The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-07-28 00:00:00

Garibaldi's agents, MM. Feletti and Orlando, are.
at present in Liverpool, negotiating the purchase
of several steam-ships for Garibaldi. Our foreign
correspondent has informed us that Garibaldi's.
principal agent was lately seen issuing t.-OM
study in the Palace at Palermo, rubbing his.
hands, as if in high glee with some important
commission which the illustrious Dictator had
confided to him. We understand that the com-
tnission was to purchase a small flotilla of steam-
ships, if possible in Liverpool, and to send.
them out with the utmost despatch. The agent
from Palermo, who is now in this town, was.
also commissioned to purchase- a certain quan-
tity of rifles, and likewise a number of large
cannon. He has been in communication with an
eminent inventor of improved ordnance, and has
come to an arrangement with him to despatch a
number of rifled cannon, of which he intends to
superintend the embarkation in person. Yester-
day, the purchase of another vessel was completed.
For obvious reasons, we do not wish to enter into
1 further particulars, but shall perhaps be at liberty

to do so in a few daye. We arc informed that
Garibaldi is exceedingly urgent to have posses-
sion, without delay, of these recent purchases,
and we doubt not that his agents wilt use every
despatch.

'HE FRENCH COMMERCIAL TREATY,
AND THE INCREASED SPIRIT DUTY.

The following is the statement of the ilfo/z::tetir
Industriel on this subject, referred to by our Paris
Correspondent :

The Commercial Treaty has hardly begun to
operate on the other side of the channel, when
already the English Government, as regards
spirits and wines, is modifying the figures on
which this treaty is based. In doing so, let us
hasten to say the English Government is merely
availing itself of one of the powers which is
reserved to it by the treaty. Thus one of its
stipulations provides that the two governments
shall be at liberty to increase the duties upon
articles forming the object of the convention, on
condition that these duties shall affect to the
same extent the national produce and the foreign
produce. It is this power of which the English
Government has just availed itself. In order to
provide for the expenses of the China war, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer has deemed it
proper to propose an increase (Df the duty upon
spirits, amounting to about 2s. per gallon, or
50 francs per hectolitre: This augmentation,
according to the terms of the treaty, affects, at
one and the same time, English spirits and foreign
spirits.

(EY BRITISH AND IRISH MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)

FRANCE.

PARIS, July 27.

The Constittctio;znel announces that Lord J. Rus-
sell has authorised Lord Cowley to come to some
understanding with France respecting the expe-
dition to Syria. The same paper says, as all the
powers agree upon that ques Lion, the. assent of
Turkey will necessarily follow- France, who in
all this affair has assumed the energetic attitude
most proper to raise the courage of the oppressed
tribes, will also show a moderation which cannot
fail to inspire the European Governments with
confidence, and which is the invariable rale of
her policy.

The Emperor intends to visit Corsica and
Algeria during the summer.

THE FRENCH FUNDS.
P ARI July 27.

3 16 r. Vii.—ln consequence of the article which
appeared in the Constitutimner -of this morning,
the market opened flat. Renter 'were first quoted
68 10, at which price they clotted, showing a
decline of 10c. since yesterday.