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

of June.

NEWS OF THE DAY.

A most unexpected explanation of the inystery which
has surrounded the movements of Garibaldi of late, has
been conveyed to us in a telegram( from Naples viii
Marseilles, which states that lie is said to have been
seen in Naples on Saturday, the 6th, and to have had
an interview with some of the principal inhabitants of
that city. We are disposed to consider this explanation
as extremely near the truth. The difficulties of travel-
ling and preserving an incog. in the Neapolitan
dominions have, in a great measure, disappeared with
the establishment of the forms of constitutionalism'
the flight of
.government spies, and the dismissal
of the Police. Besides, Garibaldi's presence in Naples
even for a day-7he left the following morning—and the
result of his conference with the heads of the Liberal
party, vir., that it has been agreed to postpone the
revolutionary crisis till the assembling of the new Par-
liament, which is near at hand, account most satisfac-
torily for the continuous state of tranquility which
Naples has hitherto preserved, notwithstanding the
actual landing of the Garibaldiaus on the Calabrian
shores, and the disaffection and constant desertion of
of the troops to whom the defence of the city is
entrusted. The account which is supplied to us by our
Paris correspondent, of the state of things and of parties
in Naples, quite prepares us to learn by the same telegram,
that the electors are unanimously prepared to vote for
men who have declared fqr the annexation to Piedmont.
The interval will, doubtless, be well employed by Gari-
baldi in collecting his strength for that great struggle,
Whose scene lies far beyond Naples, and whose issue will
be satisfaetory only after it has resulted in the entire and
absolute unity of every one of the component parts of the
Italian Peninsula. The Count of Syracuse, by declaring
himself to be in favour of annexation, virtually also
places his influence and his sword at the disposal of the
successful and undaunted liberator of the Sicilians and
the future deliyerei: of the subjects of his nephew.
From Palermo, there is no confirmation, but the
reverse, of the recent unfavourable accounts from that
capital. At Genoa, the indefatigable Bertami continues
the organisation of the thousands of volunteers, who
continue to flock thither with the offer of their lives,
and many of them, with that of their fortunes, for the
promotion,ot the great cause which Garibaldi's flag is
to represent on the mainland ; and at Rome, which is
still tranquil, his holiness is occupying himself with the
despatch of his gifts and consolations to the Patriarch,
and the seven Bishops of Syria : General Lamoriciere,
and the commandant of the French troops, have made
themselves responsible for the external defence of the
remains of his temperepossessions ; while the munici-
pality of the city, being apprehensive of a famine, de-
mand a prohibition of the exportation of corn.
Official (which means, Turkish) advices from
Damascus, received via Vienna, inform us that, ener-
getic measures have been taken by Fuad Pasha, since
his arcil'al, in bringing these fiendish Druses and their
Turkish accomplices to justice, and invite the belief that
he has succdeded in pacifying that city and neighbour-
hood, and was assisted in his task by the patriotic ardour
Of the Turkish, troops. There has been a race between
the authorities at Constantinople and the French Govern-
ment. The representative of the former having reached
the seat of tha disturbances first, avails himself of that
circumstance tg frame such a favourable report of the
state of affairs as to deprive the French Emperer of any
good ground for -persevering in sending one of his
glenerals-to help him ; but the astute Turk has not suc-
ceeded in his object.
The publication of the alleged text of Garibaldi's
letter to the King of Sardinia, has been rapidly followed
by that of the following communication, which the
'Dictator is said, by the. Messina correspondent of a
London evening journal, to have entrusted 'his Envoy
to the British Government, Prince Pandolfiui, to
deliverldQueen Victoria
" Youu MAJESTY: Called by my duty to my Italian
fatherland to defend its cause in Sicily, have assumed
the dictatorship of a generous people, who, after a
long-continued struggle, wish for nothing but to par-
ticipate in the national life and freedom under the
sceptre of the magnanimous Prince in whom Italy trusts.
The Envoy who presents himself to your Majesty
in the name of the. Provisional Government which now
i rules this conntry, does not pretend to represent a
sPecial'imd distinct state, blit he comes as the inter-
' preter of the' theighis and sentiments of two millions
and ¢ half of Italians. By this title I beg your Ma-
jesty to deign to pare 110,1? granting a kind audience
and attention to what he may respectinlly urge upon
yOur Majesty in behalf of this Most beautiful and noble
part of Italy. G. GARIVALD. Palermo, June 22. To
her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland."
By the arrival of the African mail on Saturday,

