The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-08-13 00:00:00

alarm.

HONG KONG, June 23.

Lord Elgin and Baron Gros arrived here on
the 21st, and proceeded for the north. Sir Hope
Grant, with troops and transports, has also pro-
ceeded northward.

SICILY.

PALERMO, August 7.

The municipalities of Sicily have expressed
their satisfaction at the promulgation of the Sar-
dinian statuto. The ministry of Signor Crispi is
very popular. Signor Depretz has dismissed the
bourbon magistrates, who were still in office ;
the measure has given general satisfaction.

NAPLES, (via Genoa,) August 7.

Assembling of foreign troops continues. They
will shortly number 10,000. Several Garibaldian.
'volunteers, who have disembarked. in Calabria,
are organising a revolution in the mountains.

The Ambassadors are transferring their families
on board war steamers.

THE FRENCH FUNDS.
PARIS, Aug. 10.

3.25 P.M.—The Bourse remains dull, but vari-
able. Rentes flat, and closed at 58f. 15c., b lower
than yesterday.

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, August 10.

Official advices have been received from
Damascus to the 4th inst. On the 3rd inst.,
Fuad Pacha arrested 330 persons who took part
in the massacres. On the 4th the number arrested
exceeded 400. It was expected that those most
compromised would be arrested on the 6th. All
of them will be tried by an extraordinary com-
mission appointed by Fuad Pacha, and those con-
victed would be executed immediately. The
arrests were peaceably effected, and the city was
perfectly tranquil. The troops had given proofs
of patriotic ardour.

It is expected that the committee. of twenty-
one members of the Reichspath, having sue-
cesively received communications from all
ministers, will terminate its sittings to-morrow.
The members have agreed to draw up the pro-
ject relative to the political organisation of the
-Austrian empire in the most simple manner pos-
sible, in order to oblige the Government to give
its answer affirmative or negative in the most
decided manner. The Resolution was adopted at
a private sitting of the committee by a majory of
18 against 3. The committee is of opinion
that a constitution based upon the federative sys-
tem demanded by the Hungarian delegates,
should be granted to all the provinces, thus recog-
nising the intimate union which henceforth must
exist between all the provinces of the empire.
All the members of the Council of the Empire
are invited to be present at the inauguration of
the railway from Saltzburg to Munich, which is
to take place on Sunday next.
The official Weiner Zeitung, of this morning,
publishes a report of the Minister of Finance on
the present financial condition of the empire, and
the means of covering the different deficit. The
minister states that the deficit of 1861 is estimated
at 39,000,000 of florins. The deficit of 1860 was
estimated at 87-1 millions, which by additional
outlays was increased by 7 and 3-sth millions.
To cover. this deficit there was at the disposal of
the Ministry 76i millions of florins in the Trea-
sury, and 39,1 millions resulting from the reduc-
tion of the expenses and a surplus of receipts.
After covering the deficit of 'lB6O, there remains
a sum of 201 millions. The amount result-
ing from the reduction of expenses, and from
extraordinary income, will be sufficient to meet
the deficit of 1861, leaving the above balance
entirely at the disposal of the Minister to meet
the deficit of 1862, consequently there is no
necessity for an increase of tax, or a new loan.
The Minister concludes the report by saying that
the income and expenditure, may therefore be
considered as being equalised.