord
Palmerston, in reply to Mr. Monsell, protested against
the dismemberment of the Turkish Empire being advo-
cated in that House; and as regarded the disturbances
in Syria, he observed, that M. Thouvenel had admitted
to Lord Cowley that the Maronites had been the
aggressors. A great deal of miscellaneous business was
afterwards proceeded with, chiefly relating to Ireland,
and the House again sat till a very late hour, as will be
seen from our telegraphic summary.
The different foreign journals continue, for the most
part, their speculations concerning the result of the
Tceplitz interview ; and the rumour as to an admonitory
note having been received by Count Cavour, from the
Austrian Government, has not yet quite died out. As
to the former, it is now admitted on all hands that
Austria does not mean to interfere by arms in Italy,
unless she shall be attacked from the Adriatic or
on the line of the Mincio ; and it is considered
equally free from doubt that Prussia has intimated to
Austria that the will not help her to defend Venice
against Italian Powers merely. As to the nature of the
aid which Prussia would in such circumstances afford to
her ally, it is surmised that it would not go beyond de-
spatching an auxiliary force to the territories of Austria
Proper, in order to facilitate her movements in Italy.
As to the warning alleged to have been given by Austria
to Piedmont ; the latest explanation proposed for our
credibility is, that the intimation was a verbal one, and
that it was given either through M. Brassier de St.
Simon, the Prussian Envoy at Turin, or through Sir
James Hudson. We are also asked to believe, with
reference to the Continental combinations of the future—
first, that the Emperor of the French, disappointed in
the result of sundry diplomatic negotiations in which
he has been engaged, is now encouraging the
Sing of Naples to resist the revolution to the
utmost, and Ifs, for this purpose, no doubt, forwarded
Francis 11., ere this, the programme of a coup d'etat
and, secondly, that Prussia has succeeded in obtaining
an understanding between Prussia, England, and Russia,
by virtue of which France will not be allowed to make
any encroachment on the Rhine frontier, and that this
is the explanation of the great explosion of rage lately
manifested by the Constitutionnel and Opinion Nationale.
But we must decline assenting, till better advised.
"Whilst Piedmont is proceeding so energetically with
her material defences, it is asserted, on information
derived from friendly as well as from hostile sources,
that the personnel of her Lombardian army is dwindling
away, owing to desertion. The corps in which this
plague is most rife is said to be those chiefly composed
of Tuscans and Romagnols, whose hatred of discipline
and a soldier's life is such, that they cross the Mincio,
and give themselves up to the Austrian authorities in
Mantua.

The extreme scantiness of the telegraphic intelligence
from Naples, and the almost total absence of any news
whatever of the actual whereabouts of Garibaldi at the
present moment, is probably owing to the telegraphic
wires having been broken,—a fact which is mentioned
in a letter from Rome to one of the French papers. The
writer says, " The telegraph is broken all of a sudden,
nobody knows where, and there are no longer any news
from Naples in the meantime."
From France there are accounts that the vintage is
seriously compromised, and that the harvest has been
seriously injured in Champagne, the Beance, and Nor-
mandy ; that in Paris trade is at a stand-still, and that
the most gloomy anticipations exist for the winter—so
much so, that the municipality of Paris are purchasing
whole blocks of houses, for the purpose of affording
occupation to the operatives during the winter months
in pulling them down.

The rain continues to fall, and the Budget to expand.
Mr. Gladstone has obtained power to add, by the issue
of Exchequer Bonds, two millions to the seventy-five
previously voted. One of these two millions will be
wanted in November to pay off bonds on bills then
coming due. The other million is asked for on account
of the weather. Nothing but a miracle of sunshine can
save us now from a late and scanty harvest. If we had
not free-trade in corn, we should have a deficiency of
food and a plenitude of destitution. With all the har-
vests of the world to feed us, we may yet have a rise
in prices. If all nations were free-traders, there would
still be a diminished demand for other articles, in con-
sequence of the larger sums spent on bread. This dis-
tnrbance of trade must, in turn, affect the revenue.

Some experimental trials of a somewhat similar cha-
racter to those recently carried out on cur townsman's,
Mr. Jones's, systemof an ;elated armour for ships' sides,
have been, during the past fortnight, conducted at
Portsmouth, under the supervision of Capt. R. Hewlett,

C.B. The experiments on Jones's target were intended.
to prove the correctness or incorrectness of a principle

Those in the instances to which we are now alluding
were intended to test the powers of resistance offered by

plates or other forms of armour in a vertical position to

round shot. The result of the firing at these plates has
been that out of eleven shots, only one has fractured
them, and that was caused by the very unusual circum-

stance of a 'Shot haVing struck in the very centre of an