intelligence has arrived of the loss of the Ganges screw
steamer while on a voyage to India with Government
store?. The )3ritish ship Stamboul, it has been ascer-

tained, was also wrecked. off Kurrachee, on the 20th


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The London Committee of the British Syrian Relief
Fund have sent £l,OOO especially for Damascus, in
addition to £3,000 for the general purposes of the
Beyrout Committee.

A man, who gives the Christian names of Edward
'J'ohn, but who withholds his surname, has conic forward
and declared himself the perpetrator of the murder at
Road. This circumstance creates considerable interest
at Oxford, where he arrived in the custody of Sergeant
Royle last Saturday afternoon. It is stated that the
prisoner has the appearance of perfect sanity, but from
the evidence in his case, which has already been brought
before the public, we are inclined to doubt the fact.
Full particulars of the confession will be found in
another part of our columns.

The Nelson Examiner, of May 12, published at New
Zealand, remarks, with reference to the introduction of
Mr. G. T. Train's horse railways at Liverpool, that the

time seems approaching when the introduction of some
facilities of this description will be witnessed in all
large European towns, and the method may possibly be
promoted by a contrivance lately brought forward by a
Mr. Curtis, for enabling the carriages to pass off and on
a line of rail at pleasure.

An important meeting of Huddersfield and Leeds
manufacturers was held at Huddersfield, on Friday last,
for the purpose of uniting in taking steps in relation to
the French Treaty. There was a unanimous and most
determined feeling in favour of ad valorem, and of
resistance to specific, duties, and a resolution was ulti-
mately passed that a joint letter should be sent by the
presidents of the three chambers to Mr. Cobden, repre-
senting in the strongest terms the impossibility of assess-
ing specific duties with any degree of fairness.
There is every probability of a speedy termination of

the strike of the Coventry weavers. A new price list has
been drawn up, and several of the manufacturers have
intimated that they are willing to adhere to these terms.
A severe storm passed over the metropolis on Satur-
day last. One of the flashes of lightning struck the
large gilt grasshopper, the crest of the Gresham family,
which surmounted the clock tower of the Royal
Exchange, splitting the figure, and causing it to slip
down the rod upon which it rested as a vane; The fluid
passing down the electric rod prevented further damage.
The large dragon which surmounts the spire of. Bow
Church also met with similar injury from the lightning.
One of the wings of the dragon and a small portion of
stonework were loosened and fell.
The plea of insanity is definitely fixed on by the
friends of Wm. Godfrey Youngman, the Walworth
murderer, as the one to be used at his forthcoming trial

for his monstrous offence.
The Adjutant-General has issued a general order to the
several corps of Volunteers which were reviewed at Min-
burgh, expressive of the satisfaction and gratification
which her Majesty experienced on that occasion.
By the steamer Africa, which arrived on Saturday,

we are informed, upon high authority, that the disunion

movement is 'much More extensive and mature than had
been supposed ; that concerted action has been taken
by several of the States in seceding, and that an agent
is to be sent to Europe to sound the Cabinets of St.
Cloud and St. James, as to what policy they would feel
bound to pursue toward a Southern, Confederacy in case
of a dissolution. There are fcur organised parties and
six different candidates in the field fur the Presidency,
and yet it must appear to every intelligent observer, of
any party or faction, that for all practical purposes the
contest .lies .between Lincoln or Breckenridge. It is
morally certain that Lincoln will carry every Northern
State from Maine to Minnesota.
The volunteer review at Newton, on Saturday, wanted
only fine weather to render it a complete sureess. - The
number of volunteers was larger than at any previous
gathering in this part of the country, and the spectators
included some of the principal gentry resident in this
neighbourhood. From Liverpool we observed Lieut.-
Colonel Bourne, Mr. William Brown, Mr. Leigh,
the member for the southern division of the county,
and a large number of friends on his private stand ; and
the invited guests were both numerous and fashionable.
The heavy rain which attended the conclusion of the
review was the only drawback.

