The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-10-20 00:00:00

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1860.

NEWS OF THE DAY.

A very thleaq feeling has been caused by certain
recent movements Of the Austrian and Piedmontese
troops on the frontiers which separate the Austrian
possessions from Lombardy, and it has been increased
by a confirmation of the intelligence that France is
sending a large additional body of troops to Italy. The
Hationalite's says :—" There is an entire division of
Austrian soldiers at Borgoforte, and the village of
Grazie, on the confines of the province of Mantua, is
also strongly occupied, This menacing attitude of
Austria has obliged the Piedmontese to concentrate
troops on the line of the Po under the command of
Cialdini, Cucchiari, and Durando, The line of the
Mincio is defended by General La Marmora. It is said
that the latter will be appointed to the command of the
army of Southern Italy." Great alarm was felt at the
Paris Bourse in consequence of the subsequent rumour
that the Austrians had crossed the Po. This report
turns out to be true, but inasmuch as they have only
sent 3,000 or 4,000 to a point near Ostiglia, which is
not out of their own territory, the measure, though no
doubt bearing a hostile aspect, is only defensive.
Few persons will be Tound to dispute the justice of
the grounds on which Signor Casella, on the part of
Francis 11., has protested against the decree of the
Garibaldian Government, awarding a pension to the
widow and sisters of Agesilas Milano, who perished in
an attempt to assassinate the late King of Naples. It is
quite impossible to justify the preamble of the decree in
question, which speaks of the memory of Agesilas
Milano as being sacred in the eyes of the country, and
of his having " immolated himself with a heroism
without parallel upon the altar of the country, in order
to deliver it from the tyrant who oppressed it." The
crime of assassination can never be justifiable,
whatever results may attend its successful commission.
In Naples it is quite evident the Mazzinians and the
anti-annexationists are in no favour with the great
body of the people, and had Garibaldi, after reinstating
Pallavicini and dismissing Crispi, the sworn friend of
Mazzini, again changed his policy the Neapolitans
would have lost confidence in the Dictator, and an out-
' break much more serious than that which compelled
him to give up his Mazzinian friends would undoubtedly
have been the result. It is to be hoped we shall hear
of no more Milano decrees.
According to a statement in a postscript of the viva-
cious Paris correspondent of the Herald, Cardinal Auto-
nelli is endeavouring to induce the Pope to withdraw to
Gaeta, and claim the hospitality of the King of Naples,
which, he remarks, would be a "startling complication."
It certainly would be so; but it is more than doubtful
whether the imperial guardian of His Holiness would
permit him to act on the advice. It is not courage that
the Pope lacks for such a daring move, but the ability
to make it.
Some very curious despatches of General Lamoriciere's,
which have found their way into the hands of his
enemies, have been published. They disclose abundant
evidence of the hostile feelings entertained by the late
Generalissimo of his Holiness towards the Emperor
Napoleon, and also not a few sneers, we are sorry to
say, at the Irish Brigade, many of whom fought so
well for the wretched cause which he represented.
It is rather painful to learn that MM. St. Mare
Girardin and Silvestre de Sacy, two honoured names in
French literature, have severed their connection with
the Journal des Debats, the most respectable and really
independent of all the Paris journals, owing, it is said,