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

and absurdities that we are doomed to read dal
after day, and given by these journals as positive
facts, which, to a certain extent, is excusable,
especially when such writers as Dumas indulge
their readers with such ribald nonsense as the
following :—/11 Senzaphore states that Dumas
arrived oti the 31st ultimo, on board the City of
Aberdeen, and Made a short stay of about an
hour in the port of Naples. Immediately the
chief commissioners of police hea±4 that Dumag
was on board they rushed to the steamer, ii
order to see the great romancier, when the for.
lowing colloquy took place :—" Chief Commis-
sioner : Oh, sir, if the people knew that you were
here they would come, and even against your
will, carry you in triumph through the city.
—Dumas : I have promised Garibaldi not to
enter Naples without him."—" And when do you
think he will come?' demanded the Commis-
sioner, in a tone of voice which showed
the profound desire he felt to see Garibaldi.--
Dumas : " Oh' in a fortnight or three weeks at the
most." Chief Commissioner (with great exaltv
tion) : "Oh; so much the better, so much the better!
All here expect hint With great impatience. Do
you know, sir," continued the commissioner, " that
we have received your letter of the battle 01
Milazzo, which came to us by way of Leghorn:
Oh, sir, if you knew the sensation it has created!
One printer alone has published 10,000 copies,
and if you will come on shore you will see it
still selling about the streets." The above is not
a jot more absurd and extravagant than maul
passages in Dumas's first letter, giving an account
of the engagement at Milazzo. One of the para-
graphs stating that a cannon ball parried away
Garibaldi's right stirrup and the sole of his boot,
but most providentially without the foot or leg
receiving the least injury. I am by no means
surprised at Dumas's letters to " Caro Carini,',
and the highly-coloured nature of the same, 0
it is utterly impossible for the French writert
to relate a plain tale, they •must invest it or
dress up their characters with something beyond
what is either natural or probable. The Setna'
phore, determined not to be beaten by Dumasl
states that the soldiers that have returned fro
Sicily, and were present at the battle of Calatet
fimi, relate to their companions that t4aribaldi
eight feet in height, and that during the 6Pgage:
ment he received 150 musket shots in his
shirt, and that at the end of the fight the
unloosened the same, and gave it a good shake,
when all the balls fell at his feet, which, to the
Neapolitans, is as much as to say that Garibaldi
is the devil himself, or a downright saint. I
could give you a dozen similar examples of the
stupidity and trash we are doomed to read io
these journals, but it would be a useless waste of
your space. The journals tell me that the publi'
cation of the Sardinian statute in Sicily was recei'
ved with the greatest enthusiasm ; but my private
letters, which I know to be correct, tell me
different story, which I shall explain in my next
and let me implore your readers not to be too easily
led away by the exaggerated accounts of many
correspondents respecting Sicily and Naples-
From my experience, long residence, and the pre'
sent aspect of the political horizon, I cannot bring
myself to view the future with those happy results
that many anticipate, the reasons of which shall
be given in my subsequent letters. Down to thie
hour, four o'clock, we have no official confirms'
tion of any of the Garibaldini having landed ill
Calabria.

[P.S.—The above was written hastily, on board
the steamer from Callico to Como.]

LATEST NEWS.

(By BRITISH AND IRISH MAGNETIC TELEGRAPII.)

THE FRENCH FUNDS.
PARIS, August 20.

3 40 p.m.—The Bourse remains flat and yen
dull. Rentes closed at 671.90 c., or about the sanle
as on Saturday.

The Paris correspondent of the Express men'
tions a rumour to the effect that the French
Emperor, disappointed in the result of various
diplomatic negotiations, now encourages the
King of Naples to resist the revolution to the
utmost. The same authority writes---‘. I hear It
said, on what I consider to be very good autho-
rity, 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.