*** Owing to a pressure of matter, we are obliged
to hold over several important articles until to-morrow.

ENGLAND 'TO THE RESCUE.!

PEACE reigns in Damascus ; yet the blood of
sixteen thousand Christians of Syria cries aloud
to heaven for vengeance. Three thousand Chris-
tian women, purchased with fanatic gold, are held
captives in the harems of the infidels! Bowed
down with grief and shame, they appeal_ to the
great powers of Europe for justice on the de-
stroyers of their happiness and the murderers cf
their children, and shall it be denied to them ?
Most assuredly not.

Forty thousand of our co-religionists are perish-
ing with hunger in the mountains of Kesrouan,
" There, toils and death, and death's half-brother, sleep

Forms terrible to view, their sentry keep."
The very Pashas and their troops wink at their
starving condition, and, in the name of the Sultan,
the Arabs have been forbidden to carry corn to
them, although they s.re reduced to eat the very
leaves of the mulberry trees. The details which
have reached us of the massacres at Der-el-Kamar
are unparalleled in history, and our blood boils
with indignation at the atrocities committed :
children were ripped up on their mother's breast ;
husbands have had their throats cut on the knees
of those whom they had sworn to love and cher-
ish ; helpless and innocent women—the beauty of
Der-el-Kamar—were publicly violated in the
open streets; men, women, and even children,
were publicly burnt, and their charred and hide-
ous corpses lay exposed to the rays of a scorching
sun. Boiling water was poured in abundance on
the heads of the umiffending Christians. The
Druses cut off the very fingers of those who had
written for succour. " You have need to be
shaved," they cried, and the hatchet (replacing
the razor) carried off the heads. In their despair
and misery, they cast themselves upon the mercy
of the Turkish soldiers ; but, instead' of protec-
tion, they were repulsed by the bayonet,
and delivered over like beasts of the field
to be slaughtered by their . murderers.
What was the result of such infamy ? Why, the
very barracks which ought to have proved a
shelter for them ,were flooded with blood and the
corpses lay piled in heaps.
The name of Cawnpore sinks into insignificance
before that of Der-el-Kamar. The atroeities QOM:
mated on Thnrsday, the 21st of June, will be an
-everlasting blot in the annals of Turkish history,
which all the blood of the Druses can never wash
away. The Sultan's government by these horrid
outrages has admitted its own complete impotence,
and proves the great need in which it stands of
the aid of Europe to repress and punish crimes
which have raised the indignation of the Christian
world.. What is demanded by tbe circumstances
of the ease is, the arrest a'l4 immediate ;execution
Df all the leaders" of the massacre, however
execution of_
tragedy, by -purchasing
their station ; and also, thtl
every Mussulman who participated even indi-
rectly in this g the
females torn from their homes by the ruffian
rout" who did the work of slaughter and plunder.
Moreover, the'inhabitants of Damascus should be
struck with a subsidy sufficiently heavy to
impress upon the Plinth 9f iP motley population
the necessity of living at peace With their neigh-
tours, These barbarous primes are already
pry
dicing a result which every one 'Must deplore.
Commerce is ruined at Beyrout, and two hundred
houses are all that remain of the city of Damascus.
A general feeling of insecurity prevails at
Smyrna and at Constantinople. Misery prevails
unt•
there to a fearfd extent among the poor, powder
is in demand, ane, precious stones are'et a discp
The POrte is 'arolsed fioin its lethargy, and is
taking active measures to redress the wrongs of
the Christians, I!alons of the intervenliSal ofthe Great PoWert of Europe, four hundred'
persons have beet arrested and summarily
accused, some of whom, • it is' pronounced,
will be executed. low many of such victims
will atone for the good of sixteen thousand
Christians ? Surely he English Government, on

perusing such heartrending details, will at once
send assistance to aid the' suffering- Christians of
Syria, for depend upon it, the present zeal of the
Sultan will soon die out. France, whatever ulterior
object-she may have, has here taken an initiative,
for which the civilised world owes her a debt of
gratitude. Russia is also forwarding her steam-
frigates, and the other great powers are folloWing
her example. The Christians of the East are
groaning under Turkish dominion, and the Pope
of Rome has had to express his sympathy for the
brutal murder of one hundred and fifty Catholic
priests. Sympathy is not the word for England;
action, immediate action, is necessary upon her
part, to show that she is not slow to avenge the
murders of Der-el-Kamar, and that she does not
intend to forfeit her place as chief among the
•
empires of the world.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRANCE.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

PARIS, Saturday, August 11, 1860.

The same uncertainty still continues to prevail
respecting the present whereabouts of the 1,500
Garibaldians, who were reported as having landed
in Calabria. What adds to the general greediness
for news on this point is, that the disembarkation
of Garibaldi himself upon the main land, his
success, and triumphant entry into Naples, have
now quite passed from the region of probability to
that of certainty—so far as. this can be said of
any sublunary affairs. It is even thought that he
will not encounter any lengthened or serious
opposition in the Roman States, but that it is
upon the Mincio, and against the forces of Austria
collected on its banks, that the real blow for
the independence of Italy will have to be struA.
Nor can there now be much doubt but that Pied-
mont will find herself entangled in the coning
struggle, whether she will or not, though the
success of that struggle must, in a great measure,
depend upon the perseverence in, or relinquish-
ment, by France, of the policy which she has here-
tofore pursued with respect to the Italian question.
The hesitation, craftiness, and uncertainty which
still continue to envelop the conduct of the
Emperor of the French in relation to the affairs
of Italy, is described as excessively " irritating."
Assuming the version given by the Opinione
Nationale of the reply of Garibaldi to the King
of Sardinia to be correct, it would seem to have
been almost impossible for the writer to have
expressed himself and the necessities of his posi-
tion, as the self-elected liberator of Italy, with
more dignity, reasonableness, and moderation,
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than he has there done.. It is a pity, therefore,
that the official Gazette of Turin should haVe sa
unguardedly (to say the least) endorsed the lying
reports which were circulated as to the alleged
cruel execution of prisoners at Alilazzo by the
victorious General. I mentioned in my last that
S. Parini had been successful in inducing Bertani
to divert the proposed expedition of 8,000 men,

intended for a rade into the Pontifical States, into
another direction, but it now appears that the
delay in the setting of of these troops for the
Roman territories is only temporary, and that
their ultimate destination will certainly, ere long,
be realized; a fact which appears to be well known
both to General Lamoriciere and the Commander
of the French troops in Rome. The chiefs to whom
the control of the enterprise is to be entrusted, are
already nominated, they are Nicotera, a friend and
and brother- in arms of Piscano, and Colonel
Picciani, the author of " Rome and her Popes."
It is also believed that dispositions have already
been made by Francis 11. for his departure from
Naples, and that he intends taking refuge on
board a Russian frigate moored in the bay, so as
'not to give occasion for the allegations of prefer-
ence for Austria, which would infallibly be attri-
buted to him if he were to avail himself of the
services of the Austrian frigate, Schwarzenberg.
The Marquis d'Antonini, Ambassador from the
Two Sicilies to the Conrt of France, gave in his
resignation as soon, it is said, as he heard that his
young master was really in earnest in assenting
to a constitutional government, and has been suc-
ceeded here by Signor Campo D'lsola, as charge
daffaires. The marquis has, at all events, shewn
his consistency in taking this course, and this is
all that can be said for it.

Colonel Turr has quitted Paris, in order to
rejoin his Chief, taking with him a quantity of
rifled cannon and war materiel of every kind,
which he haS purchased in various parts of
France. It is reported that when in this neigh-
bourhood he had an interview with the Emperor,
but I have not heard whether it was through the
colonel that the order came for the millier of
Zouave " knickerbockers" which are said to be on
the point of leaving the tailleurs for the coast of
Calabria or elsewhere. The departure of Colonel
Franconiere, the premier aide-de-camp of Prince
Napoleon, for Tuscany, is also announced, but
What the precise object of the mission of this
latter gentleman may be I have not yet heard.
Alexandre Dumas, senior, is not, by any means,
limiting himself to the character of the historic
grapher-of Garibaldi. He has already; it is said,
got his hands quite fujl of gOier literary solici-.
tudes ; but lot satisfied with writing, in Paris, the
history of his friend Garibaldi ; at Milazzo, the
history of the final combat of Sicily; and, in the
Bay of Naples, a letter addressed to a friend in
that capital, in which he announces the speedy
arrival there of the Dictator, and his hope of soon
having the pleasure of occupying an apartment
in the ROyal Palace—he has hardly arrived at
Marseilles, when he indites from that port an
additional and extremely novel kind of epistle to
another friend; M. Carini. In this last literary
effusion, the world is informed, among other
curious facts, how the great romancer was, or
believed himself to have been, condemned
to the galleys at Naples for his complicity
in certain State offences, and consequently had
little desire to land on the shores of a country in
which, until the new order of things was accom-
plished, he might be exposed to the hazard of
being forced to take an oar in one of the royal
barges! The general amnesty, the return to
power of men like Ulloo, and Ricciardi, and the
presence of Romano so near the helm of affairs,
might, one would have thought, have set this
clever orginal at his ease upon this point; but
the picturesque novelist was unwilling to re-
nounce his title to the designation of a galley
slave until the fall of Francis 11. was afait accom-
pli. Meanwhile, according to public rumour, he
haS been making himself useful since his return
home, in another way still—he is engaged in
executing a commission which he has received to
purchase a cargo of rifles for Garibaldi, with
which he intends to return either to Calabria or
to Sicily, thus earning for, himself, as has been
happily remarked by one who has subjected his
recent conduct to a variety of very humorous
criticisms, the additional title of " Commissary
General."
To return to the subject of the present state of
affairs at Naples, it appears, from the latest
accounts, to be toujour le siterneGeneral
Nunziante, as you have, of course, heard, has
come to this country, and it is i'unwured that
Signori Manna and Greca have been finally
expelled from Naples. Still, there are plenty of
"absolutists around the young monarch,, whn axe
only waiting for the occurrvace of art check to
the progress of Garihalclisni to raise their heads
and come out of "their holes"; and there are
like Wise 'not a few among the revolutionists,
whose liberalism has approached a condition which
is decidedly entitled to be characterised as turbu-
lent. Some of the, troops of the line, a few of
the Grenadiers of the Guards, and a portion of
the Messinese infantry, and especially the foreign
mercenaries, are in a state of the utmost insub-
ordination. The latter are at Nocena, within an
hours journey by rail from Naples, where
they are frightening the population out of their
wits, They have thrown off all discipline, and a
deputation of the inhabitants has waited on the
War Minister, to request that he would disband
the entire body. These mercenaries number at
present about 6,000, and additions are being made
to them evcty day, chiefly Consisting of Austrians
and Bavarians. As long as this mole of recruit-
ing the royal KAY continues to be resorted to, it
can hardly be expected that all doubts will cease
the sincerity 'of the efOrts
to he entertained of
which are being hvid9 by the
Government to
carry 014 ItB PrßieetS of COUStitatiOnalislll. "As
for the revolutiop," says the wr •
iter of the most
recently dated letter from Naples which I have
seen, "it is everywhere,—in the three electoral
pcoanim
ringittliesets all the
s, membersnfpepntinsfavonorafzh:
isisupposedre ;e'
ed
to be favourable, to Italian unity ; in thearmy,
is ';' • ain the
. - vaffise the awe •
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